This collection gathers texts, photographs, newspaper articles, witness accounts, and ephemera relating to the Brixton uprisings in 1981 and related uprisings in Birmingham, Croxteth and Southall. The collection comprises community newsletters, grass roots newspapers, police reports, liberation and defence campaign literature, press cuttings and extracts from right wing inclined national tabloids and leftist pamphlets.
Documents relating to the Brixton uprisings in 1981 and related uprisings in Birmingham and Southall
Archive Collection
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- ReferenceGB 1443 Uprisings
- Dates of Creation1981
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description7 folders and 3 oversized folders
Scope and Content
Access Information
This collection is available for research. Readers are strongly urged to contact Black Cultural Archives in advance of their visit. Some of the material may be stored off-site and advance notice of at least a week is needed in order to retrieve this material.
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Custodial History
The collection has been gathered together by Black Cultural Archives' archivists during cataloguing in January 2009 to bring together the number of small deposits on this subject.