WE WERE THERE (BODLEY HEAD) (HB)

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s Britain was in tumult: rocked by Margaret Thatcher’s radical economic policy, the rise of the National Front, widespread civil unrest. We Were There brings into the spotlight for the first time extraordinary Black lives in once-rich cities now home to failing industries: the foundries of Birmingham, the docks of Liverpool and Cardiff, the mills of Bradford. Together, these voices and stories rewrite our idea of Black British culture. We Were There is about incorporating a vastly broader range of Black Britons into the fabric of our national story.