‘DEFEND YOURSELF, UNITY IS STRENGTH’
THE BRIXTON DEFENCE CAMPAIGN (1981-1985)
Further information
This exhibit includes adapted material from published bulletins by The Brixton Defence Campaign [MCKENLEY/3/1] . The exhibition has been written by our researcher-in-residence Virgillo Hunter and is intended to offer an introduction to the work of the Campaign.
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Virgillo Hunter is a History Doctoral Candidate of Modern British History at the University of East Anglia (UEA) with interests in British-Caribbean families, oral history and Caribbean migratory cultures in the Twentieth-century. He is currently writing his dissertation on post-war British-Caribbean families in England between 1948 and 1998 and is one of UEA’s Decolonising Humanities interns for 2021. He also volunteers at the George Padmore Institute--Finsbury Park, London.