1980s

Cover of Ideal Home: Survival Edition featuring a cartoon of a heavily fortified mansion with a police car outside with a flat tyre with a dart in it

Ideal Home: Survival Edition - Suspect

A book about squatting and related issues published by Brixton based Hooligan Press in 1986.

Class War issue 21 cover shows four men confronting a policeman with the slogan "there ain't nothing like a good game of piggy in the middle!"

Class War #21 1986

An issue of Class War from late 1986 including: 3 page article on riots in St Pauls (Bristol), Broadwater Farm aftermath, riots in Plymouth,…

Class War issue 22 cover showing a graveyard with the slogan "We have found new homes for the rich"

Class War #22 1987

An issue of Class War from early 1987 including: new years' riot round up, A bad case of the Trots (SWP etc), Labour Party, a quite shit anti…

Appendices

BM Blob's appendices to Once Upon A Time There Was A Place Called Nothing Hill.

Postscript: Sometimes We See A Cloud That's Dragonish...

BM Blob's postscript to Once Upon A Time There Was A Place Called Nothing Hill.

An Artistic Swamp: Designing The Emperor's New Clothes

BM Blob on art and gentrification in West London in the late 20th Century.

The Saints: And When The Cops Came Marching In

BM Blob on the tensions on All Saints Road, West London.

The 1987 Carnival and the Limits of an Urban Pacification

BM Blob on the riot at the 1987 Notting Hill Carnival.

Photo of two policemen standing underneath a "Library" sign. The Library is closed, so security shutters are behind them.

Bollocks To Theory?

BM Blob's conclusion to Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys.

A black and white photo of a policeman adjacent to a large bass drum as used in marching bands

All Quiet On The Frontline?

BM Blob on work, unions, unemployment and the 1981 riots.

A "Merseyside" street sign which has been graffitted to read "Merseyslide"

The Strangled Embrace

BM Blob on the 1981 riots in Liverpool.

Seven male police officers on bicycles in a rural setting

Crime And Punishment

BM Blob on policing, prisons and the 1981 riots...