Kensington & Chelsea

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Kensington and Chelsea

Comments on Indian & York stone: slave labour, aesthetic life style, quarrying and butterflies

The following ramble is how the ex- King Mob building collective slowly but surely…

Balls!

A spoof article by two members of King Mob submitted to "some trendy periodical" to raise money to print King Mob Echo.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary

A Drift on Germaine Greer, Feminism and Modern-Day Shameless Ranterism - David Wise

King Mob's graffiti vs Germaine Greer's mortgage, the wider context of West London in the 1970s…

Same thing day after day graf

The late 1960s and King Mob

The English Situationists and the Newcastle rebellion join forces. Similarities and differences. Reading Marx, Lefebvre and Hegel. Black Mask and…

The Notting Hill Riots (1976) - Martin Wright

Martin Wright on the Notting Hill riots of August 30 1976. From Anarchy (second series) #21.

1958 Notting Hill race riots.

1958 Notting Hill race riots

Ron Ramdin's history on the 1958 Notting Hill 'race riots', which saw mass racial violence last for several days over a wide area of West London…

Person trapped in Grenfell Tower

The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??

The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social…

Grenfell Tower fire

Smothered by regeneration: the Grenfell Tower fire

Tenants at Grenfell Tower repeatedly warned the council and its management organisation about fire safety risks before a deadly blaze engulfed…

Once upon a time there was a place called Nothing Hill Gate…

A personal account covering 20 years of working class history in Notting Hill, including the…

1976: The Notting Hill Carnival riots

An account of the riots at the popular West London carnival which were sparked by the arbitrary harassment and arrests of young black attendees…

Beating back Mosley in Notting Hill, 1958 - Baker Baron

A Notting Hill resident recounts his story of fighting racists and fascists in West London.