The dons didn't like me during my 1970 scholarship-level interview at Oxford University, so it gives me perverse pleasure to see one of my drawings of the 1981 Brixton Uprising on this dust jacket. I may not be IN the History books, but at least I'm ON one!
Lambeth Archives used the picture first, on their 2005 pamphlet by John Salway. The original is in The Museum of London, along with a larger drawing of the 1990 Trafalgar Square Poll Tax Riot, which spelt the beginning of the end for Margaret Thatcher, just as the 1981 events had ushered in her regime.
Check out the 'Brixton Riots Anais Mika' video on Youtube.
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