London's Ours! Images from the Greater London Council 1981–1986

In the early 1980s, London's city-wide authority, the Greater London Council, embarked upon aradical experiment in how to run the capital, which transformed British politics. Campaigning and energetic, the GLC made extensive use of poster campaigns, public art and popular events to take aim against racism, sexism, nuclear war – and eventually, their own abolition. This book documents the remarkable visual culture of the GLC, with over 250 images. Sometimes provocative, frequently humorous, it provides a unique picture of a remarkable period in British politics and of London itself.