Professor Stephen Brooke presents a significant and revealing new view of London in the 1980s in his book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City. Recently published by Oxford University Press, London, 1984 explores two conflicting cities during a tumultuous time in London. One side established on radical politics while the other side is driven by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Government. This period was filled with major troubles including racial violence, poverty, and policing, as well as significant struggles for gay and lesbian rights, the economy, neoliberalism and additional global issues of the time.

Stephen Brooke is a Professor as well as the chair of the History department in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University. He is a historian of twentieth-century Britain, with a speciality in politics, gender, sexuality and culture. He is also the author of Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day (Oxford, 2012), as well as articles on the photographer Roger Mayne, on Britain in the 1980s and on themes of love and romance in popular music and film in the twentieth century.