
Have a browse of this Hackney History blog which is full of very interesting printed material from a more radical Hackney in the Thatcher years. Interesting notes about the MET and the TSG being a foul duo. Also this appropriation of Tintin for revolutionary socialist purposes!
http://hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin:_Breaking_Free
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