ABSTRACT
This chapter tells a tale of an autobiographical epiphany that led to the writer concentrating on a more historical perspective in their life and work as well as focusing their energies, as a writer and journalist, on ‘Black and Asian artists in London’. From the title of a magazine (Country Life) the writer extrapolates and explores the particularly urban (rather than suburban or rural) way we might tend to explore history. The chapter ends by working its way to one of the book’s key references in citations from Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History.
