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Exhibitions

19th November

10:00 am

Free

Radical Roots: The Huntleys’ Story

2025 celebrates fifty years since Jessica and Eric Huntley opened the Bogle-L'Ouverture Bookshop on Chignell Place, Ealing. Later the bookshop was named after Walter Rodney, the Guyanese scholar and activist. The space, acting as a bookshop, publisher, and creative hub, played a pioneering role in developing Black British culture as we know it today. The organisation FHALMA continues Jessica and Eric’s legacy.

Over the summer, Gunnersbury Park Museum, FHALMA, and Ealing Council ran a series of events with young people exploring what the Huntley’s work means to them. Inspired by this, Gunnersbury Park Museum’s Young Curators have developed this exhibition.

Working alongside young people this summer was refreshing and inspiring. Their curiosity about the world that Eric and Jessica Huntley inhabited — the tense, politicised climate of racism and fascism — sparked powerful discussions about solidarity across South Asian, Black African, Caribbean and other migrant communities.

The parallels they drew between the 1970s and 1980s and their own lived experiences today were striking. For FHALMA, this has been a vital reminder that the messages of resistance, equality and unity found in the Huntley Archives must continue to inform how we educate and inspire future generations.

Beverley Mason, Chief Executive, FHALMA Foundation