This memoir from political activist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall details the key influences on his life, from growing up in colonial Jamaica to trying to reshape Britain's political debate against a backdrop of racism and Cold War paranoia.

Stuart Hall didn't consider his life to be particularly interesting.

Hall hadn't set out to write a memoir, thinking that his own life was never as compelling as the events that happened around him.

Hall lived through the end of colonial rule in Jamaica, the tense foundations of multicultural Britain, and the worldwide destruction of WWII and the Cold War. These events forged his identity.

Stuart Hall was a cultural theorist and political activist, born in Jamaica 30 years before it became independent.

Hall was one of the founding thinkers behind British Cultural Studies, a school of thought that analyses how politics and culture in Britain interact with race.

Hall died in 2014, three years before his memoir was published.