Flatpack ’68 Cycling Map

As part of Birmingham 68, Flatpack Film Festival’s project exploring the city’s colourful past, we worked together to create an engaging and accessible solution to bringing the amazing research they’d done to life. We listened through several hours of archive material from Flatpack’s book This Way to the Revolution to curate a map of memories for people to explore.

The end result was a 15-mile bike ride passing through key locations in the story of ‘New Birmingham’ coming to be: The Great Hall at the University of Birmingham which was occupied by over 1000 students for 8 days in late ‘68, the Digbeth Church that became a biker coffee bar and the spot where anti-racist protesters marched against Enoch Powell among others.