Everyone Everywhere: 21 Stories of Mixed Race Britain by Lucas Fothergill

A powerful, interview‑driven portrait of Britain that reveals the overlooked lives and voices shaping its identity across the generations

‘Navigates the complexity of dual identity with profound heart. Reminds us that belonging is a place we are ALL trying to get to’ Zawe Ashton

Everyone Everywhere blends oral history, reportage and storytelling to uncover a major yet neglected thread in Britain’s national story – the experience of its mixed-race communities.

Through dozens of vivid interviews and years of archival research, Lucas Fothergill pieces together an alternative history of the country: one told through the lives of those who have shaped, challenged and redefined what it means to be British.

From the descendants of empire to the artists, activists and everyday people who navigate identity in modern Britain, these are stories of resilience, creativity and belonging. Each chapter offers a self-contained portrait that builds into a sweeping, deeply human narrative of change and connection. Insightful, emotional and resonant, Everyone Everywhere is both a work of history and a vital conversation about who we are – and who we might yet become.

‘A beautifully crafted chorus of mixed-race voices, contemporary and historical, real and imagined. In this wonderfully creative book, Lucas Fothergill captures the longevity, diversity and complexity of racially mixed people and their families in Britain with care and insight, reminding us that their stories are not peripheral, but woven into the very fabric of our nation’ Dr Chamion Caballero, author of Mixed Race Britain in the Twentieth Century 

‘This is not simply a collection about identity; it is about how individuals navigate who they are within a wider political and cultural landscape. It explores the tension between the personal and the structural – between lived experience and the forces that shape it. And that is why this book matters. Because that question – how we understand ourselves in the context of the world around us – is not unique to any one group. It is universal’ Marcus Ryder, author of Black British Lives Matter