A Menu for Change – The South African Deputation to London, 1909
Radical Objects: A menu of a meal at the House of Commons in London in 1909, hosted by the Labour Party leader James Keir Hardie, with Labour MPs and a South African deputation led by W. P. Schreiner
General Will, Radical Theatre Company Memoirs
Jo Stanley from the Unfinished Histories project, writes on the contents of a piece of paper recording a moment in the history of alternative theatre
Radical Object: ‘Topic Songbook’
Alan Dein writes of his discovery of a ‘Topic Songbook’ from the 1950s, and its window into the Socialist century
Radical Object: Casts of Joseph Arch’s Hands
An exploration of the plaster casts of the first labouring man to enter Parliament, and founder of the National Agricultural Labourer’s Union, Joseph Arch, written by Karen Sayer
Radical Object: Radical and Less Radical Effigies of Garibaldi
The Italian patriot and exile, Giuseppe Garibaldi, enjoyed legendary fame in mid-Victorian Britain. Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe explores some artefacts from this period that bear his image
Radical Object: John Lilburne and John Wilkes
This political tract ‘The Tryal of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn’ links indelibly two of the most commanding figures in English radicalism, both of whom won key legal victories against the executive and so helped to establish greater freedom to publish and propagandise
Radical Object: Greetings & Goodwill Messages from Anglo-Jewry to Soviet Jewry
A book published in 1944 with the aim to solicit donations to the Jewish Fund for Soviet Russia, and to place on record the admiration of the authors for the heroic efforts of the Soviet forces in the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe
Radical Object: Our HAP T-Shirt
A t-shirt created by a group of young people from the Brighton Peace & Environment Centre, who attended the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in May, 1999
Radical Object: The British Vegetarian
A copy of the British Vegetarian magazine from 1969
Radical Object: Model Coal Miner
A small brass miner won as a raffle prize during a ‘Miners Gala’ held in Suffolk in 1984 at the peak of the Miners Strike, to raise funds to support the striking miners and their families
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