Radical Objects: Boer War Postcards

By Administrator March 16, 2012 Radical Objects 1 comment

An illustrated postcard from the Boer war (1899 – 1902), which was a great radical cause at the end of the nineteenth century

Radical Objects: Anti-Poll Tax Badge

By Danny Birchall January 2, 2012 Radical Objects 0 comments

A badge from the 1989/90 sold as part of demonstrations against the Poll Tax, with proceeds supporting the Kemptown anti-Poll Tax Union.

Radical Objects: Bust of Charles Bradlaugh

By Andrew Whitehead November 26, 2011 Radical Objects 4 comments

A ten-inch bronze bust that depicts Charles Bradlaugh, one of the commanding figures of Victorian radicalism.

Radical Objects: Stuff the Jubilee Badge

By Danny Birchall November 25, 2011 Radical Objects 15 comments

This anti-monarchy badge was produced and widely distributed in 1977 by the Socialist Workers Party as part of their ‘Stuff the Jubilee’ campaign.

Radical Objects: Asylum Workers’ Badge

By Administrator November 23, 2011 Radical Objects 0 comments

A badge from the National Asylum Workers Union, founded in 1910, which became the centre of a dispute at Bodmin Asylum in October 1918.

Radical Objects: Banksy’s ‘Monopoly’

By Administrator October 31, 2011 Radical Objects Comments are Disabled

An outsize ‘Monopoly’ board, made (allegedly) by the street artist Banksy and presented to the Occupy London protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

Radical Objects: Anarchist Memorial Card

By David Mazower October 5, 2011 Radical Objects 3 comments

A memorial card for Jacob Schwartz, a member of a small group of Jewish immigrant anarchists in New York associated with Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, who was arrested, beaten in police custody and died soon afterwards in 1918.