The Indian election has seen a re-invention of the country’s most politically iconic headwear.
Radical Objects
Radical Objects: The Black Fist Afro Comb
Sally-Ann Ashton on the evocative symbol of the black fist Afro comb
Radical Objects: April Ashley’s Birth Certificate & Birthday Card
The birth certificate and birthday card of transgender activist, actress and fashion model, April Ashley, whose life is celebrated in an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool until 21 September 2014
Radical Objects: Photo of Mewa Singh’s Funeral Procession 1915
Melanie Hardbattle on a discovery from the history of Asian immigration into Canada, made in the Special Collections and Rare Books department at Simon Fraser University Library
Radical Objects: 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
Radical Objects: 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 Objects: ‘Topic Songbook’
Alan Dein writes of his discovery of a ‘Topic Songbook’ from the 1950s, and its window into the Socialist century
