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.

Radical Objects: CND Badge

By Andrew Whitehead April 7, 2011 Radical Objects 2 comments

This badge is only small – just 30 millimetres in diameter – but that does not lessen its importance as a social document.

Radical Objects: Luddite Handbill

By Andrew Whitehead April 2, 2011 Radical Objects 2 comments

A fantastic handbill dating from 1812, marking the hanging of Luddite rioters.

Radical Objects: Primitive Methodists

By Alun March 2, 2011 Radical Objects 5 comments

A commemorative plate, which sold in 1907 to mark the centenary of the Primitive Methodist Connection.

Radical Objects: ‘Milk for Spain’

By Andrew Whitehead February 16, 2011 Radical Objects 3 comments

A card token illustrating one of the more noble chapters in British radicalism. During the Spanish Civil War, supporters of the Republican side raised money to help ease the hardship faced by civilians living in areas largely under siege from Franco’s forces.