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
Radical Objects
Radical Objects: My Mother’s Saucepan
Saucepan used to cook food for imprisoned members of the African National Congress on trial in South Africa during the late 1950’s
Radical Objects: Newsletter in Support of Mining Families
Kentish Town Castlehaven ward, London – Labour Party newsletter from 1984, requesting support for mining families
Radical Objects: Peace News/BWNIC Poster
Magazine cover from the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign (BWNIC), members of which were arrested for Incitement to Disaffection during the 1970’s
Radical Objects: Boer War Postcards
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
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
A ten-inch bronze bust that depicts Charles Bradlaugh, one of the commanding figures of Victorian radicalism.
