The London Policeman songsheet, the Miner’s Strike and the Battle of Orgreave by Catherine Robins from the Working Class Movement Library
Tag: Radical Objects
Radical Objects: The Common Man’s Gandhi Cap
The Indian election has seen a re-invention of the country’s most politically iconic headwear.
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: 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
Radical Objects: 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
