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In 1834, six Dorset farm labourers were transported to an Australian prison colony for swearing an oath of allegiance to their trade union #MRC50 #50ObjectFriday https://t.co/bw60SAYonV
Problems with the Houses of Parliament are nothing new, as discovered by Caroline Shenton (No.37) #MRC50 #50ObjectFriday https://t.co/bw60SAXQyn
No.35 A reminder of a time when childhood play was simple and fun. The Elastoplast Hospital’, features card pull-outs of equipment, staff, patients and parents. We couldn't resist building our own! #MRC50 #50ObjectFriday https://t.co/bw60SAXQyn
#50ObjectFriday Object 28 is well-known to MRC visitors, having featured in two exhibitions last year. Chosen by the MRC's Naomi Shewan, this Chile Solidarity Campaign poster is just one of many CSC documents we hold at the MRC. @WarwickSMLC @WarwickHistory @warwicklibrary
#50ObjectFriday - Object 27, nominated by Alan Stewart, is a lantern slide of Faustovo village, Russia, c.1923/4. Alan's great-grandfather, Bob, a communist and Comintern agent, is on the picture, with his wife Margaret and daughter Annie. @warwicklibrary @WarwickHistory
#50ObjectFriday - number 26 was chosen by @crailmark14 of @StudyLabHistory: a registration book (1901) for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Cabinetmakers, and Joiners. These are great sources for family historians and labour historians. @warwicklibrary @WarwickHistory
#50ObjectFriday - half-way through the objects, we have the MRC's oldest trade union document: a handwritten book of rules and minutes from the Journeymen Cabinet Makers of Belfast (1788). This beautiful, fragile, item was chosen by Pierre Botcherby
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#50ObjectFriday Object 24 comes from @Edda_Nicolson at @wlv_uni - a commemorative booklet for a @The_TUC Parliamentary Committee dinner in 1911. It is full of satirical cartoons, including this of Ben Tillett, whose papers you can view at the MRC! @uniofwarwick @warwicklibrary
#50ObjectFriday Object 23 is chosen by Emma Robertson @chochistory from LaTrobe University in Australia. Taken from the trade union journal Railway Review, these cartoons satirise women's employment during WW1. Emma wrote on these in the 2019 issue of @labourhistoryoz journal!
#50ObjectFriday Object 22 was chosen by the MRC's Lizzie Morrison: Valentine's Anglo-Jewish Almanac, 1892-4. We have many records relating to London's Jewish East End, and this has been used by @WarwickHistory for undergrad teaching on race, ethnicity, and migration in Britain.
#50ObjectFriday This week's object is chosen by Jessica Wardhaugh (@WarwickSMLC ): a tiny, but powerful, French Resistance flyer created by the Comité Feminin du Front National which, despite its name, was close to the French Community Party @PCF @PCF_monde
#50ObjectFriday This week's object, 20, was nominated by Meleisa Ono-George: a 1976 photo of the Brixton Black Women's Group from our Minority Arts Archive. 'The women in the photo seem to range in age and maybe even in motivation, but the causes are shared'.
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#50ObjectFriday Object 19 was nominated by Caroline Coon, artist and founder of @Release_drugs . It is Release's first 'bust card' - a pocket guide to your rights and the relevant laws if you're arrested - from 1967, a period when the Met were targeting illicit drug use.
#50ObjectFriday As 2024 begins, we continue our weekly object reveal from our anniversary exhibition. Object 17 was chosen by Ant Brewerton (formerly of @warwicklibrary !): a concert ticket for a @thespecials Rock Against Racism gig in Leamington Spa!
Comment if you were there!
#50ObjectFriday Our final object before Christmas is chosen by @BeckieRuthrford. It is a 'how to' guide for Disablement Income Group members about TV and radio interviews: what to expect, how to dress, how to speak, where to look...
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#50ObjectFriday Object 15, chosen by @StageKirstie, is the National Union of the Deaf's 'Blueprint for the Future', found in the @The_TUC collection here at the MRC. Kirstie described the NUD as a 'fascinating and important' case study for modern British history
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