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Anti-Thatcher badge

Object

Badge

Production date

1980-1986

Object number

1990.553

Physical Description

A campaign badge which reads "Stop rate-cappin'...service slashin'...job axin'...money-grabbin'...Thatcher. Hackney, Britain's poorest borough". This type of badge would have been worn by a supporter of the anti- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher campaign.

Cheap and quick to produce and easy to distribute, badges were a popular vehicle for campaign protest from the 1970s onwards.

Material

Steel

Dimension

diameter (Whole): 55mm
height (whole): 4mm

On display?

No

Inscription

"STOP rate-cappin'...service slashin'...job axin'...money-grabbin'...THATCHER. Hackney, Britain's poorest borough"