Glasgow Politics and Popular Protest
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 6,000 objects related to politics and popular protest in Glasgow. These date from 1790 to the present. This collection represents many forms of political activity. It is particularly strong in material related to 19th and 20th century franchise reform, the women’s suffrage movement, trade unionism, socialist politics and co-operative and temperance movements. It encompasses banners, textiles, costume, paintings, posters, prints, drawings, sculpture and ceramics. The collection also contains badges, medals, books, postcards, furniture, leaflets and other ephemera. Political parties are well represented and include items related to socialist parties during the Red Clydeside era, from the 1910s to 1930s, and to significant socialist figures such as Keir Hardie, John Maclean and James Maxton. There is also material associated with the Scottish National Party, Liberal Party, Social Democrat Party and Conservative Party, and with the opening of the Scottish Parliament. Further material relates to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, the Clarion clubs and the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, and to anti-apartheid organizations, anti-nuclear protest, the peace movement, protest against the poll tax and the miner’s strike of 1984–5.
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Anti-War Movement and Pacifism
Friendly and Beneficial Societies
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