Exhibition | 2023 Banner Exhibition

Revamping a quarter of PHM’s main galleries, the 2023 Banner Exhibition gives a unique insight into movements from the 1889 Great London Dock Strike to the 2019 climate strikes, with several banners going on display for the first time.

With their memorable messages and motifs, these banners are striking representations of groundbreaking moments of protest and the people united by them.

Find out more about the banners on guided tours with museum staff throughout the year.  Sign up to our free e-newsletter to keep up to date.

Family Friendly exhibition, suitable for all ages.

Families!  Collect your Banner Bingo activity from the Info Desk on arrival.

Banners in Main Gallery One:

• Save Me banner, 2019
• Union and Victory banner, 1889
• National Union of Agricultural Workers Shropshire Branch, around 1950
• Ascott Martyrs quilt, 1873
• National Federation of Women Workers banner, around 1960s-1970s
• Independent Order of Rechabites banner, 1906
• Merchant Shipping Bill banner, around 1884
• Central Labour College banner, 1912
• No More War Movement Chiswick Branch, around 1930
• National Unemployed Workers’ Movement banner, around 1930
• Country Standard banner, around 1980
• Printers Demand Arms for Spain banner, around 1936

Banners in Main Gallery Two:

• Confederation of Health Service Employees banner, 1978
• Sale Moor Anti-Poll Tax Union banner, 1989
• Young Communist League London District Solidarity with Chile banner, around 1974
• Disabled People Against Cuts banner, 2015
• Breakthrough UK 20th anniversary banner, 2017
• Pennine Peace Magic Wymyn banner, date unknown
• St Albans and District Nottinghamshire Miners’ Strike Support Committee banner, around 1984
• Pendleton Co-operative Society Broughton Branch banner, around 1920
• Mark Ashton Trust banner, 1988
• Which Tomorrow? banner, 1996
• The Typographical Association Preston Branch banner, around 1870s
• Ipswich Dockers Union banner, around 1890
• Dockers Union Export Branch banner, around 1890