Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.280
Object Name
Postcard
Date
1979
Description
Black postcard with yellow and white text. This reads "...a nuclear programme would have the advantage of removing a substantial portion of electricity production from the dangers of disruption by industrial action by coal miners or transport workers..." 'From the leaked minutes of a cabinet meeting, Downing St..29 October 1979.' The reverse of this postcard reads "support the miners! no.8 Nucear alternaties. '...on the other hand...opposition to nuclear power might well provide focus for protest...' From the same cabinet minute. Anti-nuclear campaign." There is a Leeds Postcards logo - Leeds Postcards was founded in 1979, with the intention of using postcards âas a political tool and agent for changeâ.
They quickly became well-known, producing some iconic work with activist groups such as the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) and CND branches across the country, and artists including Peter Kennard and Steve Bell. They are still publishing postcards today.
Throughout the 1980s, Leeds Postcards published a number of cards satirising the threat of nuclear war, and celebrating the movement against the bomb.
