Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.309
Object Name
Postcard
Title
America Rules UK?
Date
around 1980
Description
A white postcard featuring a design by John Parke titled "Save Britain / Stop Cruise". The design shows barbed wire across a typical UK countryside where a missile is being launches. Red, blue, and black text reads "America Rules UK? / The ONLY British control of Cruise missiles is to say NO! Save Britain, stop cruise!" This postcard was published by the Peace Advertising Campaign in Oxford to protest against the deployment of US nuclear weapons in UK military bases during the Cold War.
