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"Smile with Eccles Morning Star advertisement" [NMLH.2012.60.4.24]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2012.60.4.24

Object Name
Poster

Title
Smile with Eccles / Eccles' Calypso for the 1970 Tour

People
Sid Brown; Frank Brown; Eccles

Events
Protest of apartheid; Protest of cricket matches with Apartheid South Africa; Apartheid; 1970 South Africa cricket tour

Date
1970

Description
A small Morning Star poster, titled "Smile with Eccles" and featuring a series of cartoons and verses. Orange, with a central box in white featuring the black and white cartoons.


Eccles was the name given to the brother-duo Sid and Frank Brown who drew cartoons for the Morning Star newspaper, which was affiliated with the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). The cartoons featured are a series of illustrations of the verses, which form a protest poem against 'apartheid cricket', meaning a tour match between the England cricket team and South Africa. Underneath the cartoons reads "Eccles' Calypso for the 1970 Tour".

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