Catalogue Number
Temp.2025.3.1
Object Name
postcard
Title
'Let them eat bricks'
People
Cath Tate; Blackrose Press; Margaret Thatcher
Events
Poll Tax protests
Date
1980s
Description
Postcard with a photomontaged image by Cath Tate of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in historical Regency-esque dress holding a bomb. On the bomb is text "UNEMPLOYMENT". In the background is a street of brick houses. Text at the top reads " 'Let them eat bricks' ". Produced during the Anti-Poll Tax campaigns circa 1990.
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