"For the cost of one Trident we could have a decent National Health Service postcard" [Temp.2024.11.21]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.11.21

Object Name
Postcard

Title
For the cost of one Trident we coud have a decent National Health Service

Place
London; UK

People
NHS

Date
1980s

Description
Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a huge queue outside St Thomas' Hospital, opposite the Houses of Parliament with Big Ben visible in the background. Red text reads "For the cost of one Trident we coud have a decent National Health Service".


On the back there is a Leeds Postcards logo. Leeds Postcards was founded in 1979, with the intention of using postcards “as a political tool and agent for change”. They quickly became well-known, producing some iconic work with activist groups such as the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW) and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (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.

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