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This is a photograph of Tom Bell's suitcase which was used to smuggle illegal materials into South Africa in 1970

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This is a photograph of Tom Bell's suitcase which was used to smuggle illegal materials into South Africa in 1970

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Anti-Apartheid Stickers. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Selection of stickers, some of which were stuck on fruit in supermarkets or on bank tills

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Selection of stickers, some of which were stuck on fruit in supermarkets or on bank tills

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Anti-Apartheid Stickers. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Stickers. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Sticker. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Products of Apartheid not sold here sticker

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Anti-Apartheid Stickers. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Free South Africa: African National Congress

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Free South Africa: African National Congress

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Anti-Apartheid Sticker. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Shell Out of Namibia and South Africa: No Fuel For Apartheid

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Shell Out of Namibia and South Africa: No Fuel For Apartheid

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Anti-Apartheid Sticker. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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These stickers were put on products in supermarkets that sold South African produce.

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Anti-Apartheid Sticker. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Danger Contaminated with Apartheid: Boycott South African Goods Stickers

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Danger Contaminated with Apartheid: Boycott South African Goods Stickers

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Danger contaminated with apartheid sticker

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Anti-Apartheid Sticker. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Mug. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Mug. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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The text reads: Mathews Ntshiwa, a Black South African Factory worker, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for having the words 'RELEASE NELSON MANDELA' inscribed on his tea mug. In court he said 'I only used to drink tea out of the mug.' FREE NELSON MANDELA AND ALL SOUTH AFRICAN AND NAMIBIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS!

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Anti-Apartheid Mug. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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'Every effort to isolate South Africa adds strength to our struggle' Nelson Mandela

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'Every effort to isolate South Africa adds strength to our struggle' Nelson Mandela

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JH: The value I guess of these artefacts and the legacy of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is how much one can learn from the depth of it, that it can inspire students, but it's also a research resource that people can learn from. Part of my job is to help facilitate inspiration and a deeper understanding of social injustice and human rights abuses and why they might happen, how one can prevent them from happening again which campaigns might work and which international bodies can help.

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JH: The value I guess of these artefacts and the legacy of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is how much one can learn from the depth of it, that it can inspire students, but it's also a research resource that people can learn from. Part of my job is to help facilitate inspiration and a deeper understanding of social injustice and human rights abuses and why they might happen, how one can prevent them from happening again which campaigns might work and which international bodies can help.

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Anti-Apartheid Mug. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Mug. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Selection of badges from various organisations. Some are from local councils and one is beautifully handmade. All target the various ways the apartheid regime affected the South African people.

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Selection of badges from various organisations. Some are from local councils and one is beautifully handmade. All target the various ways the apartheid regime affected the South African people.

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The audio Clip is taken from an oral history interview with Christabel Gurney. 5th October 2022

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This audio clip is of Christabel Gurney discussing the production and distribution of 1 million 'Free Nelson Mandela' badges

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This audio clip is of Christabel Gurney discussing the production and distribution of 1 million 'Free Nelson Mandela' badges

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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This 'No to Botha' badge was worn during a protest at Chequers when P.W. Botha visited the UK in 1984

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This 'No to Botha' badge was worn during a protest at Chequers when P.W. Botha visited the UK in 1984

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The audio Clip is taken from an oral history interview with Christabel Gurney. 5th October 2022

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This audio clip is of Christabel Gurney remembering protesting P.W. Botha's visit to the UK

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This audio clip is of Christabel Gurney remembering protesting P.W. Botha's visit to the UK

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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'An Injury to One is An Injury to All' S.A Congress of TU

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'An Injury to One is An Injury to All' S.A Congress of TU

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An injury to one is an injury to all badge

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Free The South African Railworkers. No Apartheid Executions

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Free The South African Railworkers. No Apartheid Executions

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Free the south african railworkers badge

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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CG: That is lovely, isn't it? And that's an arrow and a rifle. Some of these badges were produced by the ANC and some by anti-apartheid. Yeah. That says ANC it looks homemade. It's lovely.

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Anti-Apartheid Badge. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection

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Image courtesy of the TUC Library Collection, London Metropolitan University.

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This is a poster campaign that was used to to highlight the impeding execution of Solomon

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This is a poster campaign that was used to to highlight the impeding execution of Solomon

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JH: There are certain names that I remember from being a student in the eighties. I read about him (Solomon Mahlangu) sadly, he was executed in 1979.

JH: This campaign didn't succeed Solomon Mahlangu was 22 when he was executed. He was a student who'd witnessed in 76, an atrocity. And it says here that over a thousand people were shot women, many, many women and children and unarmed demonstrators in Soweto. I think he left South Africa to train to take on military training and then came back.

JH: But three days after he came back, he was surrounded by the police and arrested. There was a shootout, and he was arrested. He was on trial for being as far as they were concerned, a terrorist but you would say Freedom Fighter. The list of people, high-level people, who asked for clemency. The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid said, you know, that this is justified taking up arms it is justified. The United Nations and General Assembled Commonwealth, the French president, and the West German foreign minister. I think a list of senior people calling to stop the execution.

JH: There would have been vigils outside South Africa House, and there seemed to be constant vigils and protests to try and draw attention to these sorts of executions.

Extracts are taken from an oral history interview with Jeff Howarth, LondonMet Academic Liaison Librarian for our university’s TUC Library Collection, and have been edited for clarity. October 12th 2022.

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Image courtesy of the TUC Library Collection, London Metropolitan University.

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'There's a Place for Everyone in South Africa.' 1970

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'There's a Place for Everyone in South Africa.' 1970

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JH: The TUC Library has collected from the TUC’s own program and campaigning offices. Their staff, I presume, would have collected this stuff as part of their work and then handed it over to the library. Some of this stuff is, I assume collected as it's part of research into, I'm assuming, white immigration from Britain into South Africa. There are all these, pamphlets that are from the Department of Immigration in Pretoria.

JH: South African companies would, try and recruit, uh, graduates. They'd have stalls at graduate fairs. this is, from the anti-apartheid movement, say saying to students, don’t go to South Africa. you will be supporting the regime there. It is a cartoon depicting South Africa as a sort of theme park with lions, elephants, giraffes, sunshine and beaches, and people being tanned on beaches. And then the reality behind that for the majority of South Africans are being brutally policed.

Extracts are taken from an oral history interview with Jeff Howarth, LondonMet Academic Liaison Librarian for our university’s TUC Library Collection, and have been edited for clarity. October 12th 2022.

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There's a place for everyone in South Africa

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Image courtesy of the TUC Library Collection, London Metropolitan University.

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JH: Yes. Um, so this is 'Speeches to Court' by Nelson Mandela. It's called 'I Accuse' and it has the famous photo of him in this prison, in his prison uniform. And, it says at the bottom, you know when you've finished, 'Please Pass It On, but there are no details of the publisher.  So it's presumably, covertly passed around within South Africa.

Extracts are taken from an oral history interview with Jeff Howarth, LondonMet Academic Liaison Librarian for our university’s TUC Library Collection, and have been edited for clarity. October 12th 2022.

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Image courtesy of the TUC Library Collection, London Metropolitan University.

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Selection of leaflets and flyers courtesy of the TUC Library Collection, London Metropolitan University.

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Selection of Leaflets and Flyers Supporting the Boycott and Anti-Apartheid Movements

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Selection of Leaflets and Flyers Supporting the Boycott and Anti-Apartheid Movements

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JH: the anti-apartheid movement, I think, was born out of the boycott movement, which was, um, uh, I think it started in South Africa, um, from, you know, from the sort of the protest movement in South Africa that, that, that then became, um, you know, became illegal and, and, um, the, ANC moved to, to London. Um, but I think, you know, the boycott movement was, uh, um, very, very, I guess community activism, but with the Labour Party and the TUC amongst others.

JH: The value I guess of these artefacts and the legacy of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is how much one can learn from the depth of it, that it can inspire students, but it's also a research resource that people can learn from. Part of my job is to help facilitate inspiration and a deeper understanding of social injustice and human rights abuses and why they might happen, how one can prevent them from happening again which campaigns might work and which international bodies can help.

Extracts are taken from an oral history interview with Jeff Howarth, LondonMet Academic Liaison Librarian for our university’s TUC Library Collection, and have been edited for clarity. October 12th 2022.

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Anti-Apartheid poster. Curtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection 

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Durham Students' Union: Tell the University Where it Can Put its Investment in Apartheid - Vote for the Motion at Your JCR Meeting

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Durham Students' Union: Tell the University Where it Can Put its Investment in Apartheid - Vote for the Motion at Your JCR Meeting

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Audio Clip from Oral history interview with Christabel Gurney. 5th October 2022

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This audio clip captures Christabel's memories of the Don't Buy Tesco's Apartheid Goods poster, how and where it was used and the power such a simple poster could achieve.

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Anti-Apartheid Poster. Curtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection 

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Anti-Apartheid Badges. Courtesy of Christabel Gurney Private Collection 

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“Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Material Culture, Heritage and Now”.

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“Anti-Apartheid Legacy: Material Culture, Heritage and Now”.

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This project focuses on the material culture that is derived from the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). The project examines the ways in which objects and material artefacts unfold the legacy of AAM. New interpretations of AAM heritage and its contemporary relevance are illuminated through archival study, visual and oral histories, and documentation of commonplace artefacts collected over the years from various people involved in the AAM in Britain.
These objects have been organised into categories that reflect their prominence and use during the movement, however, their position on the page does not refer to a value hierarchy of either object or oral history.

The images and quotes presented here are courtesy of Christabel Gurney, activist, historian, and editor of Anti-Apartheid News between 1969 to 1980; Tom Bell, who was recruited to smuggle into South Africa Bucket Bombs (harmless devices) that exploded ANC leaflets into the air; Jeff Howarth, LondonMet Academic Liaison Librarian for our university’s TUC Library Collection.