The final two decades of the last century may have been when the belief that public protest could be an effective and democratic way of effecting social change received its death blows. But in those decades, hope and the belief that a better world really was possible, was simply part of the fabric of our lives.
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YA1-10 Protest at the Old Bailey in support of the Newham 8 on trial for defending themselves against racist attack. November 1983.
1062-947 Claremont M11 Protest BW Claremont Road, Leyton M11 extension protest.Squatters await eviction for construction of the M11 extension. Claremont Road, Leytonstone (16/8/94?)
1062-652 Claremont M11 Protest BW Claremont Road, Leyton M11 extension protest.MII protesters having invaded site is held by security before being handover to police, Claremont Road, London 16/8/94,
1062-688 Claremont M11 Protest BW contrasty Claremont Road, Leyton M11 extension protest.MII extension protest, Claremont Road '94.
733-7 Anti racist/anti NF march in Whitechapel and Brick Lane. 1987.Dan Jones R holding banner pole.
YA99-17-1 Demonstrators gathered in Brick Lane in support of Afia Begum, a Bengali woman who was threatened with deportation after her husband died in a fire in 1982.
YE9-16A Newham 8 Police show of strength during protests in Newham over the high level of arrest and harrassment of Asian youth, May 1985.
YS21-4 "We Remember", an annual march to comemmorate unexplained deaths at the hands of the police. Stoke Newington, 12 January 1991.
YJ40-4A On January 1st 1987 a young black man, Trevor Monerville, was arrested and held incommunicado in Stoke Newington police station and then hospitalised for emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot.
YJ38-11A-1 On January 1st 1987 a young black man, Trevor Monerville, was arrested and held incommunicado in Stoke Newington police station and then hospitalised for emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot.
V79-9A Demonstration following the shooting of Colin Roach inside Stoke Newington Police Station, Hackney, 12 Feb 1983.
YA60-34-1 Hackney Peace Camp East End activist women in the 1980s.Women's Peace Camp outside Hackney Town Hall.Feb/March 1984.
YA19-13-1 East End activist women in the 1980s.Woman with "No Cruise" placard Linda Hurcombe. Woman centre looking down Richenda Power.
YJ29-15-1 Gladys McGee reads one of her poems during a Tower Hamlets CND peace protest.Shoreditch, February 1987.
B5-14 Feminist demo following a rape case in which the defendant was aquitted following the judge saying that a woman may sometimes say "no" when she means "yes". From Amanda Sebesteyen:.might be Jo Ryan
YE46-31A March in support of gynaecologist Wendy Savage, under attack from older male gynaecologists at the Royal London Hospital.June 1985.
YL92-11-1 Capitalizing on its infamous past, the Ten Bells pub in Commercial Street changed its name to The Jack The Ripper, displaying Ripper memorabilia as décor, November 1987.
YA48-13A Demonstrators occupy a fur shop in Middlesex St in a protest against the fur trade and for animal rights, London Feb 1983.
YS77 Protests outside the Town Hall over evictions and cuts in housing budgets in Hackney.March/April 1991.
YM35-30-1 Housing activists and squatters storm the Hackney Town Hall council chamber during a council meeting.Early 1988
Bsq11-2A Parfett Street Eviction 1973 March on Tower Hamlets council in protest against the eviction of squatters from private rented property that was being kept empty in Parfett Street, Whitechapel, London. 1973.
YS86-3A Protests outside the Town Hall over evictions and cuts in housing budgets in Hackney.March/April 1991.