This Friday (10th Oct) The People’s History Museum will be hosting an exciting conference, ‘Politics, Posters, Protest: British Political Posters 1914-2014’.

Organised in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A) and Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), in the run up to the general election 2015, curators, campaigners and designers will explore the significance of the poster to the past, current and future British political debate.

Topics will include the history of posters, design as activism, the management and manipulation of billboards, subversions and internet spoofs and the influence of new media on how political posters are conceived and deployed.

Confirmed speakers include Jeremy Sinclair, founder of Saatchi & Saatchi and creator of many of the Conservative Party’s most famous adverts, and Peter Kennard, Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain at the Royal College of Art, best known for the images he created for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in the 1970s-80s.

For full programme and booking details, please visit the website: http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/politics-posters-protest-british-political-posters-1914-2014/

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