Andrew Simpson

Crown Square, circa 1981 This is Crown Square, and back in the 1970s and 80s it was one of the places where demonstrations finished up....

I can’t now remember if the Peace Pledge was the document on the table, or just an application to join CND. The original Peace Pledge d...

Now the cynic will quip, that at the end of a march or demonstration there is just unfilled hopes and sore feet. The end of the demon...

Now, demonstrations present the photographer with plenty of opportunities to capture the moment. These come from an Anti-Cruise Miss...

For a historian I was pretty lax in recording the details of pictures l took in the 1970s and early 80s.    Anti Cruise  demonstrator, 1981...

Now, there is a lot of waiting about during a demonstration. It’s the bit you usually forget, in favour of the noise, the good humour, ...

It was the first demonstration I had been on for years and had been called to protest at the new Conservative Governments’ policy of austeri...

From a distance of nearly 4 decades I have no idea where in Birmingham this was, other than that the demonstration seemed to meander throug...

It is 43 years ago that Glyn and Hazel brought back this poster from Paris. It celebrated two decades of political activity by the Unified S...

For many of us the 1980s was a scary time. Uppermost in our concerns were the new generation of nuclear weapons and their delivery sy...

1985 The campaign badge has been around a long time. It is one of those instant bits of political activity which makes the point chea...

The early 1980s seemed a scary place. The two Super Powers had decided that they didn’t like each other all over again, and to add to t...

This is the story of one photograph from one demonstration. The march was called to draw attention to the new generation of nuclear wea...

It was a slow day on Beech Road yesterday, and with little interest in sitting in the garden or watching yet another box set I took to read...

I should not be surprised I suppose that the passage of nearly 40 years has made it difficult for me to name some of the people on the ...

The three lads will now be grown up and I wonder what memories they have of that day in Birmingham. The year was 1983 and this was on...

Today I would never think of photographing young people, but 35 years ago they were no less a valid subject than any of the thousands that ...

The three lads will now be grown up and I wonder what memories they have of that day in Birmingham. The year was 1983 and this was on...