New Worlds & Technology (1980-1999) Gallery
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Technological advancements and the continual fight for equality dominated the end of the twentieth century. The items in this gallery show key events and milestones where communities and pioneering individuals challenged societal norms through literature and protest.

Photo of Dr Ann Kendall speaking to residents in the Cusichaca valley, 1985

Photo of Anti-nuclear weapons protests at Greenham Common, 1983

Window on Brick Lane by Sally Flood, 1980

Photograph of malnourished children in El Salvador by Steve Smith, c.1980s

Black Eye Perceptions by the Black Ink Collective, c. 1980

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Stella Dadzie, Beverley Bryan and Suzanne Scafe, 1985

Letter from Terry Pratchett to author Henye Mayer, 1997

Opera Wonyosi by Wole Soyinka, 1981

Protest and Survive by E. P. Thompson (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), 1980

Basinii Parmensis poetae Astronomicon : libri II, edizione in fac-simile del codice della Cassa di Risparmio di Rimini (1994)

Making Commitments: London Underground’s Customer Charter (1992)

Oeuvres, by Mme de Ségur (1990)