David Hoffman
Protest!
Introduction by Duncan Campbell
From the forward to Protest! by Duncan Campbell, The Guardian’s former crime correspondent, who died in May 2025.
David Hoffman’s Protest! brings together sobering, startling and sometimes joyous pictures and insights from half a century of documenting protest by “riot photographers’ photographer” David Hoffman.
From the Suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s. From the Jarrow March in 1936 to the Miners’ Strike of 1984. From the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s activities from 1957 onwards to the anti-Vietnam war demonstration outside the United States London embassy in 1968 and the Greenham Common camps of 1981 onwards.
From the battle of Cable Street against the British Union of Fascists in 1936 to the Anti-Nazi League marches and Rock Against Racism open-air concerts four decades later. From the million marchers against the Iraq war in 2003 in London to the massive turnouts across the country two decades later against the war in Gaza. Protest has been a vital and constant part of the fabric of British society.
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