Learn from the past to create the future
Resistance – A touring exhibition and DIY archiving project – documenting and celebrating UK grassroots movements for social change.
Learn from the past to create the future.
Some photos of recent exhibitions.
If you would like to support and help develop the Resistance Exhibition/Archive, then please donate whatever you can afford. This is a labour born of love and the belief that our history matters.
The Resistance Exhibition is a landmark multimedia showcase of 40+ years of Protest & Social Change Movements in the UK, featuring renowned photography, rare video footage, and artefacts. From the …
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The Resistance Exhibition Tour launched in May 2024 and continues its nationwide events until September 2025. The RESISTANCE exhibition is showing at: SWINDON COMMUNITY HUB, 36 The Parade, Swindon SN1 …
On February 25 2025 we presented Resistance at the Green Events and Innovations Conference in Royal Lancaster London, hosted by A Greener Future.
At the link below is a prototype for the Resistance Archive. Feel free to try it. In the coming months and years it will grow to many thousands of items and become an ever expanding social history of protest in the UK.
Are you storing protest materials from your past the past of your family and friends?
Photos, videos, flyers, newsletters, other disobedient objects?
When we launch the Resistance Archive (linked above), you will be able to join it, and everyone will be able to find the materials you have already uploaded, plus any you add in the future, and contact you about them.
In the meantime, to get you started, we have produced a guide to online archiving.
Download the Guide
In the guide you can learn how to put your precious items online making them safe, accessible and inspirational.
Here is a selection of the images we have exhibited:
PLEASE NOTE: The copyright for all photos is held by the individual photographer. For permission to use them please contact the copyright owner.
If you have Resistance photos to add to the archive, please contact us.
Some of our featured photographers. Names link to their own sites:
| Jenny Matthews | Adrian Arbib |
| Thabo Jaiyesimi | Kristian Buus |
| Christopher John Ball | Denise Laura Baker |
| Jess Hurd | David Hoffman |
| Lily Poveda | Guy Smallman |
| Nigel Dickinson |
