says the Museum of London, it is finally presented an exhibition of the collection the Museum of London collects posters and flags of protesters used at a recent demonstration against public spending cuts.Students University East London goldsmiths already hundreds of items collected in March.
Protesters are now called upon to bring more memorabilia for the Museum's collection on Saturday.
Organizer of guy Atkins said the idea was, demonstrators that give chance, such as history, she recalls to affect.
The main demonstration on 26 March was peaceful, but a small group broke and attacked banks and shops, that infringes on 214 arrests and 16 people, including 13 police.
June Purvis, a historian who wrote a biography about the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, said that the protest as a significant moment in the history of the country in memory would remain.
"The fact shows that 250,000 people came out the extent of public feeling", she said. "But I think that it was marred by the violence of the anarchists."
The goldsmiths students were used from more than 1,000 posters with images of posters in suffragettes and poll tax protests at the event.
The Museum of London Chief Curator, Dr. Cathy Ross, said finally there would be an exhibition of the collection.
"The characters are individual, not only standard slogans," she said.
"We think it was good that the people on the March to decide what we collect."
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