Ed Hall was a young architect designing and building council houses for Lambeth Council in the early 1980’s. The leader of the council, Ted Knight was front and centre in the ideological struggle between local London councils and the Thatcher Government that resulted from Tory Rate Capping. This was when Ed started making banners and since then, he has never stopped. To date he has made over 800 banners for Unions and protest groups across the country. His archive, which has been taken into The Museum of London’s permanent collection, is a visual record of the Left’s struggles over the last 40+ years. As well as providing banners for popular protest, for the last 20 years he has been working closely with the Turner prize winning artist Jeremy Deller who has featured Ed’s work in exhibitions around the world and who has used Ed’s work in a new commission to reimagine the outside of Arsenal’s Emirate’s Stadium.