Union Jill flag?

[sonnyday]

Hi everyone,

Do you, or anyone you know, know the story of the Union Jill flag?
I've seen it in lots of images from protests in the 90's and would love to hear the story about it, meaning of the colours, sightings, anything you can think of!

Image from Twyford Rising: Land and Resistance by Helen Beynon.


Thanks a bunch!

 

[danny la rouge]

No, sorry.

 

[pogofish]

Not heard of that for a long time!

 

[xenon]

This for a book / article / podcast?

 

[Pickman's model]

that really is hideous

 

[Yossarian]

It got a mention on this thread way back in 2004 - somebody described it as "designed by someone from Exodus I think and flown at Castlemorton."

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/ok-its-another-england-flag-thread-but-this-ones-a-bit-different.9213/

 

[JimW]

This is what happens when the colouring book lacks clear instructions.

 

[sonnyday]

It got a mention on this thread way back in 2004 - somebody described it as "designed by someone from Exodus I think and flown at Castlemorton."

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/ok-its-another-england-flag-thread-but-this-ones-a-bit-different.9213/

Thanks! Super helpful

 

[sonnyday]

This for a book / article / podcast?

It's for a research project, not sure yet what it will turn into!

 

[pogofish]

I vaguely remember it wound-up all the usual suspects at the time - "an insult to Great Britishness" and all that. Which was probably what it was meant to do? I think it might have been an early stab at a visual statement of equality and diversity?

 

[Pickman's model]

It's for a research project, not sure yet what it will turn into!

what, a research project at a university for a degree or some sort of other 'output'?

 

[Pickman's model]

I vaguely remember it wound-up all the usual suspects at the time - "an insult to Great Britishness" and all that. Which was probably what it was meant to do? I think it might have been an early stab at a visual statement of equality and diversity?

an early stab at people's eyes

 

[Athos]

The butchers apron from that time Britain tried to colonise Equestria.

 

[sonnyday]

I vaguely remember it wound-up all the usual suspects at the time - "an insult to Great Britishness" and all that. Which was probably what it was meant to do? I think it might have been an early stab at a visual statement of equality and diversity?

Yes! I've heard somewhere that the colours represented different elements, though nobody seems to know exactly what. Something along the lines of nature, feminism, protest..

 

[sonnyday]

what, a research project at a university for a degree or some sort of other 'output'?

sounds like you have some info about it..?

 

[Pickman's model]

sounds like you have some info about it..?

no, i just wondered what sort of research project it was, whether it was one off your own bat or one under the auspices of a university

 

[sonnyday]

no, i just wondered what sort of research project it was, whether it was one off your own bat or one under the auspices of a university

hehe I see - no, it's for my own research, I'm interested in road protests atm and this flag kept coming up in photographs so I got curious

 

[shaneC]

Hi everyone,

Do you, or anyone you know, know the story of the Union Jill flag?
I've seen it in lots of images from protests in the 90's and would love to hear the story about it, meaning of the colours, sightings, anything you can think of!

Image from Twyford Rising: Land and Resistance by Helen Beynon.
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Thanks a bunch!

The union Jill came out of the anti Roads protests at Twyford Down and was flown at various occupations of the site. The Union Jill represents a multi stranded, diverse Briain and not the conventional ecosytem destorying system we had and still have, representated by the Union Jack. For more about Twyford Down check Twyford Rising by Helen Benyon.

 

[8ball]

The union Jill came out of the anti Roads protests at Twyford Down and was flown at various occupations of the site. The Union Jill represents a multi stranded, diverse Briain and not the conventional ecosytem destorying system we had and still have, representated by the Union Jack. For more about Twyford Down check Twyford Rising by Helen Benyon.

Quite a neat way of visually representing a colour-blind Britain.

 

[A380]

Both similar to, and also very different from:

 

[han]

The union Jill came out of the anti Roads protests at Twyford Down and was flown at various occupations of the site. The Union Jill represents a multi stranded, diverse Briain and not the conventional ecosytem destorying system we had and still have, representated by the Union Jack. For more about Twyford Down check Twyford Rising by Helen Benyon.

Yep, I knew a woman in the 90s when I lived in Oxford, called Heather, who had lived on the Newbury occupation who had a Union Jill that she'd made. It ended up being used at Reclaim The Streets etc.

 

[porp]

I'm sorry to say my only knowledge of the Union Jill is via the Two Ronnies. In a bafflingly crap series, called The Worm that Turned, Britain suffers under the yoke of cruel and humourless feminists led by, erm, Diana Dors. You can see their version of the Union Jill at around 2:30 in the linked YouTube. sorry in advance

 

[LDC]

It's the flag equivalent of that mythical dancing community cop at some festival. Shit politics and only loved by hippies and liberals.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I'd have probably worn it in the nineties.