For North Americans, badges are what sheriffs wear, but we’ll manage. Since the vast majority of my badges come from my UK days, that is the term I will use. What are called badges in the UK and Australia are called buttons in Canada and the US. I decided that, for this post, instead of continuing the roughly chronological story of my life, I would instead tell you the stories behind some of the badges in this antique collection of mine.įirst of all – terminology. Looking for those old badges led me to re-discover a musty-smelling bag full of around 175 old badges, buttons and pins of mine sending all kinds of memories whirling through my head. ![]() In my last post, I talked about the trouble that I and my fellow lecturers got into for wearing anti-racism badges at our college.
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