Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols Album Poster, 1977

A riff on the notorious album cover, this promotional poster features the same acid-bright colours and ransom-note text. Jamie Reid’s artwork for the Sex Pistols was integral to their image and caused almost as much controversy. John Mortimer QC helped successfully fight an indecency ban on the album and the posterPhotograph: PR

Buzzcocks promotional poster for Beating Hearts, 1979

Artist and sometime punk singer Linder Stirling’s most famous artwork adorns the cover of the Buzzcocks’ 1977 single 'Orgasm Addict': a collage of a naked woman with eyes for nipples and an iron for a face. This lesser-known image breaks with punk tradition for a starker, more figurative approach. It was originally distributed solely through the Secret Buzzcocks Fan ClubIllustration: Linder Sterling

Alternative T.V, How Much Longer / You Bastard Single Poster, 1977

A silk-screened poster for Alternative TV’s second single released on the Deptford Fun City label. Mark Perry of ATV was also the editor of Sniffin’ Glue, the most famous punk fanzine, which had given away the group’s first single, 'Low Lies Limp', as a flexi-disc. This relatively sophisticated poster is a riff on the single cover, which had the group playing on the television

The Clash, Clash City Rockers / Jail Guitar Doors Poster, 1978

The Clash seldom appeared on their tour or record posters, even when the subject, as here, was blatant self-mythology. By 1978, their artwork had changed from standard punk cut-and-paste collage to a less frenetic style utilising colour and found imagery. The graffiti-style lettering on the bus remains primitive and punkish; a group referencing its roots even as it leaves them behind

Poster advertising the Anti Nazi League Carnival 2, 24 September 1978

The Anti Nazi League were formed to combat extreme-right organisations like the National Front, who targeted hard-core punk gigs as potential recruiting grounds. 100,000 people attended the second Anti-Nazi League carnival in Brockwell Park, in Brixton, on 24 September 1978 to hear Elvis Costello, Sham 69 and reggae groups Aswad and Misty. Russian Constructivism meets Modist graphics in this striking poster for the eventIllustration: 3 Politics Left Poster

Cortinas – Independance Day/Defiant Pose Single, 1977

The Cortinas were a short-lived Bristol-based punk group who signed to the Step Forward label. Gleefully juvenile imagery was a constant trope of punk rebellion, and here a young punk throws up at the dinner table behind his unknowing parents. The bright colours and high contrast of the silk-screened poster to promote the single add an unreal edge to the montage

Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the U.K. tour publication, 1976

Featuring London punk icon, Soo Catwoman, this very rare one-off magazine was designed by Jamie Reid for sale on the Sex Pistols’ 1976 Anarchy tour. It features graphics and slogans from Reid’s political magazine, Suburban Press, which he founded in 1970. Reid remains the most well-known and influential graphic artist of the punk eraIllustration: Jamie Reid

Buzzcocks, Orgasm Addict Poster, 1977

Orgasm Addict was the Buzzocks first single following the departure of Howard Devoto and signing to United Artists. The poster is an expanded version of the single sleeve with an in-your-face Linder Sterling collage tastefully typeset by Malcolm Garrett creating a brash punk statement. Buzzcocks guitarist/singer Pete Shelley said: 'It’s exactly what you want for a record sleeve. As soon as you see it you can’t get the image out of your head. It was all pretty topshelf back in 1977'. Linder has explained how she made the collage 'in a Salford bedroom, I had a sheet of glass, a scalpel and piles of women’s mags' and that 'the iron came from an Argos catalogue and the female torso came from a photographic magazine called Photo' Illustration: Linder Sterling

National Front Young, Don’t Waste Your Life, 1970’s

In the late 1970s, the National Front promoted various national youth services, and often used the inflammatory political ephemera from the time, including recruitment posters that show just how much the extreme right, as well as the radical left, utilised punk graphics and imagery in their attempts to attract Britain’s disenfranchised youth. 'You could go to certain punk gigs, Sham 69, say, and just as likely to be handed a National Front leaflet as an Anti-Nazi League one. It was a very aggressive and polarised political time moment as well as a cultural one. Those ideas of the extreme were always in the room'Photograph: PR

The Vibrators, London Girls Single Poster, 1977

Poster advertising London Girls with Stiff Little Fingers as its B-side. The group Stiff Little Fingers took their name from this track.