If knocking on doors and shoving pamphlets through letterboxes were efficient ways to change minds, Britain would have a lot more Jehovah's Witnesses and a Labour government.
A series of pamphlets on the attitudes of swing voters in the South of England (the Southern Discomfort series) paved the way for changes both to policy and electoral strategy.
French Revolutionary pamphlets portraying Marie Antoinette's supposed bedroom antics were propagandist pornography.
My bookcase groans with books about the Third Way, and beside my bed in teetering piles lie pamphlets and psephological studies and slim, but optimistic volumes with titles like Conservatism - the Future.
And also, "how can you 'teach' someone not to rape?" Their questions played on my mind: what chance did a bunch of well-meaning students have of turning the tide of sexual violence, armed with only pamphlets, whiteboard markers and clipboards?
Thus we spray-painted terrible puns onto bed sheets (oh look, another "Declaration of Waugh") and hoisted them in the air as banners, we slapped on our terry toweling hats, we bought the souvenir tour guides and Channel Nine propaganda pamphlets - still walking away with change from a $10 note – and marvelled in the peerless humour of calling Richard Hadlee a wanker all day.
The Breast Care pamphlets recommend maintaining exercise in the pre-op period, and we have increased our usual 3-4 exercisessionsons a week to almost daily ones leading up to my surgery.
Fabian Society pamphlets first proposed the creation of the National Health Service in 1911, the introduction of a minimum wage in 1906, and the abolition of hereditary peers in 1917.
Only a few men sit in chairs, and leaf through stacks of glossy election pamphlets.
Manchester city council has revealed that 240,000 items in its central library collection, from non-fiction books to pamphlets, were disposed of as part of the recent multi-million pound renovation.
"The Boko Haram gunmen are now at the Jeka-da-Fari roundabout in the centre of the city, firing indiscriminately and throwing pamphlets calling on people not to participate in the elections," resident Ali Dahiru said.
