For those of us who knew Jo Cox, it’s the little personal touches that are so affecting about the exhibition on her life which opened on Wednesday.
Jo’s blue and white Peruvian mountain hat, which her children Lejla and Cuillin now carry to the top of Scotland’s Munro mountain tops, in a quest to bag all 282 of them.
The coat of arms designed by her husband Brendan and the children to include the many things “that mummy cared about”.
The banner made and carried by her neighbours to the vigil that followed her 2016 murder.
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These were the things gathered together by the MP’s family, when they were asked to contribute to an exhibition at the People’s History Museum about Jo’s life and legacy.
More in Common: in memory of Jo Cox, opened on Wednesday in Manchester, five years after her death.
It is based around Jo’s own words in her maiden speech to Parliament: “We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us”.
The exhibition includes the Jo Cox Memorial Wall, on public display for the first time since 2016 when it went up outside the Houses of Parliament.
The wall of handwritten tributes will stand alongside a new virtual Wall of Hope, so anyone anywhere in the world can add a tribute for Jo.
Kim Leadbeater MBE, Jo’s sister, says: “As a family we have taken the opportunity to go through the piles of photos and other memories of Jo.
"It’s been a bittersweet experience, of course, but we are hugely grateful to everybody at the museum.”
Jo’s and other parallel stories inspired by Jo’s life have been shaped by the More in Common project group.
Visitors can also find out more about the Jo Cox Foundation and The Great Get Together, partners for Britain Talks, a Daily Mirror and Daily Express project inspired by Jo’s life.
A ball signed by the Batley Bulldogs girls’ rugby league team and a cross blessed by Pope Francis and presented to the family are also on display, as is a tribute book from the 1st Roberttown & Norristhorpe Brownie group in the village where her parents and sister live.
