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Women Get the VoteBritish women over 30 years old allowed to vote for the first time
Womens Right / ActivitiesFrench suffragettes disrupt election by attacking ballot box
Typical Lancashire miners going on strike: A group of men leaving work until further notice. Date: October 1920
Welsh miners going on strike at the Rhondda valley colliery: Men leaving the mines. Date: October 1920
Chartist petition processionA print of the chartists procession of 1842 taking the great national petition of 3, 317, 702 signatures to the House of Commons
Miners ballot October 1982A group of Yorkshire miners support the motion to strike over pay and pit closures in October 1982. They were in the minority as 61% of miners nationally voted against. and strike action was avoided
Miners BallotAt Snowdown colliery in Kent, a miner, having completed his shift underground, votes in a ballot on early retirement Date: 24 November 1980
Discussing the situation, apparently without misgivings: Pit lasses and pit boys after ceasing work. Date: October 1920
Notts strikers and their last mornings work: The final shift at Clifton Colliery. Date: October 1920
Lancashire miners extinguishing their lamps after ceasing work: Men on strike at Audenshaw pits. Date: October 1920
Black country strikers: miners at the pit bank, Stoke-on-Trent, coming up in the cage for the last time. Date: October 1920
Cartoon, That Ballot-Boy Again! (Ballot Bill)Cartoon, That Ballot-Boy Again! The Ballot Bill (legislation for the use of a secret ballot in elections) was proving difficult to get through
Cartoon, The Strong Government (Disraeli and Gladstone)Cartoon, The Strong Government -- a satirical comment on Gladstones government introducing the Ballot Bill (legislation for the secret ballot in elections)
Women recording votes for the General Election 1955Women recording the General Election votes, 26 May 1955, in Brixton town hall, London. The 1955 General Election, often described as one of the dullest of the post-war period
Election Proceedings in Buenos AiresThe Argentinian election proceeding under military protection in Buenos Aires. Soldiers stand watching as men walk up the the voting table, and cast their ballots
CASTING A VOTE 1978A woman casts her vote on polling day Date: 1978
William Hogarths Election 3 of 4The Election- The Polling - scene at the hustings plate 3 of 4 Date: 1758
Voting by secret ballotA parliamentary election, voting by secret ballot was only introduced in Britain in 1872 with Gladstones Ballot Act removing the possible intimidation of open voting
The Ballot Box, Horsendon Hill, Sudbury, MiddlesexHorsendon Hill, Sudbury, near Harrow, Middlesex, England. Showing The Ballot Box Date: 1906. Horsenden Lane North, Middlesex UB6 7QL
Coal strike: movements towards an offical settlement 1926Fillings in many of collieries was that the Genaral strike was coming to the end; a flow of men returning back to work steadily increased
Urn. Biconical ossuary, 8-9th c. BC. Etruscan art. Jewelry. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia
1920 BallotThe 1920 Ballot Date: 1920
Catching the celestial ballot. Illustration showing two Irishmen discussing a portrait of George Washington. Date 1900 February 21
Counting Votes 1979Counting the votes in a hall during a British election. Date: 1979
American election cartoon with Uncle Sam votingCartoon by Clifford K Berryman entitled Anxious Moments, showing Uncle Sam voting in an American presidential election, about to drop his voting paper into the ballot box
A Finnish woman votesA Finnish woman puts her vote in the ballot box at an election. Finnish women had had the vote since 1905. 1913
Humours of ElectioneeringHumorous illustration depicting a fresh-faced young farm worker casting his first vote in a General Election while a short-sighted gentleman marks his cross in another polling booth
The Athenaeum Club on ballot dayThe busy drawing room of the Athenaeum Club, on Pall Mall, central London, on a ballot day. The ballots were held on monday afternoons between February and July
Nhs Ballot PapersBallot papers are destroyed following the plebiscite of doctors organised by the B.M.A. The doctors voted overwhelmingly against the National Health Service Act
Folding Ballots in a New York Politicians House, 1872Engraving showing a drawing room in a New York politicians house with a group of young ladies helping to fold ballot papers for the 1872 Presidential election
China / Peoples VoteThe peoples vote
Napoleon ElectedPresidential elections - the ballot-boxes are taken to the Hotel de Ville, Paris, to be counted. Louis Napoleon will be the outright winner
A Parliamentary Election In The Nineteenth CenturyH. Harral and W.V Bromleys impression of men voting by ballot in a Nineteenth Century parliamentary election
Miners Vote to StrikeMiners queue to vote yes to strike action
Ballot (Explorer)BALLOT French explorer in central and west Africa, administrator in Dahomey Date: flourished end 19th century
Voting / General ElectionA general election scene in Britain before the introduction of the secret ballot: voters coming to the poll at Westminster
Open Election, BritainScene at a hustings in the days of OPEN ELECTRION, before the secret ballot was finally introduced in 1872 after being rejected time and time again
MINERS STRIKE, 1920After a secret ballot, British miners decide to go on strike
Conscription New YorkDesperate for men, the Federal government introduces conscription : in New York this is effected by ballot. It is less than popular
Women Voting / 1918British women vote for the first time