Abolition Collection

Peasants Revolt / Germany
The peasants rise up and revolt for the abolition of feudal dues, serfdom and tithes

Pilgrimage of Grace / 1537
The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rising of Roman Catholics in N.England. It protest against government abolition of papal supremacy and confiscation of smaller monastic properties

Cartoon, The Veto Bill, by W H Toy. The new legislation was designed to limit the powers of veto of the House of Lords, and became law later the same year. 1911

Charles James Fox speaking out in Parliament against slavery
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), British Whig Statesman, MP and ardent anti-slavery campaigner, shown here speaking out in Parliament against the slave trade

ABOLITION OF PARIS TOLLS
The customs tolls on merchandise coming into Paris are abolished Date: 1791

The Wilberforce Oak at Keston near Bromley, Greater London. William Wilberforce was a frequent visitor to the area, and it was on top of the vale of Keston (near to an oak tree)

St Pauls constractor, by William Heath Robinson
In 1913 the major architectural journals were reporting about the possibility that the dome of St Pauls could collapse due to subsidence and the weakness of the supporting piers

Cartoon, The Undertakers Arms (after Hogarth), Endum Non Mendum, depicting the imagined demise of the House of Lords. A Bill had been put forward to abolish the Upper House, but was not successful

French Revolution (1789-1799). The royal family took refuge in the Assembly after the assault on the Tuileries (August 1792) and the suspension of the functions of King Louis XVI

Cassius Marcellus Clay
CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY American statesman : active abolitionist, publishing abolition newspaper : served in Mexican War; later U.S. minister to Russia. Date: 1810 - 1903

Du Maurier / Punch 1884
Comment on the aristocracy - discussing the abolition of the House of Lords Date: 1884

French Revolution. Le Jeu de Hazard (The Gambling). Caricature alluding to the abolition of privileges of the nobility and clergy

Abolition of Slavery in Jamaica. Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1834, but Slaves received their unrestricted freedom in Jamaica on August 1st, 1838. Date: 1838

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America from 1861 until his assassination by John Wilkes Booth in 1865

Revolution Game
A board game in which successive squares are incidents in the Revolution, such as the King coming to Paris and the abolition of the gabelle (the hated salt tax). Date: circa 1790

Menu from Halifax Union Board of Guardians dinner
The cover of the commemorative menu at the Halifax Union Board of Guardians final dinner. The abolition of all the countrys Boards of Guardians after April 1930 marked the end of the workhouse system

Privileges Abolished
Satire on the abolition of privileges, whereby nobles more or less voluntarily relinquished their hereditary benefits

Events / Russia
ABOLITION OF SERFDOM : Tsar Alexander II orders emancipation of serfs throughout Russia

Celebrating Serfdom End
ABOLITION OF SERFDOM : rejoicings at Saint Petersburg

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