Ballot Collection

Women Get the Vote
British women over 30 years old allowed to vote for the first time

Womens Right / Activities
French 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 procession
A 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 1982
A 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 Ballot
At 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 1955
Women 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 Aires
The 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 1978
A woman casts her vote on polling day Date: 1978

William Hogarths Election 3 of 4
The Election- The Polling - scene at the hustings plate 3 of 4 Date: 1758

The Ballot Box, Horsendon Hill, Sudbury, Middlesex
Horsendon Hill, Sudbury, near Harrow, Middlesex, England. Showing The Ballot Box Date: 1906. Horsenden Lane North, Middlesex UB6 7QL

Voting by secret ballot
A parliamentary election, voting by secret ballot was only introduced in Britain in 1872 with Gladstones Ballot Act removing the possible intimidation of open voting

Coal strike: movements towards an offical settlement 1926
Fillings 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 Ballot
The 1920 Ballot Date: 1920

Catching the celestial ballot. Illustration showing two Irishmen discussing a portrait of George Washington. Date 1900 February 21

Counting Votes 1979
Counting the votes in a hall during a British election. Date: 1979

American election cartoon with Uncle Sam voting
Cartoon 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 votes
A Finnish woman puts her vote in the ballot box at an election. Finnish women had had the vote since 1905. 1913

Humours of Electioneering
Humorous 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 day
The 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 Papers
Ballot 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, 1872
Engraving 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 Vote
The peoples vote

Napoleon Elected
Presidential 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 Century
H. Harral and W.V Bromleys impression of men voting by ballot in a Nineteenth Century parliamentary election

Miners Vote to Strike
Miners 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 Election
A general election scene in Britain before the introduction of the secret ballot: voters coming to the poll at Westminster

Open Election, Britain
Scene 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, 1920
After a secret ballot, British miners decide to go on strike

Conscription New York
Desperate for men, the Federal government introduces conscription : in New York this is effected by ballot. It is less than popular

Women Voting / 1918
British women vote for the first time

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