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Ban Collection

Background imageBan Collection: (Mustapha) Kemal Ataturk

(Mustapha) Kemal Ataturk
(MUSTAPHA) KEMAL ATATURK Turkish statesman, in 1925; at the time of the ban on wearing the fez

Background imageBan Collection: Front page, Youth Against the Bomb, CND newspaper

Front page, Youth Against the Bomb, CND newspaper, with an article about support from Paul McCartney of The Beatles pop group, Easter 1964. 1964

Background imageBan Collection: A Game of Football in the Streets of London, c. 1314

A Game of Football in the Streets of London, c. 1314
Illustration of a game of football being played in the streets of London during the 14th century. Football of this time, played without rules in narrow medieval streets

Background imageBan Collection: Tobacco Ban Threat

Tobacco Ban Threat
Beware, Mr Smoker, your turn is next ! - a prophetic satire from the Prohibition Era in America

Background imageBan Collection: Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher

Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher
A puppet of Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Prime Minister, used on the satirical TV programme, Spitting Image. The book is Spycatcher by Peter Wright

Background imageBan Collection: American anti-nuclear Ban the Bomb protestors - Germany

American anti-nuclear Ban the Bomb protestors - Germany
circa 1910s

Background imageBan Collection: Cartoon, Things not to do in wartime, WW1

Cartoon, Things not to do in wartime, WW1
Cartoon, Things not to do in wartime. A man says that if planes fly over his house again tonight, he won t be looking out of the window. Why, did you get bombed? No, I got a stiff neck. Date: 1917

Background imageBan Collection: Cartoon, Press censorship in wartime, WW1

Cartoon, Press censorship in wartime, WW1
Cartoon, Press censorship in wartime. A writer welcomes the white spaces in his article, saying that if there were no spaces, nobody would want to read it. Date: 1917

Background imageBan Collection: Cartoon, Monday and Tuesday, WW1

Cartoon, Monday and Tuesday, WW1
Cartoon, Monday and Tuesday. A sign says No Fishing, but a man sits with his rod and line, determined to catch and eat fish, just to annoy the authorities

Background imageBan Collection: Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire

Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire
Following claims, in 1842, that the practice of allowing young men to pay night-time visits to female servants in agricultural areas of the Wrexham Union resulted in many single mothers at

Background imageBan Collection: Count Josip Jellacic

Count Josip Jellacic
Baron JOSIP von JELLACIC Ban of Croatia, soldier and statesman. Date: 1801 - 1859

Background imageBan Collection: Laos - Building a Missionary School

Laos - Building a Missionary School
Building a Missionary School at Ban Nong Bua, Khammouan, Laos Date: circa 1910s

Background imageBan Collection: Harbour landscape with an encounter between Aborigines and B

Harbour landscape with an encounter between Aborigines and B
Drawing 40 from the Watling Collection titled Ban nel lang meeting the Governor by appointment after he was wounded by Willemaring in September 1790 by Port Jackson Painter, 1790

Background imageBan Collection: PORTUGAL. Lisbon. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai attend a Meeting on Afghanistan on November 20, 2010 in Lisbon

Background imageBan Collection: German Student Duel 1933

German Student Duel 1933
German students defy the ban on duelling. Date: 1933

Background imageBan Collection: Bromley Young Communists on a CND march

Bromley Young Communists on a CND march
Bromley Young communists taking part in a CND march in Horley, Surrey

Background imageBan Collection: Riots in Croatia

Riots in Croatia
Just who will rule Croatia is much disputed, leading to riots such as these at Agram : eventually count Khven- Hedervary will be installed as Ban of Croatia

Background imageBan Collection: Papal Ban at Ancona

Papal Ban at Ancona
Ancona, seeking independence, is placed under a ban by pope Gregorius XVI : newspapers encouraging resistance are smuggled in by balloon

Background imageBan Collection: Lionel Nathan Rothschild

Lionel Nathan Rothschild
LIONEL NATHAN ROTHSCHILD Banker, elected MP but not allowed to take seat, succeeded in removing ban on Jewish MPs


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