Budget Collection

Postcard for the Budget League chaired by Winston Churchill to promote the Peoples Budget introduced by David Lloyd George. Tax the Loafer - not the loaf!

Liberal Election Campaign Card, 1909
A Liberal Party campaign card for the 1909 General Election. A grim image of an elderly couple heading for the workhouse is contrasted with the partys vision of sunlit fields of waving corn

Poster advertising Union Castle cruises around South Africa -- tourist class is budget travel

Disraeli / First Budget
William Gladstone attacks Benjamin Disraelis first budget speech, which had lasted five hours

Colonel Robertss Baden-Powell in Mafeking, South Africa Date: 1900

Cartoon, On the Line - Captious Critics
Political cartoon, On the Line - Captious Critics - Free Education Budget, George Goschen (then Chancellor of the Exchequer) depicted as an artist, William Ewart Gladstone and William Harcourt

Caricature illustration of Winston Churchill presenting budget, by Blam. Showing Churchill with magic wand, in front of budget presented on hats along table

Hughes MH-6H Cayuse 81-23651
United States Army - Hughes MH-6H Cayuse 81-23651 (msn), of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), Night Stalkers'

Cartoon, Liberal Prime Minister Asquith
Political cartoon, Liberal Prime Minister Asquith, I can't get all this washed in time - cat washerwoman attempting to cope with Parliamentary Bills in the form of laundry

But Who Will He Belong To? General Election 1910
Adapted drawing from a painting by Joshua Reynold of United Kingdom not knowing which way the election would go. The general election was resulted in a hung parliament

Michael Hicks Beach (1837 - 1916), statesman, chancellor of the exchequer, introducing his financial proposals. Date: 14 April 1902

The Naval programme announced by Alexandra, First of the Admiralty, giving details of reductions in the budget of 1929-30. Date: 1930

HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH (1852 - 1928), Statesman Mr Asquith bringing in the Death Duties Budget of 1907 1907

Original Artwork - Budget for Lewiss Summer Sale
Original Artwork - Design for a Lewiss Summer Sale promotional item or advertisement - Woman in a wide-brimmed spotty hat checking the money in her purse. Date: circa 1937

Couple on Waterloo Bridge, London
Couple stand on the old Waterloo Bridge, London, looking across the River Thames towards the South Bank, flanked by newspaper hoardings. Date: circa 1930s

Cartoon, A Derby Spill (Disraeli versus Liberal Party)
Cartoon, A Derby Spill -- a satirical comment on Benjamin Disraelis attack on the Palmerston government during a debate on the Budget

Cartoon, A Derby Obstruction (Disraeli versus Liberal Party)
Cartoon, A Derby Obstruction -- a satirical comment on Benjamin Disraelis attack on the Palmerston government during a debate on the Budget

Poster, The Poor Mans Burden -- Lloyd Georges Budget on food, beer, tobacco and spirits. Date: circa 1909

WW1 - Cartoon - John Bull Carries On
WW1 - John Bull is a national personification of Great Britain in general, and England in particular, especially in political cartoons

The War Budget - Piper Laidlaw
Front cover of The War Budget featuring a portrait of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, who won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Loos

David Lloyd-George in Parliament, 1909
Illustration of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Welsh Liberal statesman; showing the then Chancellor of the Exchequer presenting his Budget to the House of Commons, 1909

David Lloyd-George (1863-1945), Chancellor of the Exchequer
Photograph of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Welsh Liberal statesman, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, showing him at work on the Budget of 1910

Advert / Press Pall Mall
Poster for Pall Mall Budget, new series, illustrated

Railway station at Hailsham, East Sussex
Aerial view of the deserted railway station at Hailsham, East Sussex, closed on 8 September 1968 as part of the Beeching railway cuts. The last passenger train left the station in May 1968

War Budget cover - 1916
Front cover of The War Budget showing a British soldier, bayonet fixed, looking determinedly into the future as a New Year - 1916 - dawns. Date: 1915

The War Budget - Tommies in gas masks
Front cover of The War Budget. Two British soldiers amuse a young woman when returning home on leave by sporting a gas mask. Date: 1916

The War Budget - British Tommy reads letter from home
Front cover of The War Budget featuring illustration of a British soldier, dressed for winter with a fur or goatskin gherkin, seated contemplating a photograph of his wife or sweetheart. Date: 1916

The War Budget - Christmas 1915
Front cover of The War Budget, Christmas 1915, showing a British soldier sitting in a trench next to a brazier as he opens a parcel of Christmas food sent from home. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Disraeli, Northcote and the Deficit
Cartoon, Benjamin Disraeli, Tory Prime Minister, and Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, worrying over the Deficit

Disraeli / Gladstone 1857
The Balancing Brothers of Westminster For once, Gladstone and Disraeli agree on something (the Budget). Date: 28 February 1857

Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer
New to budget-making: the Keeper of the nations purse- Winston Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: 1925

Cartoon, The State Waggoner and John Bull, or, the Waggon too much for the Donkeys! together with a distant view of the New Coalition among Johnnys Old Horses, by James Gillray

Suffragettes Ejected Canford Park 1909. Scene at Canford Park, Dorset, 2nd August, 1909, Suffragette escorted by policeman away from Liberal fete. Annie Kenney and others tried to question W.S

Harold Wilson with red budget briefcase
Harold Wilson (1916-1995), British Labour politician and Prime Minister (1964-1970 and 1974-1976), pictured with the red budget briefcase in one of the rooms at 10 Downing Street

Reginald McKenna and his wife, WW1
REGINALD McKENNA (1863 - 1943) British banker and Liberal politician, serving as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Asquith premiership, pictured with his wife

Denis Healey with Labour budget box 1978
Denis Healey, with his Budget Box, when he was Labour Party Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: 1978

Michael Hicks-Beach
Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH statesman, chancellor of the exchequer, depicted presenting his 1899 budget to the House of Commons. Date: 1837 - 1916

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

Salvation Army Canteen Van
The London Fire Brigade had dispensed with its own canteen vans, due to financial cutbacks, and relied on the services of the Salvation Army to provided refreshments to fire crews at major fires

Tory Budget 1979
Sir Geoffrey Howe with his Budget Box, when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the then newly elected Conservative government. Date: 1979

Skiing on a Shoestring with Thomas Cook
A poster or handbill advertising Skiing on a Shoestring, new low-cost holidays through Thomas Cook. Ski boots, ski poles and skis are arranged in a cartoon-style image

Atlantic Transport Line poster
Poster advertising the Atlantic Transport Line offering an exclusively tourist third class monthly service throughout the year

Bourneville / Demare / Homme
DESIR-MAGLOIRE BOURNEVILLE French doctor and writer on medical reform

Churchill and Lloyd George
Photograph from Budget Day 1910 showing Winston Churchill (centre right), Home Secretary and David Lloyd George (centre left), Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lemonade duty
Photograph illustrating the reduction in the duty on lemonade following Stanley Baldwins first Budget in April 1923

Austen Chamberlain / 1904
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN British politician making his budget statement as Chancellor of the Exchequer

Gladstone, Full Length
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE standing proudly, with the red despatch case of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, containing the Budget, at his feet

Gladstones Budget 1860
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE As Chancellor of the Exchequer he presents his budget to the Commons

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