Candidate Collection

Michael Foot (1913-2010) British politician when he was the Labour Party candidate for Ebbw Vale, at the election caused by the death of Aneurin Bevan

Suffragettes Pankhurst and Gawthorpe Rutland 1907
Christabel Pankhurst and Mary Gawthorpe in the Market Place, Uppingham, holding a meeting during the 1907 Rutland bye-election

William Jennings Bryan
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Popular American statesman, defeated as Democratic Presidential candidate in 1896 and 1900

Female Initiation - 6
A candidate is initiated as Mistress of the Temple, lying on a supposed corpse and restoring him to life with the warmth of her body. Date: 1891

Wyndhams Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London. Showing at this time was The Candidate - a farce by Justin H. McCarthy. Date: 1908

William Clive Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman (18641935) - British Conservative politician and peer. The Grandfather of Robin John Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman (1930-)

Scottish Rite
Induction to the 33rd Degree of the Scottish rite; the Candidate is led forward where the Book awaits him - watched over by the Skeleton, symbol

Reginald Rait Canvassing on the Isle of Thanet, 1923
Photograph showing the youngest candidate standing in 1923, Reginald I. Rait (Liberal) (centre of image), canvassing a voter in the Isle of Thanet

General James Irvin
Portrait of General James Irvin. Whig candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania

The Illustrated London News Election Map - 1906 - The electoral battlefield at a glance: Candidates and Constituencies by A Hugh Fisher. Date: 1906

Portrait of the Hon W F D Smith
Portrait of the HON. W. F. D. SMITH, (12 August 1868 ?? 16 June 1928), known as Frederick Smith. He was an English business man and politician

Communist party candidate campaigning
Gladys Easton (?), who stood as the Communist Party candidate in the London constituency of Battersea North in two elections (1964 & 1966), speaking to roadworkers. Date: 1960s

Sammy Barr, Communist candidate 1978
Sammy Barr (centre, with glasses), Communist candidate in the by-election held in the Glasgow, Carscadden constituency in April 1978, along with supporters

Communist Party of Great Britain
Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain with banners campaign on behalf of their candidate Ken Sprague, a political cartoonist and journalist Date: 1960s ?

Shapurji Saklatvala, British Communist politician
Shapurji Saklatvala (1874-1936), British politician of Indian Parsi background. He belonged to both the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain

Peter Tatchell and others, Bermondsey by-election
Peter Gary Tatchell (b 1952), Australian-born British political activist. Seen here (second from left) as the Labour Party candidate at the declaration of votes for a by-election in Bermondsey

Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British political activist
Peter Gary Tatchell (b 1952), Australian-born British political activist. Seen here talking to people on the street and handing out leaflets while fighting a by-election in Bermondsey

Keir Hardie James 1856 1915 Scottish Socialism
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Joe Bent, Communist Party politician in Southwark, London
Joe Bent (Spencer John Bent) Communist Party politician in Southwark, south-east London. Seen here outside a Polling Station, talking with a voter

Benazir Bhutto addressing a public meeting
Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), the then acting Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), addressing a public meeting. She later became Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996)

Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum - Election Lobby Card
A card lobbying for support for Robert Wilfrid Dickson, a candidate in an election for new admissions to the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum. Date: 1848

Cartoon, A candidate for the new acting academy - The Church is no longer the only Profession open to the Fool of the Family. 1880s

Cartoon, How election matters stand in Birmingham
Cartoon, How election matters stand in Central Birmingham - Would you mind getting outside, sir, so as to make room for this civil-spoken young man

Rachel Parsons
Miss Rachel Parsons, (18851956) British engineer, pictured here when she was Unionist candidate for Lancashire in the 1923 General Election. Date: 1923

Superman on the Stump - George Bernard Shaw 1910
Front cover of The Graphic, showing George Bernard Shaw taking part in a lively electioneering campaign, in Portsmouth. Date: 1910

A seated candidate for the French Air Service is subjected to a series of tests to gauge his respiration, hand and pulse, during the firing of a revolver

The General Election - The Candidates Vision
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - The Candidates Vision. The glorious reception given to Josh Binks M.P. 1908

The General Election - Village Politicians
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Village Politicians. A local candidate giving a speech to the assembled clientelle at the local rural boozer... 1908

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

IRISH POLITICAL MEETING
A political meeting in progress in Ireland during elections, union flags displayed prominently on the wall - the candidate tries to speak in a hostile atmosphere Date: 1893

The Election, chairing the member, by William Hogarth
4.THE ELECTION Chairing the Member Date: 1758

The Illustrated London News - Diamond Chart Election Map: The Position of the Parties - also featuring politica thermometers ! Date: 1910

Kid Lewis and Oswald Mosley
Kid Lewis, triple boxing champion and ex-holder of the world welterweight title who stood as a New Party candidate in Whitechapel, East London

Mr Rider Haggard and dog, caricature illustration by Grip
Mr Rider Haggard as a Parliamentary Candidate, and his bull-dog, Poacher'. From a section, Small Talk'. Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

Pompeii as it was and is by Matania
The last election in Pompeii, 2000 years ago, before the eruption of Vesuvius, as envisaged by the Sphere special artist and expert in historical reconstruction, Fortunino Matania

Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Five Points district of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during a reception for General Leonard Wood, unsuccessful Republican candidate in the 1920 election, on flag raising day, 1 June 1920. Date: 1920

Abdulla Cigarettes advert featuring female M. P. 1919
Advertisement illustrated by Annie Fish for Abdulla Cigarettes, one in a series documenting the political career of Angela a pioneering female politician in the post-WW1 era

Suffragette Mrs. Pankhurst Haverford West 1908. Mrs. Pankhurst addresses a crowd at Haverford West, Pembrokeshire, in July 1908

Germany. Weimar Republic (1925). Election campaign. Supporters of nationalist candidate Karl Jarres in the Tauentziensstrasse, Berl�

Female Initiation - 3
A candidate is initiated as a Mistress : blindfolded, she is placed on the Tower of Babel, much to her confusion when the blindfold is removed. Date: 1891

Nursing her Constituency by Reginald Higgins
A young female political candidate or M.P. awkwardly nurses a baby while visiting her constituents. Date: 1929

Cartoon, A new man in Oldacres part. A reference to a three-act comedy entitled The Candidate, at the Criterion Theatre, London

Politics. The candidates vision
Candidate dreams about becoming a successful Member of Parliament. Date: circa 1915

General Election Promo postcard for Sydney Hoffnung Goldsmid
The reverse of a promo postcard from January 1910 General Election for Sydney Hoffnung Goldsmid, Conservative candidate for Camberwell North who failed to defeat the incumbent Thomas James Macnamara

Bertrand Russell, philosopher and author
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author. Outline of his policies in an election leaflet as suffragist candidate in the Wimbledon By-Election, 1907. Date: 1907

Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago: Bates, Pennington, Chase, Fremont, Lincoln, Seward, Banks, McLean, Cameron, Bell and Clay. Wood engraving (1860)

United States. Supporters of Abraham Lincoln, candidate of the Republican Party. Colored engraving from L Illustration Journal Universel, 1860

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