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Poster for 1938 Eucharistic Congress, Budapest
Poster for 34th International Eucharistic Congress, Budapest. The poster shows an angel flying over the globe holding a chalice with the bright moon forming a glowing orb above the cup
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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Trade union. Manifest published by the World Congress in London
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The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3. Civil Commissioner, London and Home Counties Division: Major W. Cope, 4. Civil Commissioner, Eastern Division: Major Sir Philip Sassoon, 5. Coal-owner's representatives leaving Downing Street: (Left to right) Messrs. W. A. Lee, Evan Williams, Edward Mann, and Guthrie. 6. Civil Commissioner for the North Midland Division: Captain H. Douglas King, 7. The Members of the Coal Commission: (Left to right) Mr. Kenneth Lee, Sir William Beveridge, Sir Herbert Samuel, (Chairman) and Sir Herbert Lawrence. 8. Minister of Labour: Sir Arthur Steel Maitland. 9. Civil Commissioner, Midland Division: Lt. Col. the Hon. G.F. Stanley. 11. Civil Commissioner, North Eastern Division: Captain D. H. Hacking. 12. Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Mines: Col. G.R. Lane-Fox, 13. Civil Commissioner, South Midland Division: Major Earl Winterton, 14. The Home Secretary: Sir William Joynson-Hicks. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts, the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in early May 1926. The strike only involved certain key industrial sectors (docks, electricity, gas, railways) but, in the face of well-organised government emergency measures and lack of real public support, it collapsed after nine days
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Poster, International Air Races, St Louis, USA, 1-2-3 October 1923. Date: 1923
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Cartoon, A Modest Boast (Social Science)
Cartoon, A Modest Boast -- Britannia reads the report of a recent Social Science Congress, and thinks that her understanding of the subject is better than some people's, bearing in mind wars and conflicts going on in various countries. The Social Science Congress was held on a yearly basis by the Social Science Association, a reformist organisation founded in 1857. Date: 1873
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