Giving Gallery

Clement Attlee and General Jose Miaja give the Socialist Sal

Photograph showing Clement Attlee (left), General Jose Miaja (centre with glasses) and Giner de Los Rios giving the Socialist clenched-fist salute from balcony of a government building in Madrid, 1937. Clement Attlee, then leader of the Labour Party in Great Britain, caused something of a stir by visiting the Republican held parts of Spain in 1937. As the British Conservative government was trying to uphold a non-intervention policy with regard to the Spanish Civil War, the arrival of Attlee in the front-line of the conflict caused a certain amount of argument.

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Michael Foot, Labour politician, giving a speech

Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter, and the oldest sitting member of the House of Commons 1987-1992. Seen here giving a speech, probably at a Labour Party conference, watched by Tony Benn (Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, b 1925) and Judith Hart (Baroness Hart of South Lanark, 1924-1991).

© Mary Evans / Marx Memorial Library

Visit of the Prince of Wales to India - elephants

Visit of the Prince of Wales to India. Cover of the Special Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 8th January 1876. The Prince (later King Edward VII) giving sugar cane to the elephants at the rehearsal of the Perahara (Perahera), Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Date: 1876

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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