Hardship Collection

Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade, 1890
Photograph of survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War taken 36 years after the event. The photograph was taken for charitable purposes

LSO musicians supporting BBC musicians, London
London Symphony Orchestra musicians supporting BBC musicians outside Broadcasting House, London, 27 June 1980. The strike by BBC musicians began when the BBC put forward plans to discontinue five

Food donation for striking miners
A T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress)centre acts as a food donation collecting point during the miners strike of 1984-85. The long strike meant that miners families endured financial hardship

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Polish Victims Relief Fund
Advertisement asking for contributions to the Polish Victims Relief Fund during the First World War. Date: 1917

WW1 - Advertisenent for French Byrrh Tonic Wine - Artillery moved to the front through difficult muddy conditions. Date: 1915

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Where to put Cookery Books?
WW2 Rationing - Humour - Where shall we put the old-time Cookery Books? Fiction or Humour ?! Date: circa 1944

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

Street music: A November day, 1872
Three weary street musicians ply their trade on a rainy day in November. Date: 1872

Suffragette inmates, Holloway Prison
A group of suffragettes, wearing prison uniform of quaint Dutch style caps and aprons at Holloway Prison, sort through a basket of old shoes, trying to find a pair to fit

Red Army Aid the Poor
War and revolution have brought terrible hardship to the general public : Red Army soldiers distribute supplies to the needy

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