Labour Gallery

Labour Party election posters and television speakers

Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labour's series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won). Poster slogans include Stop H-Bomb Poison Now, and Smash the Tory Swindle. Speakers include leader Hugh Gaitskell, treasurer Aneurin Bevan, Barbara Castle and Harold Wilson

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

WW1 - Home Front - The Queens Work for Women Fund

After the outbreak of WW1, many women in the textile and clothing industry had lost their jobs as export markets closed, posing a direct threat to their job prospects. The War Emergency Workers National Committee, which included leading figures from the labour movement, opposed it. Representatives of working women were called to the palace and The Queen's Work for Women Fund was created. Contracts to supply clothing and other items for the Army Supply Department were issued and the Queen placed a personal order for 75, 000 woollen body belts as part of her Christmas gift to the troops. Date: circa 1915

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey

A view of the entrance to Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey. The buildings were originally opened in 1860 as an invalid prison for convicts not fit enough to be sent to Dartmoor. An adjacent female prison built by inmate labour opened in 1869. The prison was taken over by the army in around 1892 and renamed Inkerman Barracks after the Crimean War battle of that name

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection