Laws Collection

Visigothic Code or Liber Iudiciorum or Lex Visigothorum. Set of laws promulgated by the Visigothic king of Hispania, Chindasuinth and enlarged by Recceswinth (654).Vit. 14-5. I foliate I

Gandhi breaking the Salt Laws - the civil disobedience in In
In 1930 Ghandi led the Salt March to Dandi, which was an act of non-violent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India

List of School Rules
A list of 12 school rules of the Haberdashers Askes School for Girls, Hatcham including the penalty for unmaidenly conduct. You have been warned!

Mademoiselle Chauvin the first female barrister 1901
Mademoiselle Chauvin, the first female barrister, illustrated as she is sworn in at the French Bar. The Sphere describes the mixed reaction to Mdlle Chauvins right to practise

Suffragette in the Dock
Arrested suffragette in the dock : I protest against Man- made laws !

Ideal Scientist
The ideal scientist - interested in the old as well as the new, anatomy as well as astronomy, the laws of chance and of mathematics, the skill of chess, the hues of a rose

Punch / Corn Law / Coventgdn
CORN LAWS Purifying Covent Garden Theatre

Kate Meyrick released from prison
Kate Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene. She ran " 43", a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho

Anti-Poor Law poster c. 1834 showing the interior of an English workhouse under the new laws Date: c. 1834

Tynwald Hill - St John s, Isle of Man (" where the new Manx Laws are made" ). Established by Norse Viking settlers over a thousand years ago with the hill thought to have been built in

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Bride and Parents-in-Law. The bride performing a rite of drinking sake with her husbands parents in order to express the true heart of loving each other tenderly as

Ancient Irish Judges
A BREHON, a judge of ancient Ireland, with his FILIDH, whose job it was to know all the laws and be able to quote them. With them is an Irish wolfhound. Date: early centuries AD

Gandhi breaking the Salt Laws
Gandhi with Mrs Sarojini Maidu at Dandi before the Salt March of 1930

Football referees studying the rules of the game
London Association of Referees using tactical table to study the rules of the game Date: 1946

Isaac Newton (1642-1726/1727). English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Chromolithography, 1876. Date: 2014

Anti-Tory demonstration with Morning Star banner
Anti-Tory demonstration on a London street with a Morning Star banner and Socialist Worker placards. Date: circa 1980

Cartoon, The Seven-league boots 1846
Cartoon, The Seven-league boots; or, Death of Giant Monopoly. A satirical comment on the repeal of the Corn Laws, depicting Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister

Great Yarmouth Common Lodging House Bye Laws
Part of the bye laws for the regulation of Common Lodging Houses, issued by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of Health. Date: 1868

Cartoon, The Protection Giant -- Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum! I smell the Blood of an Englishman; Be he Alive, or be he Dead, I ll grind his Bones to make my Bread

Cartoon, The Rising Generation -- In Parliament. A satirical comment on conflicts within the Conservative Party over Sir Robert Peels repeal of the Corn Laws

King William I, Normans, Architecture, Laws, Art, Learning
King William I (The Conqueror), Normans, architecture, laws, art and learning. (4 of 4) 11th century

Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, Isle of Man
Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, 4th Earl Granville, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, taking part in a procession on Tynwald Hill, an ancient ceremony promulgating new laws, on 5 July 1938. 1938

Sir John Wolfenden, the Chairman of the Committee on the Laws relating to Homosexuality and Prostitution, in a studio at Broadcasting House before discussing the report in BBC Radios Womans Hour

King Cnut commands the tide to retreat (unsuccessfully)
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

Petrol pumps on the pavement at a service station at Ellesmere, Shropshire, England, a practice not permitted by local by-laws. Green Shield stamps for sale! Date: 1960s

Gladstone speaking in the House of Commons
Interior of House of Commons with Gladstone in his early years speaking

Sir Isaac Newton
SIR ISaC NEWTON - Mathematician and physicist Formulates gravitational laws Date: 1642-1727

Opening session of the First State Duma, Russia
The opening session of the short-lived First State Duma (legislative assembly), which lasted until July but was deadlocked when radicals challenged fundamental laws. Date: April 1906

The National Vigilance Association - NVA Workers, London
The National Vigilance Association - NVA Workers at work at a London Railway Station. The NVA was a society established in August 1885 " for the enforcement

Franklyn Laws Hutton, co-founder of Woolworth s
Franklyn Laws Hutton (1877-1940) co-founder with his brother Edward Hutton of the Woolworths shopping empire. Date: 1939

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Votes for Women
A girl sneaks in to the offices of the militant suffragettes to see piles of newspapers, hammers, whips and stones. All part of the W.S.P.Us arsenal

King Cnut the Great fails to halt the incoming tide
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

Suffragette Come off the Fence N. U. W. S. S
Suffragette Come off the Fence N.U.W.S.S. Implores a woman sitting on a fence to join the fight for, Suffrage and Citizenship Gaining the vote would give women influence on issues such as unjust Laws

The Gortyn code, Gortyn, Crete, Greece
The Gortyn code (also called the Great Code) was a legal code that was the codification of the civil law of the ancient Greek city-state of Gortyn in southern Crete

Recopilacion de privilegios reales del reino y la ciudad de
16th century. Recopilacion de privilegios reales del reino y la ciudad de Valencia (Collection of royal privileges of the kingdom and the city of Valencia). Work written by the notary Luis Alanya

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) German mathematician and astronomer. Considered the founder of modern astronomy. Colored engraving

Mother in Law / Pauquet
Mother-in-law has come to visit, and he doesn t seem very pleased about it Date: 1850

King John signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede
English Barons persuade King John to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede on 15th June 1215 - illustration from a booklet History and the Mustard Pot for Colmans Mustard. Date: 1215

Kate Ma Meyrick, nightclub queen
Kate Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene. She ran " 43", a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho

Scotland Yard raiding nightclubs, 1928
Two officers disguised in evening dress take the details of two guests at a night club they are raiding. Raids on London nightclubs were frequent during the First World War

Ausnahmegesetze (emergency laws). Thomas Theodor Heine Caricature comparing Bismarcks inability to contain the social democracy and Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922

RECESVINTUS, Flavius ( -672). Visigoth King (653-672). Visigothic Code, also known as Forum iudicum, Liber Iudiciorum or Lex Visigothorum

Restaurant restrictions during WW1
Article from The Sphere demonstrating the new wartime lunch and dinner restrictions put in place in restaurants and hotels

Suffragette Girl Protests Trafalgar Square. Little girl stands on a barrell, VFW placard beside her, and cries, Down with man-made laws! Date: circa 1908

Notice published by London Licensed Victuallers, WW1
Prohibition of Treating (ie buying a drink for another person). Notice published by London Licensed Victuallers, 11 October 1915

Georgina Weldon, campaigner, litigant and amateur singer
Georgina Weldon 1837-1914), campaigner against the lunacy laws, litigant and amateur singer. Her interest in spiritualism led her husband to try to prove that she was insane; she resisted being taken

Thos. Perronet Thompson
Colonel THOMAS PERRONET THOMPSON soldier and statesman, author of The catechism of the Corn Laws etc. with his autograph Date: 1783 - 1869

SOLON Greek lawgiver : with a heap of documents containing his laws. Date: 630 ? - 560 ? BC

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