League Collection (page 2)

Our Dumb Friends League. A society for the encouragement of kindness to animals. Blue Cross fund for wounded horses at the front. Poster showing a wounded horse on the battlefield. Date 1915

Dolly Sisters wearing their Ciro pearl costumes
The Dolly Sisters wearing their Ciro pearl in League of Notions, London, 1921 1921

Galaxy of the National League. Print shows photomontage of eight National League baseball teams: Washington Nationals, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, New York Giants, Boston Beaneaters

Visitors wait outside Kilmainham Jail, Dublin
Visitors, including members of the Ladies Land League, wait outside Kilmainham Jail, where many of the Irish Land League leaders, including Charles Stewart Parnell, were being held

Mary Macarthur
MARY MACARTHUR of the Womens Labour League

Aga Khan Iii / India / Vf 04
AGA KHAN III originally SULTAN SIR MOHAMMED SHAH Indian Muslim leader, took part in conferences, including League of Nations

Political poster, Free Trade versus Fair Trade -- a commentary on Joseph Chamberlain (seen here as the New Gardener) and the Tariff Reform League. circa 1906

Ypres Battlefield Markers and signs
Over the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest

Womens League of Health and Beauty, Prunella Stack
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, formerly Prunella Stack, with some of her students and teachers at the rehearsal of the Womens League of Health and Beauty for the first peace-time rally in Regents Park

Public forum - H. Duncan Hall, former high official of the League of Nations, will discuss the essential conditions of any lasting peace. Poster announcing a public forum in Des Moines, Iowa

Boy in the Young Helpers League or Naval Brigade, Royal Sailors Rest Portsmouth

Church Association Protestant League travelling preacher

The Church Association travelling preacher

Church Association National Protestant League Travelling Preacher Victorian period

Everton FC team, 1932, winners of the League Championship and Division Two Championship (1931) in successive seasons. Date: 1932

Plan of the Battle of Vienna, 12 September 1683
Holy Roman Empire. Plan of the Battle of Vienna, 12 September 1683. It took place at Kahlenberg Mountain, near Vienna, ather the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire during two months

Campaign poster against scrapping trams - modern trams give low fares, safety and comfort Date: circa 1940s

The league for the rights of women
French women in a car in the streets of Paris, demonstrating for their right to vote. They were members of the league for the rights of women'. Date: 1925

Warrington Rugby Team, strategizing ahead of their first ever match at Wembley Stadium, the Rugby League Cup Final against Huddersfield due to be played on May 6th. Huddersfield won. Date: 1933

Luis de Requesens y Zuniga (1528-1576). Spanish military, poltician and diplomat. Governor of the Duchy of Milan (1572-1573) and the Netherlands (1573-1576). Portrait, detail. Illustration by Llanta

Battle of Arbelas or Battle of Gaugamela - Jose del Castillo
Battle of Arbelas or Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC). Combat between Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius III. Painting by Jose del Castillo (1737-1793). Detail

Battle of Arbelas or Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC). Combat between Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius III. Painting by Jose del Castillo (1737-1793)

Teddy Tail League birthday card Date: 20th century

Manchester United FC Team 1949-1950, First Division, English League Date: circa 1949

John Redmond, Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
John Redmond (1856-1918), leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The election in January 1910 had returned a hung parliament, and Redmond's party held the balance of power at Westminster

Young Communist League demonstration, London
Young Communist League members demonstrating outside the American Embassy in London, 28 April 1980. One of them is holding up a copy of the Morning Star newspaper with the headline

Flight in St. Martin's Lane between the police and the contingent from Clerkenwell Green. Police meet rioters and dispersed a procession marching from Clerkenwell Green

George Thomas, British Labour Party politician
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy (1909-1997), British Labour Party politician, MP from 1945 to 1983, best known as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983

Charlotte Despard, political activist and writer
Charlotte Despard, nee French (1844-1939), suffragette, novelist and Sinn Fein activist. She was an active member of the Labour Party, and joined, in turn

On 13th November 1887 a demonstration organised by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League in Trafalgar Square in London turned into a riot after police

Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava talking the the Hon. Charles Winn at the Primrose League Ball. Date: 1936

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

The Battle of Flodden, Northumberland, between England and Scotland, 9 September 1513, part of the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516). Hand-to-hand fighting at the height of the battle

Plan of Flodden Field, Battle of Flodden, Northumberland, between England and Scotland, 9 September 1513, part of the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516). Date: 1513

Banner of the revolution - Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin
The banner of the revolution in the strong hands of Komsomol (The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) (1925) by Nikolay Alekseyevich Kasatkin (1859-1930) Date: 1925

Housewives Conference, 1947
Page from The Sphere, 20 September 1947 reporting on the Housewives League Meeting at Central Hall

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Stovel Co. bowling team champions 1908-09 of the Saratoga (lanes) com bowling league. Date: circa 1910s

Tomb of the Blessed Alberto da Bergamo, 13th century. Marble sculptures with man on horseback holding scales (top), and Savior flanked by an angel and a monk (Alberto)

Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League Lord Cromer, President of the Mens League
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator, and President of the Mens League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. 1910

Cartoon, The New Marshal (George Potter)
Cartoon, The New Marshal -- a comment on a large and turbulent demonstration by the Reform League in Hyde Park which had taken place some months earlier

Dog owners given free licences
Over 200 free licences were given to dog owners too poor to pay the 7s. 6d. tax. The licences were presented at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch

Photograph of the dolly sisters in fluffy white costumes for their Pony Trot. Until the end of the League of Notions revue

Interpretation of the League of Notions, 1921
Jean de Bosscheres interpretation of the opening scene of the " League of Notions", a poppular revue in London. Bosschere was a famous Belgian artist and writer. Date: 1921

Suffragists putting up posters in London 1908
Two women putting up a posters in London. The Womens Freedom League encouraged its members to plaster buildings with posters demanding votes for women as a form of passive protest

Tariff Reform League Campaign Card
A campaign card by the Tariff Reform League shows a hop farmer complaining that cheap imports of hops will lead to his ending up in the workhouse. Date: 1908

Football trophies, medals and caps - Sheriff of London Charity Shield, Winners Medals and Losers Medal, Medal presented to each member of the team that heads the Southern League

The demonstration march 1928
A modest demonstration march of The force was formed from the Labour League of ex-Servicemen, known as the L.L.Ex. Their uniform was reminiscent of the Russian Red army uniform complete with a Soviet

The British Red Army at Leytonstone
Commandant J. Snooks, who served during the First World War as a Lieutenant, and Mrs. Campbell, the Commandant of the Womens Section

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