Meeting Gallery

Vasco da Gama in India

Portuguese Colonial History Series - Vasco da Gama has an audience with The King of Calicut (Kozhikode), the Samudiri (Zamorin) in May 1498. The navigator was received with traditional hospitality, including a grand procession of at least 3, 000 armed Nairs, but an interview with the Zamorin failed to produce any concrete trade results. Date: 1498

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Suffragettes Pankhurst and Gawthorpe Rutland 1907

Christabel Pankhurst and Mary Gawthorpe in the Market Place, Uppingham, holding a meeting during the 1907 Rutland bye-election. The campaign saw Mary Gawthorpe the victim of dirty tricks by supporters of the Liberal candidate, W.F Lyons. Sylvia Pankhurst later gave an account of an incident when Mary was struck on the head by a pot-egg (a china dummy egg) and knocked unconscious. Youths were apparently paid by a wealthy Liberal supporter to hurl sweets at suffragette speakers (see Votes for Women 6th August 1909) Polling was held on11th Juneand the Conservative was duly elected. Date: 1907

© The March of the Women Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

British Empire Marketing Board poster - Takoradi Harbour

Native Chiefs in Palaver, Takoradi Harbour in Ghana, West Africa. Native chiefs meeting a British official or governor of the area during a period when large parts of Africa still formed part of the British Empire. The poster, by G. Spencer Pryse boasts of British materials and British engineering and the fact that the harbour was opened by the Rt Hon. J. H. Thomas (who may be the British officer in uniform in the picture)

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ONSLOW AUCTIONS LIMITED