Meeting Collection (#33)

Preston wage dispute
George Cowell addresses an open air meeting of factory operatives in The Orchard, Preston, Lancashire, during the strike resulting from a wages dispute

Official Programme for the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles
The Official Programme for the Games of the Xth Olympiad, held in Los Angeles, USA

Duke of Beauforts Hunt
The Beaufort Hunt meeting at the village of Tytherton in Wiltshire. The Duke of Beauforts Hunt is one of the oldest and largest of the fox hunting packs in England

Model of Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb
A small scale model of Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Central Square was laid out by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and includes St Judes Church, The Free Church and a Quaker Meeting House

Modern Athenians plate 48 - Edinburgh
Charles Cuningham, City Clerk, meeting with Adam Black (1784-1874) twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh, publisher and founder of the A & C Black publishing company, publishing the 7th

Modern Athenians plate 45 - Edinburgh
Mr Robert Mercer (1797-1875) meeting Alexander Youngson; his second drawing by the artist, after apparently being hurt pairing him with the Dr Syntax charater

Modern Athenians plate 16 - Edinburgh
Two members of the Faculty of Advocates, Mr Robert Forsyth (c. 1764-1845) meeting on the streets of Edinburgh with Mr John Shank More (c. 1784-1861)

Meeting of settlers and Maoris, New Zealand 1863
Meeting of European and Maori inhabitants of the province of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, held at the Pah Whakairo, a native village near Napier

Hotel Victoria, Damascus, Syria
Hotel Victoria in Damascus, Syria - famous for a meeting between Allenby, King Faisal and Lawrence of Arabia

Repeal Meeting at Tara, Ireland
Repeal Meeting at Tara Hill. Crowds gather to hear Mr O Connell make a speech. Tara Hill marks the spot where Irish royalty had traditionally been elected

Morocco - Reunion of the Diplomatic Corps who had met originally at the Conference of Algeciras, held between (January 16th and April 7th 1906)

Zambia - Spitting on Hands Greeting
Zambia - Spitting on Hands as a form of traditional Greeting

The Introduction / W Heath Robinson
The Introduction. A man traveling by car in one direction is introduced to a lady traveling by car in the opposite direction by a third party, also in a car

Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White Hou
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister and Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President, at a press conference at the White House following their historic meeting to discuss the Allied war effort

Keir Hardie at a suffragette meeting
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish Labour leader and politician giving a speech in Trafalgar Square, London

Kaiser Wilhelm II in Constantinople during WWI
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany visits Constantinople during WWI and meets a group of German Nurses

Historic Meeting / Reval
NICOLAS II OF RUSSIA pictured with his wife and children at Reval (now Tallin) in Estonia on the occasion of his historic meeting with his uncle Edward VII

Bma Approves Nhs
The British Medical Association special representative meeting lasts seven hours, and agrees to co- operate in the new national health service

Dr Guy Dain Speaks / 1948
Dr H.Guy Dain, chairman of the British Medical Association, speaks at a special meeting in opposition to the terms of the proposed national health service

The Mayors of Liverpool and Birkenhead Meet under the Mersey
Margaret Beavan (centre), the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, shaking hands with the Mayor of Birkenhead (right) at the meeting of the two halves of the Mersey Tunnel, 1928

La Route Aux Courses by Edmund Blampied
An impression of a typical scene on the road to the racecourse at Dinard. The all-conquering motor has not yet entirely ousted the more elegante horse equipage

Mr Churchill rung down by a Suffragettes bell
A photograph of Winston Churchill addressing a meeting of workmen at a factory. Ms Molony, an Irish Suffragist, arrived in a carriage and attempted to drown the speakers voice with a bell

London County Council Meeting, 1890
Engraving showing a London County Council Meeting at Spring Gardens, 1890

Irish Unionist Meeting in London, 1886
Engraving showing the Great Unionist Meeting at Her Majestys Opera House, Haymarket, London, April 1886. A patriotic audience (bottom) acclaims Earl Cowper (centre, standing)

The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Team, 1890
Photograph showing the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Team which competed at the Australasian Championship Meeting in Sydney, May 1890. The men shown are (left to right): J.H. Hempton; F.C. White; H.M

Sketches of the Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square, 1886
Engraving showing a series of sketches of the Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, in November 1886. The images show (clockwise from top left)

A Meeting at the Front Door
Engraving showing a dramatic moment as a woman opens her front door, on a dark and wet night, to a tall, dark man, 18th century

Rotunda Blackfriars
A service in the Rotunda in Blackfriars Road, a meeting place for independent worshippers

Picture No. 10220706
Russias most famous horsemen meeting a charge by going line ahead and closing on the enemys flanks. Date: I

Ladies Land League meeting, Ireland
Authorities dispersing a meeting of the Ladies Land League in Ireland

Experience by Frank Reynolds
A small boy, meeting his soldier father who is home on leave during World War I, admonishes his parent for his muddy boots, with the words, " I say, you ll cop it when muvvers sees your boots

U. N Conference, London
A general view of the delegates of the preparatory commission of the United Nations at the inaugural meeting at Church House, Westminister

The Potsdam Conference; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing the leaders of Great Britiain, the Soviet Union and the United States of America meeting at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

Emigration. Emigration to Australia. Farewell Group Meeting
Mass meeting of would-be emigrants to Australia, supported by the Family Colonisation Loan Society, set up by Mrs Chisholm

Group Meeting of the Family Colonisation Loan Society, 1852
Mrs Chisholm set up the Family Colonisation Loan Society to enable poor families to save regularly to cover the cost of emigration. Donations were also made by the wealthy

Petrograd Workers Vote
Workers at the Putilov factory, who played a crucial role in the Bolsheviks seizure of power, at an election meeting for the Petrograd Soviet

Political Meeting
Meeting to discuss possible political candidates in a democratic club

Political Meeting Athens
A political meeting in Athens : dissatisfaction with the Bavarian king Otto leads to insurrection, Othon is deposed and flees to Venice

International Peace
Theres a meeting of the International Peace League in the salle Herz - much needed, for almost every country in Europe is either waging war or planning to do so

Clandestine Meeting
A clandestine meeting of republican reformers : this year its only talk, but next year it will be revolution

Political Meeting 1
A political meeting is held in the former quarries at Puteaux

Meeting the Brits
Napoleon meets a delegation of British businessmen : his encouragement of commerce gives France a period of stability and prosperity

Political Meeting 2
A political meeting is held in the former quarries at Puteaux

Meeting at Lyon
At Lyon, Napoleon and Eugenie happen to run into the dowager empress of Russia, who is staying at the Hotel de l Univers

The Inside of a School - or the first meeting - after the -
A satire on the return of Fox to Parliament, for a debate on the peace overtures from France, having left in 1797. He is in the centre of the classroom wearing a fools cap labelled Truant

Meeting the Tsar
When the tsar of Russia visits Bordeaux, Napoleon and Eugenie visit him on board his ship in the harbour

Le Creusot Strike 1

W. E. Gladstones Cabinet of August 1892
Engraving showing the first meeting of Gladstones new Cabinet Council, 1892. Those illustrated are: Top row, left to right: Mr. Henry Fowler, Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, Mr

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