Meetings Collection

Gathering of Unions / 1832
THE GATHERING OF THE UNIONS Three meetings organised by the Birmingham Political Union, held at New Hall Hill during May, maintain the pressure for electoral reform

Peterloo Massacre
The Peterloo Massacre (forcible dispersal of a Reform Meeting in St Peters Fields, Manchester) 16 August 1819 Date: 16th August 1819

A Quaker meeting in the 19th century

Soundwell Demo
A typical local meeting supporting the Cause - participants in a protest meeting at Soundwell, Avon, pose for their photo on the lawn of the Salem Chapel

Suffragettes Plain Things at Meeting. A bevy of buck-toothed, grinning suffragettes applaud the speaker at a Votes for Women meeting

University Of London Senate House & Library Senate Room
A photograph which shows the spacious Senate Room, with tiered seating and wood panelling, at the University of London Senate House and Library, designed between 1932 and 1937

The Archbishop of Canterbury addressing Working Men: Newcas
The church congress at Newcastle, in which the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time (Frederick Temple (Nov 1986- Dec 1902) addresses 6000 working men

Coaching Club
The Coaching Club holding a meeting at Hyde Park. Date: 1932

Recruitment poster, London, WW1
Recruitment poster, London's Patriotic Recruiting Meetings. Come even if you cannot fight, Follow the Bands Date: 1914

The Church Army Waggon, Cambridgeshire
The Peterborough evangelist Church Army waggon at Barnack near Stamford. These horse drawn vans toured the district often staying for a few days in some villages

A group of men and women sit around a table holding a board meeting. A (female) secretary takes notes. Date: circa 1970

Fashionable society at the Ascot meetings : near the bandstand during an interval between the races. Date: 1901

Dail Eirann opened in Dublin - Sinn Fein declaration
The Dail Eirann opened in Dublin - a Sinn Fein declaration of independence. The opening of the Sinn Fein parliament in Ireland - the Dail Eirann at the Mansion House, Dublin. Date: 21st January 1919

Great Demonstration in the Albert Hall 1908
Some ten thousand women gathered at the Embankment, then proceeded to march, in neat rows of either 4 or 6, to the Royal Albert Hall, London

The Vale of Health
View of the Vale of Health, Hampstead, London. Those who wished to attract visitors or new residents invented and promoted the Vale of Health name, which was first recorded in 1801

Group of women at a meeting
A group of women at a meeting. circa 1950s

Mow Cop Castle, Cheshire, became a National Trust property in 1937. It was thought to be the birthplace of Primitive Methodism as a venue for open-air meetings. circa 1930s

Meeting opposing the grant to Maynooth
Great meeting at the London Tavern to oppose Prime Minister Sir Robert Peels proposal to increase government funding of Maynooth College, a Catholic theological school in Ireland. Date: 1845

Aspects of the inner parliamentary life of Irish members: " The members of no other Party make so much use of the House of Commons as the Nationalists

Office Conference Room Date: 1947

EXETER HALL / MEETING 1844
Exeter Hall: interior view, with a large May Meeting in progress (many charitable organisations held their meetings there) Date: 1844

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Leap Year Proposal
A dis-shevelled suffragette with a hammer and a bag of stones appeals to John Bull. Militant suffragette - I have smacked policemen, broken windows, assaulted ministers, broken up meetings

Suffragette Cat Will Have The vote
Another fierce and feisty feline sets out her objective - The Vote. I Will Have It. Taking no notice of the police notice banning political or other meetings, by order! Date: circa 1908

Various delegates badges from annual summer meetings

Business Meeting / 1960S
A board meeting takes place. A group of men sit around the board table smoking and discussing various issues

Invitation card, Inner Wheel Club, Tunbridge Wells, Kent -- Lecture Programme for 1938 and 1939. Date: 1938

Government office building
Ottawa, Canada - showing a government building in which various meetings took place about sending volunteer firemen to England

Government Building Ottawa
One of several government buildings used for meetings about the formation of the volunteer fire force. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters

Womens Rights / Meetings
Suffragettes at a meeting Date: 1908

A Heritage of Hate by Arthur Shirley
Promotional postcard for A Heritage of Hate by Arthur Shirley, from the novel by Charles Garvice (1899). First produced at the Junction Theatre, Manchester, 6th January and Aldwych Theatre

Cartoon, Zimmerwald pacifism, WW1
Cartoon, Zimmerwald pacifism. A man representing the Zimmerwald peace movement offers an olive branch to some French soldiers

Winston Churchill at Waltham Abbey by-election 1924
Mr Winston Churchill is seen here speaking at a meeting at Waltham Abbey, Essex, during the 1924 Epping by-election which he won. Date: 1924

Suffragette Protests at Liberal Meetings. Handbill/leaflet issued by the National Womens Social & Political Union, giving reasons why they will continue to protest at Liberal meetings

Suffragette Meeting Exchange Flags Liverpool. A suffragette addresses a group of men at Exchange Flags Liverpool in October 1909

Officers with hat of a conscientious objector, WW1
Page from The Bystander showing two officers holding the battered remnants of a bowler hat belonging to a peace crank orator in Trafalgar Square, London

George Robert Tapp, spiritualist, member of the Dalston Association of Enquirers into Spiritualism. He attended meetings during which the medium Florence Cook materialised the spirit of Katie King

Chilonda, Bie, Angola - Women off to hear Gospel Meetings
Chilonda, Bie, Angola - Women heading off to the villages to Gospel Meetings - everyone is travelling in the back of a van! Date: circa 1930s

The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Tolpuddle, Dorset, England. In this cottage in 1834, six agricultural labourers held trade union meetings over poor pay, which led them being transported to Australia. Date: 1834

Mile End Scandal - Three Crowns Public House
In 1907, builder James Calcutt was convicted of fraud after regularly overcharging the Mile End Old Town Board of Guardians for work he had carried out

Fighting it Out at Glorious Goodwood
Artists impression of a fighting finish at Goodwood, described in The Bystander magazine (from where this image is taken) as the most popular and prettiest of meetings

London Republicans in 1872
London Republicans gather at The Hole in the Wall in Chancery Lane, London, England Date: 1872

Meeting in Church
The Communards are no respecters of the Church : a communist club holds its meetings in the eglise Saint- Eustache, near les Halles

Masdrid Meeting
Resistance to Isabelas heavy- handed rule - to say nothing of her notorious private life - is fomented by political meetings calling the citizens of Madrid to decisive action

Demo at the Bolshoi
Meetings and demonstrations are an everyday occurrence in Moscow : this one is held for a change in front of the Bolshoi theatre

Suffragettes in France
Emmeline Pankhurst (seated on left) and her secretary (miss Lawrence) visit their French sisters to compare notes : Mme Schmahl welcomes them at a Paris meeting

American Revival Meeting
CAMP MEETINGS are popular social as well as spiritual events among the rural population, often provoking spectacular outbreaks of communal enthusiasm

Board Meeting
A boardroom meeting possibly of a firm of shipbuilders. The six members of the board sit around an oval table on top of which sits a ships model in a glass case

Digging in the Catacombs
Early Christians, with pick, shovel, and a flaming torch, dig themselves secret places for their meetings in the Roman catacombs

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