Movement Collection (page 4)

Portugal Strikers on the streets in Lisbon. Men seen on top of a street tram car in protest. The strike was by the Workmen's Federation of Lisbon as a reply to the action of the Government in

Medieval war machine. Catapult. Parabolic motion machine, used to launch long-distance projectiles. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2019

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona province. The Strike of Igualada. Striking workers from the textile workshops, in the act of being harangued by their president. Engraving by Vela

The Grazny Staw Tarn - Blizzard, 1892, by Witkiewicz
Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1851-1915). Polish painter. The Grazny Staw Tarn - Blizzard, 1892. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Beet-lifting, 1893, by Leon Wyczolkowski (1852-1936)
Leon Wyczolkowski (1852-1936). Polish painter of Young Poland movement. Beet-lifting, 1893. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Four-in-Hand, 1881, by Jozef Chelmonski (1849-1914). Detail
Jozef Chelmonski (1849-1914). Polish painter. Four-in-Hand, 1881. Detail. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Japanese Bizen Ware Sacred Horse and Attendants - earthenware item dating back to the early 18th century, when ovens were established at Korakuen for firing pottery

H. Desbrowe Annear, Esq
A portrait pencil drawing of the influential Australian architect, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement and designer of the Federation Arch, Princes Bridge in 1901

A Setting For Princess Turandot in a Moscow Theatre
A setting for Princess Turandot, an opera by Carlo Gozzi, directed by Evgeny Vakhtangov. Date: circa 1932

Fish
The influence of Western naturalism upon the Japanese tradition of calligraphic drawing is shown in this water colour and one can also trace in it the influence of Western composition

Suffragette political cartoon, Louis Wain
Suffragette political cartoon, Comical Cats, by Louis Wain. Date: 1914

The Love Thermometer
Picture postcards were used as one of the early expressions of the Surrealist movement. This couple seem oblivious of each other and the thermometer above their heads

Climbing a Serac in the Alps
A surreal image of climbers ascending an ice pinnacle or serac in the Alps. Picture postcards were used as one of the early expressions of the Surrealist movement Date: 1904

Vintage Photograph China c. 1900 - Boxer rebellion or uprising, Yihetuan Movement - image from an album of a British
Vintage Photograph China c.1900 - Boxer rebellion or uprising, Yihetuan Movement - image from an album of a British soldier who took part of the supression of the uprising - Liugong Island

WW2 poster, They are planning their future. Are you? Save with a plan. Post Office Savings Bank, National Savings Certificates. For ways of saving - ask the officer who pays you. Date: circa 1942

WW2 poster, Worth Fighting For, Worth Saving For! For ways of saving, ask the officer who pays you. National Savings to help the war effort. Date: circa 1940

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. Founder and organisation of the Boy-Scouts to promote good citizenship. Wearing khaki uniform designed by himself for South African wear

Suffragettes Die Ghouls of Fleet Street
The Grim Reaper with the Press Barons, who cry Let the Women Die! Date: June 12th 1914

Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I British
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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

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La Revolucion y la Guerra son inseparables (Revolution and War Are Inseparable). Poster edited by CNT-FAI

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster on a conference by Federica Montseny in Valencia (6th June 1936). SPAIN. Madrid. Fundacion de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)

Spanish Civil War El Dret Es Guanya Per Les Armes
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Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Union! Disciplina! Por el Socialismo (Union! Discipline! For Socialism). Lower section of a poster made by Carles Fontsere for the POUM

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Mujeres libres (Free Women). Poster of the anarchist trade union CNT. SPAIN. Madrid. Fundacion de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Paso a la Mujer! (Make Way to Woman). Poster of the Spanish Communist Party. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Command Death Swan Dance Dancing Dances Dancer
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Victor Hugo - On deathbed
Victor-Marie Hugo (18021885) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885

Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944), English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Photograph when she composed The Wreckers produced at Queen's Hall. Date: 1908

Chartist petition procession
A print of the chartists procession of 1842 taking the great national petition of 3, 317, 702 signatures to the House of Commons

Celebrities at Mandela birthday concert
Stars who took part in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday tribute concert in Wembley stadium, London. They include American actress Daryl Hannah. Date: 11th June 1988

Oxford anti-apartheid demo
Student demonstrators stand outside Oxford cricket ground to protest against the South African Touring team's upcoming game against the university

Anti-apartheid demo at Lord's
A street full of people outside Lord's cricket ground on the first day on the England v South Africa Second Test Match

Protest against Lions playing South Africa
Anti-Apartheid Movement demonstrators picketing in Twickenham to stop the British national rugby team playing against South Africa. Their placards read don't play with apartheid'. Date: c

MPs anti-apartheid demo
Two Labour MPs Ms. Audrey Wise and Mr. Neil Kinnock take part in a demonstration against the trial of Nelson Mandela and apartheid in South Africa. The latter holds a placard reading free all S

Shell petrol boycott
A group of protesters stand outside a Shell garage holding placards calling for people to boycott Shell fuel due to the company's links with South Africa and apartheid. Date: c. 1988

Collection for South African rail strike
Two men brandish collection buckets for the South African rail strike to support Rail Against Apartheid. Signs show that the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Mike Terry Leader Speaking Annual General Meeting
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Anti-apartheid demonstrators
Anti-Apartheid Movement demonstrators behind barriers, holding placards reading Freedom for Mandela, Forward to freedom in Namibia and South Africa

Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Banks at anti-apartheid demo
Jeremy Corbyn MP and Tony Banks are pictured at an Anti-Apartheid Movement demonstration in London, holding up documents reading solidarity with South-African and Namibian miners

Nelson Mandela Freedom March
Demonstrators leaving Manchester as they take part in the Glasgow to London Nelson Mandela Freedom March of 1988. Children join in the demonstration

Celebration of Mandela's release
A young black woman raises a bottle of champagne in the air in front of a large image of Nelson Mandela as the whole crowd celebrates his release after twenty-seven years in prison

Demonstration supporting Nelson Mandela
A crowd of demonstrators calling for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. A large banner reads Mandela the world is with you'. Date: 1980s

Female engineer at work
Miss Anne James, Lubrication Engineer (Tribiologist) of Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd. working on some machinery

Suffragette Movement Social Political Union Wspu
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Charlotte Marsh (1887 - 1961)
Charlotte Marsh, one of the leading figures in the suffragette movement. A promininent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she was arrested several times

GUSTAVE COURBET, French artist
Gustave Courbet 1819 - 1877, innovative French artist of the Realist movement and member of the Paris Commune Date: 1871

Camouflage v Camouflage During Invasion Practice
William Heath Robinson has come up with a solution to save on man-power in the East Coast of England. Revolving helmets being paraded around on a primitive pulley system with the locals clapping

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