Orators Collection

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

ISOCRATES (436-338 BC). Ancient Greek rhetorician and one of the ten Attic orators. From the book Pinacotheca imaginum illustrium by Gian Vittorio de Rossi (1577-1647). Engraving. SPAIN

Aeschines (389-314 BC). Greek statesman. Bust
Aeschines (389-314 BC). Greek statesman, one of the 10 Attic Orators. Bust. Roman copy. From Bitolia (Macedonia). British Museum. London. England

George Robey & Horatio Bottomley recruiting in London
Popular music hall star, George Robey, known as the Prime Minister of Mirth, pictured speaking at a recruitment rally in Trafalgar Square, London in 1915 alongside Horatio Bottomley

Charles Phillips - 2
CHARLES PHILLIPS Irish lawyer and writer : this French engraving is from a series of Orators of the English bar, so his fame must have crossed the Channel ! Date: 1787 - 1859

Against Espartero
In Seville and elsewhere there is growing antagonism to Esparteros government : street orators exhort the populace to insurrection

Demosthenes in Disgrace
DEMOSTHENES Athough later regarded as the greatest of Greek orators, he is seen here hiding his face after the failure of his first badly delivered speech

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