Peace Collection (page 12)

St Peter and St Paul Chapel dedicated to peace
St Peter and St Paul timber-built chapel -- the Latin inscription over the door mentions London and Westminster, and states that the chapel is dedicated to peace in Britain. Date: circa 1910

Buddhist Monk at Wat Phan Tao Temple holding candle during Loy Krathong in Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: 2014

Aung San Suu Kyi as a child after her Fathers Assassination
A 2 year-old Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ), Burmese opposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD)

Angel with Glad Tidings on a Christmas card: Peace be within thy walls. Date: circa 1900s

Angel with birds and flowers on a greetings card
Angel with birds and flowers (doves and lilies) on a greetings card, with words from a hymn. Date: circa 1900s

Cartoon, The useless trap, WW1
Cartoon, The useless trap. Kaiser Wilhelm asks Chancellor Bethmann if he thinks the enemy will recognise his dove, which is really a two-headed eagle with white feathers. Date: 1917

Cartoon, At Erfurt (1808), showing Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander at the time of their peace treaty, together with ladies of the theatre in what looks like a theatrical re-enactment. Date: 1808

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

Cartoon, Its all about understanding each other, WW1
Cartoon, Its all about understanding each other. A haughty young German soldier and a meek old Frenchman stand together in a room, giving little sense of equality or negotiation. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The peace treaty, WW1
Cartoon, The peace treaty. An imaginary peace treaty with a sword sticking into a German eagle, and the signature of Rosalie (a nickname for the French bayonet) signed in the eagles blood below

The Audience of the Peace-speaker by H. M. Bateman
" Lo! The poor Timid un! The Audience of the Peace-speaker!" This illustration comments on how war-fever has gripped the nation

Cartoon, Westminster Conscripts under the Training Act, by James Gillray. Showing Napoleon training a group of British politicians, including Charles James Fox

Cartoon, Pacific Overtures, or, a Flight from St Clouds over the Water to Charley, a new Dramatic Piece now Rehearsing, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Middlesex Election, 1804, a Long Pull, a Strong Pull, and a Pull All together, by James Gillray. Showing Sir Francis Burdett in a carriage labelled Peace & Plenty

Cartoon, Political Dreamings, Visions of Peace! Perspective Horrors! by James Gillray. Showing William Windham, British War Minister, asleep and dreaming in bed, surrounded by visions

Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks out
Cartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918

Kaiser as a waiter: a WW1 peace conference imagined, 1915
Taking orders: a forecast of the peace conference. Kaiser Wilhelm II is re-imagined as a waiter, taking orders from George V, Theodore Roosevelt and other leaders. Date: 1915

When Peace Comes Along by Heath Robinson, WW1
A Last Use for the Ole Siege Howitzers. A big gun converted into a receptacle for milk on a horse-drawn cart. Ideas for what to do with old war machinery

Riverside scene with boats. Date: circa 1930s

The Graphic Peace Conference Number 1919
Front cover of The Graphic magazine commemorating the Peace Conference of that year, illustrated with a map of Europe and the words, The Problem for Paris. Date: 1919

WW1 - Peace Talks in Paris, France, 1919
WW1 - A illustration of a giant gargoyle sitting of the city of Paris, as if waiting on the news from the peace talks. Date: 1919

Parisians celebrate peace treatry, France, 1919
A series of photographs recording of French citizens celebrating the peace treaty in the streets of Paris. From jubilation in the city, German guns being dragged through the streets

WW1 - Peace Talks - The Problems of Peace"
WW1 - Comic illustration regarding the pending treaty and talks of peace in Paris. Date: 1918

London in 1919 - a vision of the Thames
An impression of the River Thames during the Peace Day celebrations in London, July 1919. Date: 1919

Peace Day in Trafalgar Square by Eduardo Matania
Revellers in Trafalgar Square dancing and waving flags during the Peace Day celebrations in London, July 1919. Date: 1919

Peace Celebrations in London, July 1919
Symbolic display of temporary martial statues in Oxford Street outside Selfridges department store, part of the street decorations in London for the Peace Day celebrations

Victory Procession, July 1919
American troops arriving at Hyde Park Corner from Buckingham Palace - part of the Peace Day celebrations in London following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Date: 1919

Parade, Sabden, Lancashire
Parade, Sabden, Clitheroe, near Padiham, Lancashire, England. Showing Sabden Peace Day celebrations Date: 1919

Peace day Sports - Tug of war Date: 1918

Peace day Sports. Line of students balancing books on heads Date: 1918

Quarry & The Village, Peak Dale, Derbyshire
Quarry & The Village, Peak Dale, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Showing the Peace Day Celebrations Date: 1918

Mike St. Maur Sheil, photographer of the Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 14-18 exhibition at the pre-launch exhibition at the Houses of Parliament in London holding the Loos football Date: 2013

General Stores Building, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
The General Stores Building, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, where the Russian and Japanese Peace Commission met before the signing of the peace treaty in September 1905

WW2 Christmas card, looking forward to peacetime. Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, Keep Going... for a Happy Christmas. The message inside reads: A message of cheer this Christmastide / To help to KEEP GOING along the steps / That lead towards a just

Cartoon, The civilian husband, WW1
Cartoon, The pacific (ie civilian) husband. He says after the war he will regret not having seen anything. His wife replies that he will regret not having done anything. Date: 1915

Blessed are the peace makers. Date: circa late 19th century

Feast given at the Chateau de Versailles in celebration of the Peace at the end of the Seven Years War, 1763. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924). US President (1913-1921)

Exchange of Princesses Anne of Austria and Isabella of Bourbon in the Isle of Pheasants on the river Bidasoa the November 9, 1615. Work c. 1615 attributed to Pieter van der Meulen

BESNARD, Paul Albert (1849-1934). First World War (1917). Peace for Victory (La Paix par la Victoire), illustration for la D馥 nse Nationale(French National Defense, 24th November, 1917)

The Persuading of the Pacifist, by W. Heath Robinson
The Persuading of the Pacifist -Even more unpleasant than swallowing his own words A William Heath Robinson cartoon depicting a falling bomb landing directly in the mouth of a speech-making pacifist

In the Wings by Bruce Bairnsfather
Peace still waiting in the wings at the British Empire, whilst the famous crosstalk comedians Conference Brothers present their latest and greatest absurdity - Versailles

S Peace by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Old Bill, the soldier character created by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, finds himself, at long last, in civvies and contemplating, in astonishment, a world at peace. Date: 1919

Those Frontiers by William Heath Robinson, post WW1
A little disagreement as to the exact line. Two men bicker over a line of territory, have a scrap and then see that while they have been fighting

WWI Poster, Each recruit brings peace nearer
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Each recruit brings peace nearer. With Allied flags on either side. Date: 1915

Moss Bros advertisement, end of WW1, demobilisation
Advertisement for Moss Bros Ltd, naval, military and civil outfitters informing customers of the changes at the store due to demobilisation following the end of the First World War

Squaring Trafalgar Square by Heath Robinson
For " England Expects" - Anything on Peace Night. Trafalgar Square in the heart of London with all its monuments - Nelsons Column

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