Placard Collection

Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women. Cat in a straw hat, placed at a jaunty angle, wears a large placard which reads, Votes for Women Date: circa 1908

Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step. Written by Montague Ewing, cover illustration by Reginald Rigby with suffragettes in the colours, one holding a hammer

Bathing Belle Parade
Three disgruntled beauty queens look particularly annoyed at a sassy woman in a red bikini holds a placard boasting that she can cook too!

Suffragette Lilian Lenton in Court 1913
A newspaper placard dated Wednesday, June 11, 1913, with the headline, Miss. Lentons Reappearance. Lilian Lenton (1891-1972)

Devonshire Place, Lisson Grove, London
Devonshire Place (or perhaps Devonshire Place Mews), Lisson Grove, near Paddington, London. A crowd - mostly children with a few adults - has gathered. Someone holds a placard aloft

Suffragette, An Easter Prophecy. Suffragette hen with chick, rabbit and eggs. The hen carries a Votes for Women placard and the rhyme reads, When hens all join the suffrage ranks

Salem With Museum. Placard. Massachusetts. united States

Demonstration to keep Horley and Charlwood in Surrey
A group of people on a demonstration in the middle of a road, holding banners and placards, determined to keep Horley and Charlwood in Surrey

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London. Placards read: Black Dwarf, Axel Springer Today! Cecil King Tomorrow

Caricature of crying baby holding a placard, by Phil May
Caricature of crying baby in a dress, holding a placard, More pap, no more spanking, we don't want to go to bed, we won't be washed. Captioned, The Babies Strike'

19th Century 20th Century Aivazovsky Armenian
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19th Century 20th Century Aivazovsky Autonomous
19th, Century, 20th, century, Aivazovsky, Autonomous, Republic, of, Crimea, burial, cemetery, contemporary, Age, peninsula, date, death, fence, Feodosia, Feodosiya, grave, inscription, Ivan

Overseas students demonstrating over fees, London
Students from Hong Kong, studying at Queen Mary College, demonstrating outside their government's London office, December 1980

Staff and students campaigning against fee increases
Academic staff and students of SOAS (the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London) campaigning against tuition fee increases. Date: 1977

Children demonstrating to save school playing fields
Children demonstrating to save their school playing fields, Havering, Essex. Date: circa 1970s

Little girl demonstrating for nursery places, Hackney
Little girl with a placard, demonstrating for more nursery places, Hackney, London, 22 May 1978. Date: 1978

Children and adults demonstrating against nursery cuts, May 1972. Date: 1972

Child campaigning against nursery cuts, Lewes, Sussex
A child and several mothers campaigning against cuts in nursery education, Lewes, Sussex, 17 June 1980. Date: 1980

Children campaigning against cuts in free school milk
Children campaigning against planned cuts in free school milk and other services, October 1970. Date: 1970

Children campaigning against education cuts, Essex
Children campaigning against education cuts in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, March 1982. Their placards read: No Cuts, and I Need My Teacher. Date: 1982

Children campaigning against education cuts, Sussex, May 1981. Their placards read: No Art, No Music = No Joy, The Unkindest Cuts, Keep Nursery School, and Save School Swimming. Date: 1981

Children campaigning against education cuts, Bristol
Children campaigning against education cuts, April 1977. The walkout and march from a Bristol comprehensive school was organised by the NUSS (National Union of School Students). Date: 1977

People campaigning against cuts, Ilford, Essex
People campaigning against cuts in education and social services, Ilford, Essex, 28 May 1976. Date: 1976

Trainee teachers campaigning against education cuts
Trainee teachers from the College of All Saints campaigning against education cuts, June 1976. Date: 1976

People Campaigning Campaign Tory Conservative
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Members of London Peace Action campaigning against war toys outside a Toy and Hobby Fair at Earls Court, West London, 3 February 1981. Date: 1981

Official picket line outside Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable
Official picket line with placards outside Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable. Date: circa 1970s

Building workers dispute, Lambeth, South London, 19 July 1977. Date: 1977

LSO musicians supporting BBC musicians, London
London Symphony Orchestra musicians supporting BBC musicians outside Broadcasting House, London, 27 June 1980. The strike by BBC musicians began when the BBC put forward plans to discontinue five

Dispute Disputes Protest Protesting Industrial
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GEC workers campaigning, GEC Headquarters, London
GEC workers campaigning outside the GEC Headquarters in London during a lockout from the Keith Blackman works at Tottenham, 18 March 1970. Date: 1970

NALGO union members campaigning with placards
NALGO (National and Local Government Officers Association) union members, gas office and fitting staff, campaigning with placards outside the headquarters of the North Thames gas board, 14 July 1981

APEX union members campaigning with placards
APEX (Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff) union members campaigning with placards to demand equal pay for women. Date: circa 1970s

Members of NUTGW campaigning
Members of NUTGW (National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers), NATSOPA (National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants)

Members of DATA campaigning, Tothill Street, London
Members of DATA (Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians Association) from Rolls Royce, Coventry, campaigning in Tothill Street, London, 21 August 1970

Anti-Tory demonstration with Morning Star banner
Anti-Tory demonstration on a London street with a Morning Star banner and Socialist Worker placards. Date: circa 1980

Young Communist League demonstration, London
Young Communist League members demonstrating outside the American Embassy in London, 28 April 1980. One of them is holding up a copy of the Morning Star newspaper with the headline

Protest, National campaign against rent increases
Adults and children taking part in a protest by the National Campaign against rent increases in Walsall, West Midlands, 29 March 1982. Date: 1982

MPs protesting about housing cuts at the Department of the Environment, 19 February 1981. On the left is Gerald Kaufmann, Labour MP. Each MP carries a placard giving statistics for their area

Politics Political People Demonstration March
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People Before Profit demonstration, London
A People Before Profit demonstration in Upper Street, Islington, North London, against rent increases and property development. Date: 1974

Spanish Civil War. International Brigades. Arrival to Barcelona of the American volunteers to fight with the international column. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

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

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

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