Politics Collection (page 21)

Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, WW1
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France during the First World War. 1910s

Parliament of the time of Henry V
Interior of Parliament, around the time of Henry V. Date: 15th century

Privy Council seated around Henry V
Members of the Privy Council also know as Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council, were exclusively men, a body of advisers to the sovereign, her showing seated around the king of England at the time

Political poster, Vote for Hambro, design by Winnie Burnand. Showing the Liberal Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman trying to keep the lid on Irish Nationalism

Political poster, Chinese Labour -- a commentary on British gold mining activities in the Transvaal, South Africa. circa 1906

Oliver cromwell dissolving Parliament
Oliver Cromwell dissolving the long Parliament. Date: 20 April 1653

Cartoon comment on Prime Minister Charles Grey
Cartoon, Politics - a comment on the Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey. circa 1833

Cartoon, The Irish Church Bill, 1833. Date: 1833

Women members room at the House of Commons
The room at the House of Commons formerly occupied by General Seely as Under-Secretary for Air, and set apart in 1919 for Lady Astor

Englands New Voters, 1928 - Caricature by Garretto
Impression by Garretto of the new women voters in 1928, the year in which British women finally gained electoral parity with men

Crown Prince of Sweden meeting Emperor of Russia
The Crown Prince of Sweden meeting the Emperor of Russia at Abo (Turku, now in Finland). Probably at the time of the Treaty of Abo, marking the end of the Russo-Swedish War (1741-1743). 18th century

Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Poster. 1951

Beer Politicians by Edmund Harburger

The General - Flora Drummond - suffrage campaigner
Flora Drummond Suffragette. Mrs. Florrie (Flora) Drummond of the W.S.P.U, also known as General Drummond, pictured in The Sketch magazine in 1912. Date: 1912

Millicent Fawcett
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929), suffragist and early feminist, co-founder of Newnham College, Cambridge, and president of the moderate National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)

Sir Philip Stephens, British politician
Sir Philip Stephens (1723-1809), British politician (becoming Father of the House of Commons in 1796), friend of Captain James Cook. circa 1800s

Sir James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, Whig politician
Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. early 19th century

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), British barrister and politician, serving as Lord Chancellor for a number of years during the early 19th century. circa 1810s

General John Burgoyne, British army officer
General John Burgoyne (1722-1792), British army officer, dramatist and politician. circa 1770s

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806), British lawyer and Conservative politician. He served as Lord Chancellor for fourteen years under four different Prime Ministers. circa 1790s

Richard Potter, English Liberal politician
Richard Potter (1778-1842), English Liberal reformist politician, MP for Wigan, founding member of the Little Circle which helped to put through the Reform Act of 1832. Date: circa 1830s

Cartoon, General Gordon, Called Back -- Gladstone sees a vision of Gordons death in the Sudan. 1884

Disraeli statue, Parliament Square, London
Statue to Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, in Parliament Square, London. circa 1901

Statue of Gladstone in The Strand, London
Statue of William Ewart Gladstone by Hamo Thornycroft in The Strand, London. circa 1901

Procession of the Catholic Ligue through the streets of Paris - passing the Rue du Marche Palud Date: 1590

Cartoon, Essence of Parliament (MPs)
Cartoon, Essence of Parliament -- Mr Punch shows members of the House of Commons as microscopic bugs in a petri dish. 1883

Monument to Marques de Sa da Bandeira, Lisbon, Portugal
Monument to Marques de Sa da Bandeira (1795-1876), Lisbon, Portugal. He was a nobleman and politician who served as Prime Minister five times and was a defender of the abolition of slavery

Cartoons, W H Smith as Secretary for War - a Fancy German Portrait, and the Reality. William Henry Smith, newsagent, bookseller and Conservative MP

Joseph Chamberlain in his Library, Princes Gardens, London
Joseph Chamberlain in the Library of his Princes Gardens home in SW London. circa 1900

Joseph Chamberlain, as a Birmingham City councillor
Joseph Chamberlain, early portrait as a Birmingham City councillor. 19th century

Cartoon, Sir Thomas William Boord, 1st Baronet (1838-1912), British Conservative politician, MP for Greenwich. circa 1870s

Sun Yat Sen and wife with first plane manufactured in China
Sun Yat Sen (1866-1925), one of the leaders of the Chinese Revolution of 1911, first president and founding father of the Republic of China, and his wife Soong Ching Ling (1893-1981)

The riots in Belfast
The police charging the mob in the brickfields, demonstrating against the First Home Rule Bill, introduced by the British Prime Minister, William Gladstone. Date: 1886

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

Man refusing - Outstretched arms with open palms
Book cover design: No politics please by Don McGregor, Finchley Labour Party, 1946 Date: 1946

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

Sarah Churchill (7 October 1914), daughter of Winston Churchill, at the age of 21 1936

Poster, The Poor Mans Burden -- Lloyd Georges Budget on food, beer, tobacco and spirits. Date: circa 1909

George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen - Chancellor
The Augmentative Y. George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831-1907) - Financier and then Director of the Bank of England and later Chancellor of the Exchequer (1887-92). Date: 1900

Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Aspiring H. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) - Chancellor of the Exchequer (1892-1895) - seated by the bedside of the church - bearing medicine for Bishops. Date: 1900

Sir Edward George Clarke and Joseph Chamberlain
A Queer C. Sir Edward George Clarke (1841-1931), British Statesman and Lawyer and (in background, shooting) Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914). Date: 1900

Charles James Fox speaking out in Parliament against slavery
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), British Whig Statesman, MP and ardent anti-slavery campaigner, shown here speaking out in Parliament against the slave trade

EDENs VISIT TO RUSSIA
Anthony Edens meeting with Josef Stalin in Moscow, described as the first visit of a British minister to Soviet Russia since the Revolution. Date: 1935

Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898), delivering the Peroration of his Speech on the Introduction of the Home Rule Bill, granting Ireland limited self-rule within the British Empire

Otto von Bismarck playing the penny whistle, German Emperor William I and Russian bear dancing alone to the music. Date: 1875

GERMAN WAR LOAN POSTER
German war loan poster from World War One, featuring a flag forming the shape of a heart torn in two with the slogan Rend Englands might circa 1915

FLORENCE RIOT 1921
Rioters in Florence, Italy engage in a pitched battle with the police. Date: 1921

Little Fritzs birthday: a proper little Prussian Date: 1896

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