Politics Collection (page 23)

The General Election - The Candidates Vision
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - The Candidates Vision. The glorious reception given to Josh Binks M.P. 1908

The General Election - Village Politicians
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Village Politicians. A local candidate giving a speech to the assembled clientelle at the local rural boozer... 1908

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles

The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - An Enthusiastic Supporter rolling-in after a hearty session of seemingly liquid-based campaigning!! 1908

President Ronald Reagan Date: 1980

Chief Justice John Jay 1794 Date: 1794

Big Ben and Houses of Parliament - Inset portrait of Balfour
Tower of Big Ben and Houses of Parliament - inset portrait of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour and Conservative Prime Minister between 1902-1905. Date: circa 1904

France. Liberal Revolution, 1848. National Assembly invaded
France. Liberal Revolution, 1848. Popular uprising to force the abdication of King Louis Philippe of Orleans and proclaim the Second Republic (Days 22 to 24 February)

Lord John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840), British Whig statesman and colonial administrator. He served as Ambassador to Russia (1835-1837). Date: circa 1832

Charles Robert Spencer, sixth Earl Spencer (1857 - 1922), before that Viscount Althorp until he succeeded to the title in 1910, British courtier and Liberal politician

Clare Sewell Read
Date: 1875

Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland
Date: 1884

Valentine Browne
Date: 1881

John Blundell Maple
Date: 1891

Hugh Cecil Lea (1869 - 1926), British Liberal Party politician and newspaper proprietor. Caption: East St. Pancras. Date: 1907

Rainald Knightley
Date: 1881

Frederick Knight
Date: 1884

Frederick S. A. Hanbury-Tracy, Vanity Fair, Spy
FREDERICK STEPHEN ARCHIBALD HANBURY-TRACY (1848-1906), British Liberal Party politician and Member of Parliament for Montgomery from 1877 to 1885, and again from 1886 to 1892

Algernon W. F. Greville, Vanity Fair, Spy
ALGERNON WILLIAM FULKE GREVILLE, 2nd Baron Greville (1841-1909) British Liberal politician, Member of Parliament for Westmeath, Ireland (1865-1874)

Sir Charles Forster, Vanity Fair, Ape
SIR CHARLES FORSTER, 1st Baronet (1815-1891) English Liberal politician and MP for Walsall. Sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1891. Caption: An Amateur Whip Date: 1815 - 1891

Edmond G. Petty-Fitzmaurice, Vanity Fair, Spy
EDMOND GEORGE PETTY-FITZMAURICE, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846-1935) Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906. British Liberal politician and Member of Parliament for Calne from 1868 to 1885

Thomas Collins MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
THOMAS COLLINS MP (d.1884) British Conservative Member of Parliament for Knaresborough. Caption: Noisy Tom Date: died 1884

Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson (1916-1995), Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, British Prime Minister, pictured in one of the rooms at 10 Downing Street in Whitehall, London. Date: 1966

Underground Meeting in the Puteaux Quarries, Paris 1869
Underground meeting in the Puteaux Quarries, during the Paris elections. Date: 12 November 1869

Lady Astor, first UK woman Member of Parliament 1919
Lady Astor, the first woman Member of Parliament in the UK, as reported on the front page of The New Illustrated. Date: November 1919

CHINESE PROPAGANDA
Chinese propaganda against the French depicting them making fat from human bodies and then using the fat to make soap Date: 1892

27TH IPU CONFERENCE
Delegates listen attentively at the 27th conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (established in 1889) held in Bucharest, Romania Date: 1931

GERMAN POLICE IN TOGO
A German-controlled native African police troup, the Haussars in Lome, Togo, West Africa. Date: 1930s

BRETON NATIONALISTS
Members of the Breton Independence Movement in Britanny, northern France, the last Celtic stronghold in the country, said to have the support of Irish and German extremists. Date: 1930s

THE NORTH WEST FRONTIER
Indian soldiers guarding the barrier marking the border of the North West Frontier between British India and Afghanistan. Date: 1930s

DELUDED COMMUNISTS
Deluded Russian peasants at Vladivostok parading with banners of Lenin (left), Marx (centre) and Trotsky (right), when an uprising against Bolshevism seemed imminent. Date: early 1930s

IDEAL ARYAN MAN, WOMAN
The ideal German man and his ideal mate. He conceals his private parts with a club with which he will thump her if she doesnt do as he tells her, or burns the supper... Date: 1896

Holloway and Suffragette
Holloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910

ELECTORAL TURNOUT 1978
At Conservative Party headqarters, the voter turnout is studied Date: 1978

POLLING STATION 1978
A mother takes her daughter with her when she goes to vote at the polling station Date: 1978

COUNTING VOTES 1978
The votes are counted up but who will win? Date: 1978

CASTING A VOTE 1978
A woman casts her vote on polling day Date: 1978

ELECTION NOTICES 1978
Notices explain to the voter the practices of the election Date: 1978

COUNCILLOR / VOTER 1970S
The councillor-elect Rupert Kinross talks to a constituent in Shepperton Date: 1970s

HOUSE OF COMMONS 1970S
A view of the empty House of Commons Date: 1970s

Cartoon, All Over!! (parliamentary session)
Cartoon, All Over!! British MPs depicted as glove puppets, discarded by Mr Punch the puppetmaster as the 1886 parliamentary session comes to an end. Date: 1886

Cartoon, An Exit Speech (Gladstone)
Cartoon, An Exit Speech -- Gladstone is isolated and unpopular in his arguments over the Irish Question. Date: 1886

BRITISH IN EGYPT / 1893
A protector: a French satire on the British presence in Egypt Date: 1893

POLITICAL DEMO H. PARK
A large crowd marches on the way to Hyde Park, as part of a political demonstration. Date: 1905

WHITE HOUSE DEMO 1987
An anti-nuclear demonstrator pitches a stall directly opposite the White House in Washington DC, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Date: 1987

NOTTINGHAM RIOT 1865
An election riot takes place in Market Square, Nottingham. Date: 1865

FOOD RIOT IN BERLIN 1915
A riot over food supplies breaks out in wartime Berlin. Date: 1915

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