Prime Collection (page 7)

Cartoon, The Honest Potboy (Disraeli and Reform)
Cartoon, The Honest Potboy -- a satirical comment on Disraelis presentation of his ideas for electoral reform. Prime Minister Lord Derby tells him not to froth it up this time

Cartoon, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (Disraeli, Gladstone)
Cartoon, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose -- a satirical comment on the rivalry between Disraeli (left) and Gladstone (right) over the electoral reform question

Cartoon, A Surprising Success (Electoral Reform)
Cartoon, A Surprising Success -- John Bull congratulates Lord Derby, Conservative Prime Minister, on his success in winning the Reform Stakes, using horseracing as a metaphor for electoral reform

Letter from William Prime Marshall to Walter Raleigh Browne
Letter, 7 Dec 1883 from William Prime Marshall to Walter Raleigh Browne accompanying an explanation of James Watts Sculpture copying machinery (eidograph) - see BAW/14/001-2. Date: circa 1809

Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, leaving 10 Downing Street, London, to enter his motorcar. 1911

Caricature, General Louis Botha, Prime Minister, South Afric
Caricature of General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa. 1910

Cartoon, Pudding Before Meat (Russell and Reform)
Cartoon, Pudding Before Meat -- Earl Grosvenor, Liberal MP for Chester, comments on Lord John Russell, Liberal Prime Minister, serving Pudding (franchise reform) before Meat (redistribution of seats)

Cartoon, A Dissolving View (Disraeli and Derby)
Cartoon, A Dissolving View -- Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Derby win the General Election, though only by a slim majority. The election results indicated clear support for Free Trade as against

Cartoon, A Chip of the Old Block -- Sir Robert Peel introduces his eldest son (Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, 1822-1895, who became an MP the following year) to Mr Punch. Date: 1849

Cartoon, The Protection Giant -- Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum! I smell the Blood of an Englishman; Be he Alive, or be he Dead, I ll grind his Bones to make my Bread

Cartoon, The Parliamentary Toots -- a satirical comment on Benjamin Disraelis criticism of Lord John Russells government. Mrs Blimber (co-owner of a school)

Cartoon, The Queen, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel
Cartoon, The Queen, Prince Consort, Lord John Russell, and Sir Robert Peel. A comment on the resignation of Peel as Prime Minister (27 June), and his replacement by Russell (three days later). 1846

British troops and Locals Memorial, Sint Michielsgestel
There is much erudite discussion about whether Operation Market Garden was a success or a failure. Certainly, the prime objective - to outflank the German defences along the River Rhine

Harold Macmillan elected M. P. for Stockton
Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), publisher, Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, appearing in The Illustrated London News in November 1924 after his election as M.P

Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), British Conservative Prime Minister, standing outside 10 Downing Street, London, at the time of the General Strike of 1926. 1926

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, outside 10 Downing Street, London. circa late 1930s

Vice-Admiral Kato Tomosaburo of Japan (1861-1923), Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese First Fleet, cabinet minister, and later 12th Prime Minister of Japan. Date: circa 1913-1914

General Louis Botha of South Africa
General Louis Botha (1862-1919) of South Africa, politician and Prime Minister. Date: circa 1913-1914

Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician
Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937), Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada. Date: circa 1913-1914

Herbert Henry Asquith, British politician
Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), British Liberal politician and Prime Minister. circa 1913-1914

Sedan chair of the Prime Minister, Qing Dynasty China
Sedan chair of the Prime Minister, Grand Colao, Qing Dynasty China, late 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Gentleman fencer in the second position of the Disarm on the Carte or Second Thrust, after the Prime Parade parry. Copperplate engraving by after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Mr

Gentleman fencer disarming his opponent on the Carte Thrust
Gentleman fencer disarming his opponent on the Carte or Second Thrust, after parrying with the Prime Parade. Copperplate engraving by after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Mr

Gentleman fencer in the return from the Prime parade to the Seconde and Low Carte thrust. Copperplate engraving by after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Mr

Gentlemen fencers in Prime parry and Seconde thrust
Gentlemen fencers in the Prime parade or St. George Guard parry derived from the broadsword, against the outside thrust under the wrist called Seconde

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Heston Aerodrome
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, returning from the Munich Conference, 30 September 1938, on a Lockheed Super Electra aircraft. 1938

Neville Chamberlain, PM, outside 10 Downing Street
Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, outside 10 Downing Street, London. circa late 1930s

Outbreak of WWII - crowds outside Downing Street
A large crowd gathered outside 10 Downing Street at 11 o clock on 3 September 1939, at the time the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain was broadcasting the announcement of war. Date: 1939

Herbert Henry Asquith, Liberal Party politician
Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928), Liberal Party politician, British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916. 1906

Handwritten address on a letter with red sealing wax
Handwritten address on a letter to the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth (John Wallop, 1767-1853), 61 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, from Spencer Perceval (1762-1812), British Prime Minister

Churchill cheered for Oran speech, 1940
After his Oran speech in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Winston Churchill(1874-1965) is cheered by his fellow MPs. After the bombing of the French Navy at Mers-el-Kebir

Lloyd George speaking at the Welsh National Eisteddfod
Prime Minister, David Lloyd George making a speech at the Welsh National Eisteddfod at Birkenhead in 1917. Date: 1917

Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal Prime Minister
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Liberal Prime Minister (1905-1908)

Ramsay MacDonalds Cabinet, first Labour Government
Group photo, Ramsay MacDonalds Cabinet in the first Labour Government. Front row (left to right): Adamson, Lord Parmoor, Snowden, Lord Haldane, MacDonald, Clynes, Thomas, Henderson

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

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

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

Cartoon of W E Gladstone as Bubbles
Cartoon of W E Gladstone as John Everett Millais Bubbles. 1887

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

Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Date: March 1905

Auberge de Castille, Valletta, Malta, originally designed in the 16th century to house knights of the Order of Saint John, rebuilt in the 1740s in Baroque style

New Port of London Authority Building opened by Lloyd George
The New Port of London Authority Building, Trinity Square, Tower Hill, London - opened by Prime Minister David Lloyd George on 17th October 1922. Date: 1922

Louis Botha (1862 - 1919), South African politician who was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. Date: 1916

Two suffragettes signing a petition for womens suffrage to be presented to the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, following the conclusion of a Womens March from Edinburgh to London Date: 1912

3rd Marquess of Salisbury - British Prime Minister
The Marks. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903) - British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years. Date: 1900

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour
The Indefinite Article - Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - Prime Minister (1902-05). Date: 1900

Stalin and Churchill at Yalta; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing Josef Stalin (1879-1953)(left), leader of the Soviet Union, and Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Prime Minister of Great Britain, at the Yalta Conference in the Crimea

Ramsay MacDonald and Benito Mussolini, Ostia, 1933
James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister, being welcomed to Ostia, Italy, by Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, 1933

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