Speaker Collection

William Pitt the Younger addressing Parliament
William Pitt (the Younger) addressing the House of Commons

The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan - The Auditorium. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres Chain. The first theatre to be designed to incorporate a speaker system for sound

Suffragette Votes for Women Meeting. Leaflet/flyer issued by the National Womens Social & Political Union, advertising a public meeting at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, March 5th 1909, Mrs

Keir Hardie addressing suffragettes at Trafalgar Square
Keir Hardie (1856-1915), founder of the Labour party, addressing suffragettes at a free speech meeting in 1908 - Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1834-1913)

WOMENs RIGHTS DEMO / 1906
A Womens Social & Political Union demonstration in Hyde Park

Suffragette W. S. P. U Pinner Constance Lytton
Suffragette W.S.P.U Pinner Constance Lytton. The Pinner, Middlesex, branch of the Womens Social and Political Union, captioned on reverse, W.S.P.U Garden Party given by Mr. & Mrs

Princess Elizabeth first broadcast, 1940
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) making her first radio broadcast on 11 October 1940 to British children evacuated abroad to the United States and Canada. Date: 1940

Sylvia Thompson by Madame Yevonde
Sylvia Thompson, Mrs Luling (1902 - 1968), English novelist, writer and public speaker photographed by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1931

Traffic Accident Group
A Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker

Peel / Arthur Wellesley
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, first viscount PEEL son of sir Robert Peel statesman, Speaker of the House of Commons

Pankhurst & Gawthorpe
Christabel Pankhurst with Wspu Speaker Mary Gawthorpe

Suffragettes Plain Things at Meeting. A bevy of buck-toothed, grinning suffragettes applaud the speaker at a Votes for Women meeting

Comic postcard, Temperance speaker and audience Date: 20th century

Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) English writer, playwright and public speaker. Date: 1931

Military Speaker
A pastel painting which shows a crowd of people listening to a military man, who is speaking from an elevated position, onlookers are also viewing from the high terrace above. Date: circa 1920

Preparing loudspeaker for FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium
Preparing loudspeaker for FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium Date: 1946

Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), novelist and playwright, formal studio portrait smoking cigarette. Captioned, The After-Dinner Speaker Par Excellence

Graphophone, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Graphophone, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

The William Morris Clarion van
A man stands on a Clarion van under a banner reading Socialism talking to a crowd of people congregated around him. One holds a bicycle and other bicycles are visible by the van

George Thomas, British Labour Party politician
Thomas George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy (1909-1997), British Labour Party politician, MP from 1945 to 1983, best known as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983

Donald Soper, Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist
Donald Oliver Soper, Baron Soper (1903-1998), prominent Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist. Date: circa 1980s

David Blunkett, British Labour politician, giving a speech
David Blunkett (b 1947), British Labour politician, MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1987. He served as Education Secretary and Home Secretary

Ray Bernard, left-wing campaigner, giving a speech
Ray Bernard, a left-wing political campaigner, giving a speech in the street. Various people have stopped to listen. Date: circa 1950s

Leo McGree, communist and trades union activist
Leo McGree (1900-1967), member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and trades union activist Seen here taking part in a political rally

Joe Bent, Communist Party politician in Southwark, London
Joe Bent (Spencer John Bent) Communist Party politician in Southwark, south-east London. Seen here outside a Polling Station, talking with a voter

Tom Mann, trade unionist and public speaker
Head and shoulders portrait photograph of Tom Mann (1856-1941), British trade unionist and popular public speaker. This photograph was presented to Nellie Rathbone. Date: early 20th century

Tariq Ali speaking under an NUJ banner
Tariq Ali (b 1943), British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner and commentator. Seen here speaking under a National Union of Journalists (NUJ) banner. Date: 1991

Comic postcard, Temperance satire Date: 20th century

Advertisement for Western Electric wireless receiving apparatus showing a family listening to a loud speaker which was the same as used at the opening ceremony of the British Empire Exhibition in

Advert for Sterling Premax hornless loud speaker, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Sterling Primax hornless loud speaker, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Amplon wireless loud speaker, a product of the House of Graham, London, 1925 Date: 1925

A Little Disinfectant by H. M. Bateman
A speaker on a soap box, clearly with Communist leanings given the red flag, is sprayed by disinfectant, much to the delight of an assembled crowd. Date: 1932

Monument of Sir Richard Vernon and wife
Supposed monument of Sir Richard Vernon (c.1390-1451), English landowner, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons, and his wife, Benedicta de Ludlow, in St Bartholomews Church, Tong, Shropshire. 1864

Meeting of unemployed men on Tower Hill, London
Meeting of unemployed men on Tower Hill, East London. 1892

Colonel John Brown, Chairman of the British Legion, addressing an open-air gathering

William E Pussyfoot Johnson, American prohibitionist
William Eugene Pussyfoot Johnson (1862-1945), American campaigner against the consumption of alcohol, seated (right) at a table during an alcohol prohibition meeting in Britain. 1919

Dos for Public Speakers by H. M. Bateman
Dos for Public Speakersfrom the Public Speaking Club of America visualised by the cartoonist H. M. Bateman. Date: 1912

Joseph Hodges Choate - American Ambassador to the UK
His X cellency. Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) - The American Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1899-1905) - very popular

Cromwell dissolving the English Parliament
This illustration shows Cromwell asserting his authority in dissolving the English Rump Parliament on 20 April 1653. He is shown ordering the removal of the golden mace from Parliament. 1653

Speaker at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London. Date: late 1960s

Speakers at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, with several photographers alongside. A large banner behind them reads: Scrap Polaris. Date: late 1960s

A speaker addresses her fellow women revolutionaries in the church of Saint-Germain l Auxerrois during the Paris Commune Date: 1871

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

LARGE BANQUET 1863
A lone speaker holds forth at a vast formal banquet. Date: 1863

ELECTRO-CHEMICAL PHONE
Edisons Electro-chemical telephone. Date: 1879

HYDE PARK DEMO
Suffragettes speaking at a Hyde Park demonstration. Date: 14 July 1912

COMMUNE / MEETING
A woman addresses the crowd during a political meeting held in a church Date: 1871

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