Speaking Collection (page 4)

Gordon Brown, Labour politician, speaking at a meeting
Gordon Brown (James Gordon Brown, b 1951), Labour politician, MP from 1983, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997, and British Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010. Seen here speaking at a meeting

Tony Benn, Labour politician, speaking at a conference
Tony Benn (Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, 1925-2014), Labour politician, former Cabinet Minister and currently President of the Stop the War Coalition

Clement Richard Attlee giving a speech
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883-1967), British Labour politician, Labour Party leader 1935-1955 and Prime Minister 1945-1951. Seen here giving a speech on behalf of the Labour Party

Bernadette Devlin, political activist and MP
Bernadette Devlin (Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, b 1947), socialist republican political activist in Northern Ireland, MP for Mid Ulster 1969-1974

Cardinal Basil Hume and Fenner Brockway
Cardinal Basil Hume (George Basil Hume, 1923-1999, standing), English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Westminster from 1976, speaking at Central Hall, Westminster, London

Len Murray, Labour politician and trade union leader
Len Murray (Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, 1922-2004), British Labour politician and trade union leader. Seen here giving a speech at a TUC Conference. Date: circa 1970s

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

The Marquis of Salisbury addressing the House of Lords 1889
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury (1830 - 1903), English Conservative Statesman, speaking in the House of Lords on the recent death of John Bright

British protest to the Ferrer trial
Mr Victor Grayson speaking at the demonstration meeting at Trafalgar Square. Francisco Ferrer was accused of having taken a leading part in the Barcelona rebellion

DEVONSHIRE
SPENCER COMPTON CAVENDISH 8TH DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE (1833 - 1908), Politician, speaking in the House of Lords on 9 February 1892 on the death of Prince Albert Victor. Date: 1892

Leaves from life: a new series of studies by Edmund Blampied. The workers hard-won weekly leisure in A cobblers Sunday morning

Comic postcard, Little girl on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man on the phone to the doctor Date: 20th century

Kola Dancers. India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Kola tribal dancers, Munda-speaking peoples, NE India

Comic postcard, Temperance satire Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Votes for Women satire - We only want what the men have got!! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man on the telephone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl on the phone Date: 20th century

He: "I seed some of these ere Belguims to-day. They re a funny speakin people
He: " I seed some of these ere Belguims to-day. They re a funny speakin people; some on em yer can t understand what thay say." Date: 1914

Housewives Conference, 1947
Page from The Sphere, 20 September 1947 reporting on the Housewives League Meeting at Central Hall

Prime Minister Asquith - Commons Home Rule Bill debate
Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928), replying to Mr Walter Longs Amendment Speech in the House of Commons, declaring that it would be disasterous to proceed with the Home Rule Bill

Flemish Soldiers Memorial Crypt, Zonnbeke
The crypt is in the local cemetery. There was considersable acrimony between the French speaking population and those who spoke Flemish

Ernest Bevin giving speech at East Woolwich
Ernest Bevin giving a speech to socialist workers at his East Woolwich constituency after a period of illness. Continuing as foreign secretary

The Blue Lion Debating Club
Lively portraits of participants in political debate at the Blue Lion Debating Club. 1888

Cartoon, Dr Dulcamara in Dublin (John Bright)
Cartoon, Dr Dulcamara in Dublin -- a satirical comment on the radical Liberal MP John Brights visit to Dublin, where he was invited to speak

Cartoon, Lord Palmerstons Unpopular Exhibition -- a satirical comment on the Foreign Secretarys activities and interests, including a Spanish Marriage, the Confiscation of Cracow

Two lovers on mountain path
Young man and woman on mountain path. The quote is Henry IV speaking to Hotspur in Shakespeares play Richard II. Date: circa 1875

Cartoon, The Political Cheap-Jack -- Benjamin Disraeli, portrayed as a conman at a country fair, wooing his Buckinghamshire constituents during the General Election campaign, summer 1847. 1847

Speaking tube, c. 1870
Gentleman in his study using a speaking tube to communicate with another room. Date: C.1870

Charlatan speaking to group of people in Rome, Italy
A charlatan, probably a quack doctor, speaking to a group of people in a street in Rome, Italy. Date: early 19th century

Jean Froissart, chronicler, author and historian
Jean Froissart (c1337 - c1405), French-speaking chronicler, medieval author and Court historian. 14th century

Telephone
Smart woman in coat and cloche hat speaking on telephone

Lady on the telephone
Glamourous lady in white chemise speaking on telephone. Artist: E Cockroft Date: circa 1912

Samoset Visits Pilgrims at Plymouth
Samoset, an Abenaki Sagamore, or lesser chief, who had learned English from fisherman and sailors off Maine, walked into Plymouth colony and startled the pilgrim colonists by speaking English

Daniel O Connell (1775 - 1847), Irish nationalist leader. 1842

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

Lloyd George and Pankhurst as one voice 1915
David Lloyd George, British statesman at the time, speaking on the embankment, London; " We have witnessed a very fine procession of women who are anxious to help their country in the hour of

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

Radio broadcast, Lancelot White, 7-year-old elocutionist
Radio broadcast by Lancelot White, a 7-year-old elocutionist. 1924

The Parish Council Bill debated in the House of Lords
The Parish Council Bill in the House of Lords - Archbishop of Canterbury speaking on the second reading

House of Commons, debate on Irish Home Rule Bill
Gladstone speaking in the House of Commons during the debate on the Irish Home Rule Bill. circa 1886

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

Queen Mother at the English Speaking Union Dinner, New York
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel during a visit to New York in 1954 for a dinner of the English Speaking Union. On the left is William V

Lieutenant Colonel Charles de Salaberry, British army
Lieutenant Colonel Charles de Salaberry (1778-1829), a French-speaking Canadian who served as an officer in the British Army at the time of the American advance on Montreal during the 1812 War

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

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

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

Wycliffe explains his thoughts before the Archbishop
John Wycliffe (circa 1320s 1384) -an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford

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