Unemployment Collection

Jarrow Crusade
Unemployed from Jarrow during their Hunger march to London Date: October 1936

Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover, Derbyshire
Dennis Edward Skinner (b 1932), Labour politician, MP for Bolsover since 1970. Well known for his outspoken remarks in parliament, for which he has been suspended more than ten times

Patriotic poster, Buy British, keep the home fires burning
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Buy British and keep the home fires burning. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Sea wall and esplanade, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. A memorial stone forms part of the wall, dated 1922-1923. The sea wall

Patriotic poster, Team Spirit, Buy British
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- It is the Team Spirit that gets there. Buy British and pass your wages to another member of the British team

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler
An Allegory of Social Strife, a painting by Archibald Ziegler. A reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike. late 1920s

People campaigning against cuts, Ilford, Essex
People campaigning against cuts in education and social services, Ilford, Essex, 28 May 1976. Date: 1976

Peoples March for Jobs 1983
The Peoples March for Jobs, organised by the Trades Union Congress, reaches London in early June 1983. It had set off from Glasgow on 23 April Date: 3 June 1983

People's March for Jobs 1981 Petition
At 10 Downing Street, thousands of petition forms are handed in to Ian Gow, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary, by Eric Varley, Labour MP for Chesterfield

Midlands Peoples Campaign 1982
A demonstration by the Midlands Peoples Campaign, one of several organised in September 1982 to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed. Date: September 1982

People's March for Jobs 1981
The People's March for Jobs, which set off from Liverpool on 1st May 1981 to highlight the plight of the unemployed. The core group of 500 was joined each day by many more

George Melly
Jazz and blues singer George Melly (1926 - 2007) performs at the free concert held in Brockwell Park, south east London, in support of the 500 marchers who had walked from Liverpool to London

Welsh hunger marchers 1934
Some of the hunger marchers who marched from South Wales to London in protest at the Unemployment Insurance Bill, which would set dole rates at a national level

Norman Tebbit -- satirical comment
A group of people on a Right to Work demonstration, with a satirical comment on the words of the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit to the unemployed to "Get on yer bike

John Miller campaigning against Dunlop closures
John Miller, British journalist and author, with others, campaigning against closures and redundancies at the Dunlop works in Skelmersdale, Lancashire. Date: circa 1982

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

Comic postcard, Vicar, woman and five children Date: 20th century

Out of work, Trafalgar Square, London
Two out of work men, Trafalgar Square, London. Date: circa 1930s

Mounted police and unemployed demonstrators, London
Charge of mounted police on unemployed demonstrators near Bow Street Magistrates Court, London, October 1931. 1931

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Watch Unemployment dwindle
Buy British and watch unemployment dwindle. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis, reinforced by a speech by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

Patriotic poster, Buy British, British Business
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- How Bills new boots bucked up British Business! Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Patriotic poster, Buy British, Merrie England once again
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Buy British, Merrie England once again! Buy British and put a smile back into British trade

Patriotic poster, Buy my produce, Buy British
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Buy my produce, I can then buy your goods. Buy British and create employment throughout the country

Patriotic poster, It must be British
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- It must be British! She helps you to keep your job. Buy British and help her man keep his

Patriotic poster, Buy British and create employment
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Buy British and create employment. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Which of these do you use and are yours British? Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Patriotic poster, Buy British and make your job secure
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- The safe policy for you, Buy British and make your job secure. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Patriotic poster, Give and Take, Buy British
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Give and Take, Empire Products for Britain, British Manufactured Goods for the Empire, Buy British and help British labour at home and overseas

Patriotic poster, Be British and Buy British
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- Be British and Buy British (quoting a speech by the Lord Chancellor at the Guildhall on 9 November 1931)

Unemployment rioting in Whithall
Unemployment rioting in Whitehall. Date: 1920

Study, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler
Study for a painting, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler. A reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike. late 1920s

Drawing, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler
Preparatory drawing for a painting, An Allegory of Social Strife, by Archibald Ziegler. A reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike. late 1920s

Hell, drawing by Archibald Ziegler, a preparatory study for his painting, An Allegory of Social Strife, a reflection on postwar mass unemployment and social unrest, recalling the 1926 General Strike

Unemployed Lancashire manufacturers 1932
Group of unemployed men and women haunting gateways of mills, factories and pits looking for work. A typical street scene in a Lancashire manufacturers town during the period of trade depression

Bethnal-Green Employment Relief Association 1868 Bethnal-Green Employment
Labour-yard of the Bethnal-Green Employment and Relief Association, in East London. The stagnation of trade which followed on the commercial crisis of 1866

March of Unemployed Men and Women - Demo in Hyde Park
The National Hunger March of September October 1932 was the largest of a series of hunger marches in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s

Distress in Lancashire: mill-hands work on Preston Moors
The distress in Lancashire: mill-hands at work on Preston Moors. Unemployed operatives levelling waste ground on the north side of the town, over seen by inspectors

Lloyd George Card
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE depicted as responsible for introducing unemployment insurance, requiring the licking of stamps

Cartoon, Robert Soutar, actor, and Meyer Lutz, composer
Cartoon, Robert Soutar (left, 1830-1908), English actor, comedian, stage manager, writer and director, and Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (right, 1829-1903), German-born British composer and conductor -- A Month

The distress in Lancashire: Sewing for unemployed girls, 1862
Sewing school for unemployed factory girls, Zion Chapel, Stretford Street, Manchester. The girls, ranging in age from sixteen years old to adult women, have free use of the premises

Meeting of workers unemployed in Trafalgar Square. London. United Kingdom. Engraving by Rico in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1886

Registering Unemployed
Registering the unemployed at Chelsea, London, 1887. Date: 1887

Unemployment in Britain in 1903
Unemployed workers processing along the Strand, London - not a one-off event but a daily happening Date: February 1903

The industrial crisis in Lyon: unemployed French workers. Date: 1884

Men Chop Firewood at Morning Post Embankment Home
Men chop firewood at a home on Londons Embankment sponsored by the Morning Post newspaper during a period of severe unemployment. Date: circa 1920

Lloyd George, unemployment cartoon 1921
Work for All. Come on everybody, and lend a hand, this isn t a one-man job! Prime Minister Lloyd George tries to rescue a half-drowned man representing trade from the river of unemployment while

Lloyd George tries to charm unemployment, cartoon
The Charmer. I trust I have not overrated the mollifying power of music, says Prime Minister Lloyd George as he tries to charm the cobra of unemployment

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