Unionist Collection

Ulster 1914 - Patriotic Postcard
Patriotic Postcard from Ulster, 1914 depicting an Ulsterwoman with a gun, standing up for the British flag and her views as a Loyalist Unionist

Enoch Powell, controversial British politician
(John) Enoch Powell (1912-1998), British politician and Conservative MP from 1950 to 1974

Earl of Clarendon, Vanity Fair, Spy
EDWARD HYDE VILLIERS, 5th Earl of Clarendon (1846 -1914) Lord Hyde between 1846 and 1870. British Liberal Unionist politician and sportsman. Caption: The Lord Chamberlain Date: 1846 - 1914

Ulsters Oath - The Bulldog will not submit to Home Rule
Remember Castledawson (a UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force) stronghold in County Derry

William Clive Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman (18641935) - British Conservative politician and peer

Ben Rubner, General Secretary of the FTAT union
Ben Rubner (1921-1998), General Secretary of the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT) from 1976 to 1986

Joseph Alfred Sparks campaigning
Joseph Alfred Sparks (19011981) - a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician

George Woodcock, TUC General Secretary
George Woodcock (1904-1979), British trade unionist and TUC General Secretary from 1960 to 1969. Date: 1963

The Ulster Slogan - Vote Early and Vote Often - woman voting
Woman seen voting during the Ulster elections of 1921. Date: 1921

Margaret Bondfield - Labour MP - 1st female cabinet minister
Margaret Grace Bondfield CH PC (1873-1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and womens rights activist

Colonel John Ward MP - trade unionist

Three mine workers in America
The United Mine Workers (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in an 1897 strike by the soft-coal miners in the Midwest, winning significant wage increases and growing from 10, 000 to 115, 000 members

The Funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant
The funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) in Washington, D.C. 8th August 1885

Election map, How England has voted at the Elections'. With description, How England Has Voted at the Elections; The black squares show Unionist and the white Liberal and Labour

Caricature illustration of Rt Hon Sir Edward Carson, speaking in lawyer's wig and gown, holding spectacles, by Starr Wood, caricature artist, (1870-1944)

But Who Will He Belong To? General Election 1910
Adapted drawing from a painting by Joshua Reynold of United Kingdom not knowing which way the election would go

Mr Austen Chamberlain. Part of Box 104 Boswell Collection

Scargill Arthur Speaking Speech Rhetoric Left
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Scargill Arthur Sitting Audience Conference 1938
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Arthur Scargill, miners leader and trade unionist
Arthur Scargill (b 1938), miners leader and trade unionist. Seen here sitting in a deckchair at a seaside resort, probably during a conference. Date: circa 1980s

Hugh Scanlon, British trade union leader
Hugh Parr Scanlon, Baron Scanlon (1913-2004), British trade union leader. Seen here giving a speech at a conference. Barbara Castle can be seen in the background on the left. Date: circa 1970s

Ron Todd, General Secretary of the TGWU
Ron (Ronald) Todd (1927-2005), General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) from 1985 to 1992. Seen here (left) with a colleague at a conference

Emanuel Shinwell, trade unionist and Labour politician
Emanuel (Manny) Shinwell, Baron Shinwell (1884-1986), British trade union official and Labour politician, MP and government minister. Date: circa 1940s

David Warburton, trades unionist, at a conference
David Warburton (b 1942), British trades unionist with the GMWU (General and Municipal Workers Union), seen here at a conference reading a copy of the Morning Star newspaper. Date: circa 1970s

David Wetzel, trades unionist in the transport industry
David (Dave) Wetzel (b 1942), trades unionist (TGWU) with a background in London Transport and Transport for London, where he began his working life as a bus conductor, driver and inspector

Sidney Weighell, British footballer and trade unionist
Sidney Weighell (1922-2002), British footballer, trade unionist and General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen from 1975 to 1983. Seen here speaking at a conference. Date: circa 1980s

Jimmy Reid, Scottish trade unionist, journalist, etc
James "Jimmy" Reid (1932-2010), Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician and journalist

Christina Page, trades unionist
Christina Page (1920-1997), trades unionist, member of USDAW and the TUC. She joined the Labour Party in 1945, then later joined the Communist Party. Date: circa 1970s

Gordon McLennan, communist and political activist
Gordon McLennan (1924-2011), former leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain, its National Organiser 1966-1975 and its General Secretary 1976-1989

Mick McGahey with Arthur Scargill, trade unionists
Mick McGahey (1925-1999), Scottish miners leader, trade unionist and lifelong communist, with Arthur Scargill (b 1938), miners leader and trade unionist

Mick McGahey with Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield
Mick McGahey (1925-1999), Scottish miners leader, trade unionist and lifelong communist, with Arthur Scargill (b 1938), miners leader and trade unionist, and Peter Heathfield (1929-2010)

Mick McGahey, trade unionist and communist
Mick McGahey (1925-1999), Scottish miners leader, NUM trade unionist and lifelong communist. Seen here around the time of the 1980s miners strike. Date: circa 1980s

Mick McGahey with Arthur Scargill, trade union leaders
Mick McGahey (1925-1999), Scottish miners leader, trade unionist and lifelong communist, with Arthur Scargill (b 1938), miners leader and trade unionist

Tony Blair and Brenda Dean at a conference table
Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, b 1953), Labour politician, Prime Minister 1997-2007

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

Andrew Bonar Law (1858 - 1923), British Conservative politician who served as Prime
Andrew Bonar Law (1858 - 1923)

Cartoon, The New Marshal (George Potter)
Cartoon, The New Marshal -- a comment on a large and turbulent demonstration by the Reform League in Hyde Park which had taken place some months earlier

Unionist posters for the General Election, & their artists
A selection of Unionist posters designed for the 1910 general election campaign. Pictured are their artists, from left, Edward Huskinson, John Hassall and G. R. Halkett. Date: 1910

Rachel Parsons
Miss Rachel Parsons, (18851956) British engineer, pictured here when she was Unionist candidate for Lancashire in the 1923 General Election. Date: 1923

Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen (1844-1909) was a businessman and Conservative politician. From 1887 to 1900 he was president of the Jewish Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Poor

Lady Tweedsmuir and daughter Joanna by Madame Yevonde
Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC (nÚÑáThomson; 25 January 1915 11 March 1978), Unionist and Conservative politician and wife of Johnnie Buchan

The annual celebration of the Relief of Derry, attracted a large group of nationalist protesters in Londonderry

MARGARET GRACE BONDFIELD English trade unionist and politician. The first woman chairman of the Trades Union Congress in 1923. Date: 1873 - 1953

Sir Edward and Lady Carson on their wedding day
Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935), Irish barrister, judge and unionist politician, seen here on his wedding day with his bride, formerly Miss Ruby Frewen. They married at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset

Memorabilia portrait of Ulysses S. Grant. " Let us have peace". 1822- 1885

H. M. Stanleys Expedition crossing the Makata Swamp, Central
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanleys expedition crossing the Makata swamp in Central Africa, 1871

Petersburg, Virginia; American Civil War, 1864
Engraving showing a panorama of Petersburg, as viewed from General Lees headquarters, 1864

Ulsters Appeal - Unionist postcard
Ulsters Appeal - Intreat me not to leave thee.... (Ruth 1:16) - The personification of Ulster pleads with England not to abandon her, whilst Scotland (holding the Act of Union) stands passively by

Mr John Burns
John Elliot Burns(1858-1943) radical statesman and trade unionist, pictured in 1886 at the time of his incendiary speech that was credited with causing the riot in Trafalagar Square in February 1886

Mr Joseph Chamberlain. Part of Box 104 Boswell collection.Joseph Chamberlain (8 July 1836 2 July 1914) was a British politician and statesman

Jos Chamberlain Speaks
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN addresses a Liberal Unionist meeting in the Music Hall, Edinburgh. Date: 1836 - 1914

British coalition cabinet, 1915
The Coalition cabinet for the Great War : Liberal, Unionist, Labour, Irish, Non-Party, with a key to whos who

Henry Wiggin
Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet (1824 1905), metals manufacturer and Liberal (and later Liberal Unionist Party) politician. Date: 1892

WW1 Womens Joy Loan Day 1919
A souvenir in commemoration of the Womens Joy Loan Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square, Saturday, 28th June 1919. This included a procession leaded by Lady St. Helier and others

John Jackson
Sir John Jackson (1851 1919), Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, from 191018. Caption Docks and Harbours. Date: 1909

Jimmy Thomas - British trade unionist & Labour politician
James Henry " Jimmy" Thomas (18741949) - British trade unionist and Labour (later National Labour) politician. Date: 1926

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (18541935) - an Irish barrister, judge and unionist politician. Date: 1926

Arthur Balfour, British politician, giving a talk
Arthur Balfour, British politician and former Prime Minister, giving a talk on lawn tennis at Panshanger, home of Mr Almeric Paget

Thomas H. A. E. Cochrane, Vanity Fair, Spy
THOMAS HORATIO ARTHUR ERNEST COCHRANE, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults (1857-1951) Scottish soldier and Unionist politician. Caption: North Ayrshire Date: 1857 - 1951

Sir William Anson
SIR WILLIAM REYNELL ANSON, 3rd Baronet (1843 - 1914) British jurist and Liberal Unionist politician. Became Warden of All Souls College in 1881. Caption: All Souls Date: 1901

James Henry Thomas
JAMES HENRY THOMAS British trades unionist and Labour politician Date: 1874 - 1949

Wm. Prowting Roberts
WILLIAM PROWTING ROBERTS lawyer and trades unionist, attorney-general to the Miners Association of Great Britain. Date: 1806 - 1871

John Burns - caricature by Phil May
Caricature by Phil May of John Elliot Burns (18581943) - an English trade unionist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Date: 1892

Satire on Irish Home Rule - Husband punched by wife (who in Green symbolises one side of the Irish struggle)

Political speech in Hampstead, 1940s
A candidate from the Hampstead Conservative Unionist Association makes a speech outdoors from a pedestal to an attentive audience of exactly two. 1940s

Creative ways of electioneering, 1910
A model dreadnought emblazoned with posters and the candidates names encourages voters in Taunton in Somerset, while boats in Portsmouth are smothered with posters for the Unionist candidate

Canvassing for Votes in Derby, 1910
Three images depicting candidates canvassing for votes in Derby during the General Election of 1910

Tom Titt / John Burns
John Elliot Burns. British trade unionist and politician

Tom Titt / Will Thorne
William James Thorne, known as Will Thorne. British trade unionist, activist and one of the first Labour Members of Parliament

Tom Titt / Edward Carson
Sir Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson. Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, senior barrister and judge

Irish Unionist Meeting in London, 1886
Engraving showing the Great Unionist Meeting at Her Majestys Opera House, Haymarket, London, April 1886. A patriotic audience (bottom) acclaims Earl Cowper (centre, standing)

H. M. Stanleys meeting with Forest Pygmies, Central Africa
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-America explorer and journalist, meeting with some forest pygmies, during one of his expeditions to Central Africa

Sir Robert Horne (1871-1940)
Photograph of Sir Robert S. Horne, then Conservative-Unionist MP for Hillhead, Glasgow, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1922

President Jefferson Davis bidding farewell to his escort, 18
Image showing the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, and bidding farewell to his escort at the end of the American Civil War, 1865

Andrew Bonar Law MP, (1858-1923)
Portrait of Andrew Bonar Law, the Scottish Statesman, Unionist MP and Prime Minister, made in 1923

A Member of H. M. Stanleys expedition threatening a baggage
Engraving showing a member of Sir Henry Morton Stanleys expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone threatening a baggage porter, Central Africa, 1871

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl of Bewdley, with some Constituents
Photograph showing Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), Conservative Politician (centre), talking to some of his Bewdley Constituents at the annual meeting of the Bewdley Divisional Unionist Association

The Civil War in America: retreat of the Federalists (Unioni
Minor battle at Balls Bluff, showing the retreat of the Unionist soldiers into the river

The Civil War in America: Hatteras spit with the wreck of th
Panorama of a wreck at sea from the American civil war, Unionist ship, City of New York

The Civil war in America. gallant charge of Federal (Unionis
Federal (Unionist) troops charge into Fairfax to release two Federal prisoners about to be hanged by the Confederates, on 31st May 1861

Battle on the James River; American Civil War, 1864
Engraving showing the Texans of Longstreets Corps retaking the outer line of entrenchments, on the south side of the James River, from the Unionist army

Confederate sharpshooters firing at a supply train, American
This lively and vivid sketch shows Confederate snipers attacking a Unionist wagon train, near the Tennessee River, 1863. The wagon train was trying to supply local Union troops

The Civil war in America. Attack by Federal gun boats on For
Federal gun boats attacking Confederate Fort McAllister, reflecting the increasing success of the Unionist Navy under Flag Officer Farragut

American Civil War: Colonel Fitch and the 46th Indiana volun
Unionist soldiers storm the battery at Fort St Charles, Arkansas

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