Unionists Collection

Carson Speaks 1913
Edward Carson, leader of the Irish Unionists (1910-21) speaks out against Home Rule at a meeting in Belfast

Trade Union March 1874
Trade Unionists marching through Manchester in support of locked-out farm labourers

The Civil War in America: Fight at Rainsville, on the upper
Advance of the Wisconsin men, showing Federalists(Unionists), on the secessionist position. Part of the first battle of Bull Run

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

Political ladders in the Strand
Victorian men outside the Daily Graphic looking at the political ladders on the Strand. The 1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900

Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson, at Newcastle
Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson, Unionists opposed to Irish Home Rule, at Newcastle in 1913. 1913

Gas Stokers strike 1872
Political disturbance in the industrial south-eastern districts of Victorian London involving Trade Unionists, striking to assert their rights

Trade Unionists marching through Manchester in support of locked-out farm labourers. Date: 1874

Northern Strike 1846
Strikers in Liverpool in a picket line to prevent strike- breakers. Date: 1846

TRADES UNION INITIATION
Initiation into a TRADE UNION - due to official hostility (unionists were perceived as revolutionaries) the earliest unions conducted themselves like secret societies Date: circa 1835

Irish Ulster and Nationalist men united, WW1
Nationalists and Ulstermen as comrades in camp as members of King Edwards Horse in September 1914. From left to right, Corporal Jackson (Nationalist), Sergeant Kelly (Ulster)

E H Carson
EDWARD HENRY CARSON BARON CARSON OF DUNCAIRN British jurist and politician, leader of Irish Unionists (1910-21) Date: 1854 - 1935

Bystander cover - F. E. Smith
Frederick Edwin Smith (1872-1930), Lord Birkenhead, lawyer, statesman and great friend of Winston Churchill, pictured on the front cover of The Bystander at the time he was the leader of the Young

Suffragettes, Irish Nationalists and Unionists unite for WW1
WW1 - Another Triple Alliance - " We ve Stopped Hostilities - Now for the Germans!" - Suffragettes, Irish Nationalists and Ulster Unionists put aside their own social

The Melbourne Riots
A plain clothes policeman, in centre, using his revolver to keep strikers apart from a free labourer during the Melbourne Waterside Workers strike of 1928

The Civil War in America. The stampede from Bull Run
The end of the first Battle of Bull Run, showing Unionists retreating after losing the battle, which took place on July 21st 1869

The Civil war in America. Confederate scouts
Confederate scouts with percusio caps for the garrison of Vicksburg, running the Federal pickets. The garrison at Vicksburg held out for 6 weeks before it fell to the Unionists on July 4th 1863

The civil war in America: attack on the Confederate batterie
Attack on the Confederate batteries at Bull Run by the 27th and 14th New York regiments. The battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the civil war, seen here from the Confederate side

The Civil war in America: Jefferson Thompsons guerillas sho
Confederate snipers under Jefferson Thompson making life difficult for the Unionists to advance

The Civil War in America: Federals advancing on the abandone
The Unionists began to gain the upper hand against Confederate forces as the Peninsular Campaign took hold during 1862

American Civil war. Confederates trapping a boats crew of t
The Potomac River, Virginia, was one of the key battle grounds during the Civil War. This scene shows a Confederate soldier shooting towards the shore from where the Unionists were firing at

The Civil War in America. Attack on the blockading squadron
The Confederate iron-clad boats score a hit against the wooden boats of the Unionists

The Civil War in America. Army of the Potomac crossing the
Unsuccessful attempt of the Army of the Potomac to cross the Rappahannock on the 20th January 1863. The Unionists are seen here crossing the Rappahannock river with difficulty in blizzard conditions

The civil war in America: the long bridge over the Potomac a
The scene shows the hotly contested border between the forces of the Southern states and the Unionists guarded by cannon and men at night

T. G. W. U Dress Party 1934
A fancy dress party at the Transport and General Workers Union convalescent home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire; who says trade unionists lack humour?

Early Trade Union C1835
Initiation into a TRADE UNION - due to official hostility (unionists were perceived as revolutionaries) the earliest unions conducted themselves like secret societies

Labour Leaders Deported
Nine Labour Leaders deported from South Africa arrive at Gravesend on board the Umgeni. Their leader, James Bain receives a heros welcome from British Trade Unionists

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