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The Queen and her ministers in council Date: 1846

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The meeting at Saratoga. by Henry Dacre & Henry Robinson, circa 1839. A political cartoon portraying a scene from Van Burens visit to Saratoga Springs, New York. The image shows Van Buren conversing with Henry Clay, and favours Clay in light of his efforts in New York. With the subtitle "Like boxers thus before the fight, their hands in friendship they unite".

French Revolution. French Constitution of 1791. It was the first written constitution in France, established after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Regime. It enacted popular sovereignty. King Louis XVI (1754-1793) swearing on the Book of the Constitution before the National Assembly, 14 September 1791. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Blanpain. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Frederick William II, Consultation on the General Land Law, c. 1790, History of the Hohenzollerns, Brandenbrug-Prussia

Edmund BURKE, 1729-97. Anglo-Irish philosopher and statesman, supporting Wilberforce's motion for the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY in the House of Commons, 9 May 1788.

''The Special Commission at the Royal Courts of Justice', 1888. From, 'The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888'.

Mr Pickwick addresses the club Date: First published: 1836-37

The Post Office telegraph headquarters; Telegraph Street; London: The instruments for carrying messages. 1871.

Divorce court scene from 1910, showing the plaintiff in the dock. Date: June 11th 1910

General scrutiny of the electoral process in the presence of journalists. France. 1872. Engraving by Ryckebusch.

Illustration depicting a public letter-writer in Mexico City. Dated 19th Century

Launch of the Inflexible at Portsmouth Dockyard: Princess Louise Starting the Ship by Electricity, 1876. 'Mr. W. B. Robinson, the chief constructor of the Inflexible...explained the mechanism to the Princess...there was a beautifully-finished brass-hinged stanchion, the head of which was made to branch out into two arms so as to support the bottle of wine used in the ceremony of christening...all that was required was to press the button into the casting, whereupon the wire holding the stanchion in its place was instantly severed through being fused by electricity. The stanchion, relieved

Political Game of Brag - Shew of Hands 1848. Metaphor of a card game is used for the presidential stakes in this rendition of the 1848 contest. Edward Williams Clay

In the Barn, the Insurgent Sergents Forcing Isabel II to Restore the 1812 Constitution. Madrid, National Library. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

A working man's home - a garret at 10 Hollybush Place, Bethnal Green, London Date: 1863

'The great meeting at Her Majesty's Theatre, under the auspices of the Irish Patriotic Union, to protest against Mr. Gladstone's Irish Policy', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

THE GENERAL ELECTION

French Revolution. French Constitution of 1791. It was the first written constitution in France, established after the collapse of the absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. It enacted popular sovereignty. King Louis XVI (1754-1793) swearing on the Book of the Constitution before the National Assembly, 14 September 1791. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Blanpain. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876. Author: Hippolyte de la Charlerie (1827-1867). Belgian artist.

Drei Männer beim Kartenspiel, Skat, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum...

Political game of brag. Shew of hands, Published by Andrew Donnelly, 1848. The artist resorts to the familiar metaphor of a card game for the presidential stakes in his rendition of the 1848 contest. The major contenders play a game of brag (an early form of poker). Around the table sit six players (left to right): South Carolina senator John Calhoun, Democratic presidential nominee Lewis Cass, Henry Clay, Whig candidate Zachary Taylor, Secretary of State James Buchanan, and President James K. Polk. In the centre of the table is the Presidential Ante. Displaying three aces, former Mexican War general Taylor exclaims, Three bullets, Clay! Still at my old trade! whenever bullets are to be met I am sure to have a hand with them! Clay, who holds three low cards behind his back, replies, I tried my old bluffing game with a contented hand & nothing to brag with but a hand full of hearts! Im not sorry however that old Zach has won! Seated to the left Cass laments, Three braggers, Ca

William E. Gladstone (1809-1898) was a British liberal politician. In early 1886, he proposed his First Irish Home Rule Bill, as shown here in this late 1800s illustration. This bill was the first major try to pass a self-governing rule for Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Bill failed. In 1893, Gladstone introduced his Second Home Rule Bill, Another name for these bills were: Government of Ireland Bill of 1886, Government of Ireland Bill of 1893. The second passed in the House of Commons, but was vetoed in the House of Lords.

'The Crystal Palace and its Refreshments; Gentlemen Visitors over-refreshed', 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854".

The General Post Office, London : stamping and sorting letters Date: 1875

Leon Gambetta assassinated in his home by a Sister of the Free-Masons. Date: 1890s

A convicted thief stands on trial in a packed law court while his sister weeps. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.

Une audience de police correcctionnelle. Illustration by Delarye. Printed by Victor Ratier circa 1830. Paris. Litography.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE Holmes finds a clue. Date: First published: 1904

Signing of the peace treaties, preliminary negotiations and preliminary agreement, in Leoben on April 17, 1797, preliminary peace, preliminary peace o...

ARGENTINA. San Miguel de Tucumn. Congress of Tucuman, representative assembly of the United Provinces of the River Plate, formed in 1816. The Congress declared the independence of Argentina on July 9, 1816. Painting.

'Franking letters, the General Post Office, St Martin's le Grand, London. Engraving, London, 1884,'

Chappell and Co's Piano Works, Belmont Street, Chalk Farm Road, London. From The Illustrated Midland News, Birmingham, 2 April 1870.

Saint-Lazare Prison: Girls Registry

THE GOLDEN WEDDING OF MR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE: MR. GLADSTONE RECEIVING THE COMMEMORATIVE ALBUM AT THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, 1889.

The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet - President Abraham Lincoln

''Lord Hartington addressing a Liberal Unionist meeting at Inverness', 1888. From, 'The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888'.

A rubber at Miss Havisham's Date: First published: 1860-61

Revisiory commission for the Constitution of the National Assembly, Paris, France, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 435, Volume XVII, June 26 -July 3, 1851.

All fours-important state of the game-the knave about to be lost by H.R. Robinson, 1836. Lithograph print on wove paper. Political cartoon satirising the presidential campaign of 1836. Shown here as a card game between Democrat Martin Van Buren and Whig William Henry Harrison. The cartoon supports the Whigs.

D. B., A Quilting Party in Western Virginia, 1854, wood engraving on paper.

Illustration depicting the direct telegraph line between Newcastle and London for the Newcastle Chronicle. Right: reporter handing in a copy for transmission. Left: Operator sending a dispatch. Dated 19th century

politics conferences Congress of Erfurt 27.9. - 14.10.1808

THE DUAL GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Vitam Mortuis Reddo (I Restore Life to the Dead) 1721 Bernard Picart French. Vitam Mortuis Reddo (I Restore Life to the Dead) 390166

Group of deputies of the Seine. (Election of August 21, 1881) (IT)

Eusapia at age 54 produces a materialisation at a Paris seance Date: 1854 - 1918

The Indian Rope Trick: I - The author shows the Limbs of the Indian. October 12, 1936.

In June 1842 all light sovereigns were recalled to the Bank of England and weighed. If they were below the standard weight they were defaced and cut using this machine. Date: 1845

Belltafel in Wrocław, Breslau, now Poland, historic wood engraving, ca. 1880

The First Voting Machine American History

Very probable / TJ. | Library of Congress

FRIEDRICH ENGELS German political theorist working on Das Kapital with Marx Date: 1820 - 1895

Receiving a message on a Morse printing telegraph.

Frederick and the Page - The King reads and pardons the boyish letter of complaint

The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was principally a Quaker society founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Clarkson. The slave trade had been abolished throughout the British Empire in 1807. In August 1833 the British government passed the Slavery Abolition Act, advocated by William Wilberforce, which abolished slavery in the British Empire from August 1834, when some 800,000 people in the British empire became free. This monumental painting records the 1840 convention of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was established to promote worldwide abolition. A frail and elderly Thomas Clarkson addresses a meeting of over 500 delegates.

View of the male dormitory at Broadmoor, opened as an asylum in 1863 to female patients and to male patients the following year. The building was designed by military engineer, Major General Joshua Jebb. Prisoners at this time included Edward Oxford, who shot at Queen Victoria, Captain Johnson, master of the ship, Tory, who slaughtered some of his crew and young artist Dadds, who cut off his father's head. A report by Dr John Meyer, in 1867, stated that the accommodation was not satisfac

Marx & Engels at the 2nd Communist League Congress in London, 1847 1961 Hans Mocznay German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany

Johan de Witten sworn as a guystar of Dordrecht, 1650; The father of the Lord's white, guessed 't Dankken der Melbie, Werddt Neeves Andre Heeren brought on' t Loevesteyn.Johan de Witt is sworn as a guystyer of Dordrecht and acquires the release and reparation for his father Jacob de Witt, arrested on order from Prince Willem II on July 30, 1650. Fragment of the Great Print on the De Witt brothers: Witten Wonder mirror (1675).

Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 -1890), worked from 1867 to 1872 to build the first commercially successful typewriter based on a patent held by himself and James Densmore. In 1873 they made 50 machines sold for $250 each.

Countess Sofia Panina (18711956)Vice Minister of State Welfare and Vice Minister of Education in the Provisional Government following the Russian February Revolution; 1917 on trial in 1918

Scanc peasants, Swedish section, M.B. Main building. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1876. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Pennsylvania, Exhibitions, Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Joseph Stalin Speaks To The Revolutionaries, 1917.

Emile Zola (1840-1902) French novelist, on trial for defamation of French military authorities for writing a letter to the press referring to the Esterhazy court martial in his effort to obtain justice for Alfred Dreyfus c1859-1935). Sentenced to a year in prison but escaped to England. From 'The Graphic', London, 12 February 1898.

Signing the marriage register London, 1891

The great Republican reform party. , Presidential elections, Politicians, Catholicism, Women's suffrage, Prohibition, Abolition movement, Socialism, Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Post Office telegraph headquarters; Telegraph Street; London: the batteries for operating the 395 instruments. 1871.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS: J. DOYLE: 'THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL,' MAY 26, 1831 KING (WILLIAM IV.) loq.í'Reform Bill Can that mean me'

LLUIS SALVADOR D`AUSTRIA/INDUMENTARIA FEMENINA, ISLAS BALEARES, FELANITX, PALMA DE MALLORCA. GRABADO, SIGLO XIX. BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA DE PALMA.

Stephen finding his mother - Northern Democratic presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was widely criticized for his campaign tours of the country--an unusual practice for a presidential nominee. In an attempt to evade such opprobrium Douglas disguised a July 1860 tour of New England and upstate New York as a personal visit to his elderly mother and family. When it took him over a month to go from Washington to New York, Republicans taunted him as "a little boy" (a reference to his shortness of stature) "lost in search of his mother." One of the many handbills and cartoons published on th

Bathold George Niebuhr, 1776-1831, German historian, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

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