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Lord Brougham sits on the woolsack in the Lords wearing a barrister's wig as four politicians stand around inspecting him. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1830.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: Dec 31 1830Reference: 651320i- Pictures
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British politicians playing cricket: Parnell, batting with a bat marked "treason" is bowled by The times newspaper. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 14 May 1887.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 14 May 1887Reference: 565097i- Books
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Over shoes, over boots: or, the politicians at their wits-end. With an enquiry, whether any former age has equall'd the present in blunders.
Date: [1742]- Pictures
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British politicians as huntsmen arriving at a river representing the Criminal Law and Procedure (Ireland) Act 1887. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 3 December 1887.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 3 December 1887Reference: 564979i- Pictures
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The James M. Patton Leper Village, Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Thai royalty and politicians stand at the entrance with asylum doctors; patients are seated. Photograph, 1921.
Date: 1921Reference: 567828iPart of: Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: Annual Report.- Pictures
A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
Sneyd, John.Date: 14 March 1803Reference: 12191i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002301: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir George Campbell (1824-1892), Scottish Liberal Party politician and and Indian administrator
Date: 02 September 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/19/88Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Five actors represented by English politicians are performing a pantomime while a (Quaker?) spectator is asleep in his chair. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1 January 1887.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 1 January 1887Reference: 565012i- Pictures
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A woman being stabbed while the blood pouring from her wounds is drunk by a group of men; representing Britannia's resources being drained by politicians. Engraving, 1768.
Date: [10 May 1768]Reference: 12166i- Pictures
John Russell mixing a large concoction surrounded by a semi-circle of politicians on latrines; representing the Reform Bill which disenfranchised sixty 'rotten' boroughs. Coloured etching by C.J. Grant, 1831.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: March 1831Reference: 12231i- Pictures
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A naked woman representing Truth is defended by Lord Holland against attack by politicians abusing a government privilege in libel cases. Coloured etching by Samuel De Wilde, 1811.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: 1 April 1811Reference: 38436i- Books
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A trip through the town. Containing observations on the humours and manners of the age. Reflections on London in general. The Art of walking in St. James's Park. Beaus and Blockheads; together with Coffee-House Politicians, exposed. A Dissertation on the Craft of the Town-Beggars, and the monstrous Pride and Insolencies of Women-Servants. The Humours of Newgate and Tyburn on the Day of Execution. The Horse-Guards, prov'd to be better Subjects, though worse Soldiers than the Foot-Guards. A remarkable Character of Sir Timothy Testy, Knight. The real Causes of the Debaucheries practis'd upon the Fair Sex; shewing the true Reasons why such infinite Numbers of fine young Creatures are daily forc'd into the Service of the Publick. People of Fashion required to keep their young Daughters out of their Kitchens. A merry Water-Ramble from Westminster to Wapping; the Miseries of that Part of the Town described; with some Account of a Tumult near King Edward's Stairs, occasioned by a Sea Lieutenant's Lady unfortunately discharging a Chamber-Pot from a Two-Pair of Stairs Window on a decay'd Baronet's Wife. With many other diverting particulars.
Date: 1735- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002309: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (1808-1903), Australian-English politician and explorer
Date: 02 September 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/19/95Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A funeral procession of politicians bearing the coffin of the 1765 Stamp Act to its tomb in the docks where American trade was carried out. Etching after B. Wilson, 1766.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: [1766]Reference: 2475206i- Pictures
A funeral procession of politicians bearing the coffin of the 1765 Stamp Act to its tomb in the docks where American trade was carried out. Engraving after B. Wilson, 1766.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: [18 March 1766?]Reference: 582581i- Pictures
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A wig-seller dressing a wig on a stand in his shop; the wig-stands bear the heads of Tory politicians. Wood engraving by W.C.W. after R. Seymour.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1831Reference: 31578i- Pictures
W.E. Gladstone and other Liberal politicians as prisoners being released from prison; relatives and friends waiting for them at the gate. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 18 December 1886.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: 18 December 1886Reference: 564974i- Archives and manuscripts
Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), politician
Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), politicianDate: 1826-1867 and n.dReference: MS.7400/56-62Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Pictures
A bull tied down by Scottish politicians and burdened with taxation is baited by a Spaniard and a Frenchman and treated with contempt by a Dutchman; representing Great Britain in 1779. Engraving, 1779.
Date: Dec.r 6. 1779Reference: 2921460i- Pictures
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Victorian politicians sympathetic to Irish Home Rule in the guise of Guy Fawkes and his conspirators breaking into the undercroft of the House of Lords. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: Oct.r 29th 1887 [29 October 1887]Reference: 564955i- Books
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A compliment of congratulation to a nobleman, on his return from Boeotia. Addressed to him, by a cast-politician.
Cast-Politician.Date: M,DCC,XLV. [1745]- Pictures
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Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 2 May 1803Reference: 12193i- Books
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The french politick detected, with the characters of the French politicians display'd; in IV. parts. By way of allegory. Where the Maxims of both Governments of that Nation, Ecclesiastical and Civil, are prov'd Immutable from its Legislators, Druides or Priests of the Guals, to this Day; notwithstanding the usurp'd Name of Christian. By F. Gandouet. M.P.
Gandouet, Fr.Date: 1709- Books
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A pair of spectacles for short sighted politicians; or, a candid answer to a late extraordinary pamphlet, entituled, An honest man's reasons for declining to take any part in the new administration.
Cooper, Grey, Sir, approximately 1726-1801.Date: 1765- Books
The ethical aspects of biomedical research and the biopharmaceutical industry : report of a roundtable debate among researchers, industrialists, regulators, politicians and patients' organisations on 10 January, 1994. / Rapporteurs: Cees Smit [and others].
Date: [1994], ©1994