Liberal Party Collection

British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith visiting Ireland, 1914 (1951). Asquith visiting Ireland during the trouble over Irish Home Rule

John Stuart Mill, British social reformer and philosopher, 1873. Artist: Spy
John Stuart Mill, British social reformer and philosopher, 1873. An advocate of utilitarianism, Mill (1806-1873) was probably the most influential liberal thinker of the 19th century

Title page of Samuel Plimsoll's 'Our Seaman'
3733622 Title page of Samuel Plimsoll's 'Our Seaman'.; (add.info.: Title page of Samuel Plimsoll's 'Our Seaman')

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1850
3478056 Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1850; (add.info.: Cartoon depicting Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton (1829-1906) an English temperance campaigner and radical

Samuel Plimsoll
3733624 Samuel Plimsoll.; (add.info.: Photographic portrait of Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) an English politician and social reformer. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Samuel Plimsoll
3733619 Samuel Plimsoll.; (add.info.: Photographic portrait of Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) an English politician and social reformer. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

John Webster
3585807 John Webster; (add.info.: Portrait of John Webster (1810-1891) a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

William Ewart Gladstone
5312036 William Ewart Gladstone; (add.info.: Engraving depicting William Ewart Gladstone enjoying a walk ashore to admire the scenery during his summer cruise to Norway)

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908
5614449 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908; (add.info.: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1836-1908. British statesman of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)

Henry Campbell - Bannerman (1836 - 1908)
2603921 Henry Campbell - Bannerman (1836 - 1908); (add.info.: Henry Campbell - Bannerman (1836 - 1908) Scottish - born British statesman. Leader of the Liberal Party, 1899

Thomas Watson
3586368 Thomas Watson; (add.info.: Portrait of Thomas Watson (1821-1887) an English silk spinner and Liberal Party politician. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet
3586439 Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet; (add.info.: Engraved portrait of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet (1822-1906) an English philanthropist and Liberal Party politician

William GGV Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904)
863469 William GGV Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904); (add.info.: William GGV Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) English lawyer and Liberal statesman, one of the great Parliamentarians of the late 19th century

Samuel Smith
3586487 Samuel Smith; (add.info.: Portrait of Samuel Smith (1836-1906) a British politician. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford
5308229 Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford.; (add.info.: Portrait of Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford (1823-1898) a British Liberal politician

The London County Council
5307240 The London County Council.; (add.info.: Political cartoon commenting on the London County Council constituted by the Local Government Act of 1888)

Sir Joseph Pease
3118255 Sir Joseph Pease; (add.info.: Photographic portrait of Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet (1828-1903) a British Liberal Party politician. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1850
3478047 Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1850; (add.info.: Cartoon depicting Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton (1829-1906) an English temperance campaigner and radical

Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, Sonnino, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, Sonnino, between c1915 and c1920. Shows French General Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French Prime Minister Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841-1929)

'Sir Wilfrid Laurier; ancien premier ministre, 1914. Creator: Unknown
'Sir Wilfrid Laurier; ancien premier ministre, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I". [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

'Face a L'agresseur, La séance historique du 3 aout 1914 a la Chambre des Communes, 1914. Creator: Samuel Begg
'Face a L'agresseur, La seance historique du 3 aout 1914 a la Chambre des Communes, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

M Lloyd George, ministre de la Guerre britannique, a Verdun, 1916. Creator: Unknown
M Lloyd George, ministre de la Guerre britannique, a Verdun, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Les deux Grands Collaborateurs; M Lloyd George et M Aristide Briand, 1916. Creator: Jean Clair-Guyot
Les deux Grands Collaborateurs; M Lloyd George et M Aristide Briand, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, homme d'Etat canadien, ancien premier ministre, 1914 (1916). Creator: Unknown
L'effort Canadien; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, le grand homme d'Etat canadien, ancien premier ministre, 1914. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

The Home Rule debate in the House of Commons, Mr Storey persuasive, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Home Rule debate in the House of Commons, Mr Storey persuasive, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

The Home Rule debate in the House of Commons - Mr Gladstone's peroration, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Home Rule debate in the House of Commons - Mr Gladstone's peroration, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

The Right Hon WE Forster, MP 1818-1886, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Right Hon WE Forster, MP 1818-1886, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P, 1854. From "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31 Dec 1853 to 30 Dec 1854"

A Reminiscence of the late Mr Forster's Irish Chief Secretaryship, 1886. Creator: Unknown
A Reminiscence of the late Mr Forster's Irish Chief Secretaryship - Visiting a Victim of "Captain Moonlight" at Tulla, County Clare, 1882, 1886. From "The Graphic

'The Late Sir Charles Forster, Bart, MP 1815 - 1891, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'The Late Sir Charles Forster, Bart, MP 1815 - 1891, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

The Graphic, Front Cover February 6th. 1886, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Graphic, Front Cover February 6th. 1886, 1886. The defeat of the Conservative government of Mr Jesse Collings amendment to the address. From "The Graphic

'Mr Gladstone Opening a New Hall at Port Sunlight, Cheshire, 1891. Creator: Unknown
'Mr Gladstone Opening a New Hall at Port Sunlight, Cheshire, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P, 1854. From "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31 Dec 1853 to 30 Dec 1854"

GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN NSW BUSHFIRES PRESSER
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian arrives for a press conference at the NSW Rural Fire Service Headquarters, Sydney Olympic Park, Saturday, September 7, 2019. NSW is battling a series of bushfires

Political cartoon depicting Lord Rosebery in Sheffield, 19th cent
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, was a Liberal politician, serving as Prime Minister in 1894-1895. From an original at Sheffield Libraries: s44975

A game of foot-ball as played by certain Westminster boys, 1858. In this cartoon, Derby (in the crown) is on the left with Disraeli representing the Tories

Roy Jenkins Born Nov. 11, 1920 a prolific career which includes Chancellor of the Exchequer (1967-70), Home secretary after Labours victory in1974 Formerly a Labourite

David Anthony Llewellyn Owen-Life Peer pictured in1981 at the Social Democrats Party Conference

PADDY ASHDOWN WITH WIFE JANE ASHDOWN AT POLLING STATION 10 / 04 / 1992
PADDY ASHDOWN WITH WIFE JANE ASHDOWN AT POLLING STATION 10/04/1992

George Peabody Gooch flanked by the Father Willis organ addresses a packed Reading town hall during his campaign to win the Reading by-election for the Liberal Party. Circa 1st November 1913

David Lloyd George ex British Prime Minister May 1929 seen here with Megan

Mr David Lloyd George MP leader of the Liberal on holiday in Wales Daily Mirror Article Published 17/09/1917. Mr. Lloyd George looks infinitely better than when he arrived at Criccieth a week ago

David Lloyd George, former British Prime Minister, Dame Margaret Lloyd George and Miss Megan Lloyd George at Paddington Station on their return from America. 26th January 1928

GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN PRESS CONFERENCE
NSW RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons (right) speaks to the media during a press conference at the NSW Rural Fire Service Headquarters, Sydney Olympic Park, Saturday, September 7, 2019

The House of Commons, February 13, 1893 (1906). Artist: Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples
The House of Commons, February 13, 1893 (1906). Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone Introducing The Second Home Rule Bill. From Cassells Illustrated History of England, Vol. VIII

Prince Charming and the Sleeping Beauty, 1912. Artist: Leonard Raven-Hill
Prince Charming and the Sleeping Beauty, 1912. Prince Charming, representing Sir Edward Grey (lst Viscount of Fallodon) British Foreign Secretary 1905-1916 prepares to wake the sleeping figure of

The Divided Skirt, 1886. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Divided Skirt, 1886. This cartoon shows the Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone. Now 76 years of age, and in his third term in office, Gladstone was undoubtedly the grandee of the Commons

The Wind and the Sun, 1886. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Wind and the Sun, 1886. Irish Discontent in the sunlight of the Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone. On the other side, the wind comes from the Conservative Leader in the House of Lords

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The Liberal Party has a rich history that spans over centuries, with notable figures and events shaping its legacy. From British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith's visit to Ireland in 1914, which marked a significant moment in the party's involvement in Irish politics, to John Stuart Mill, the renowned British social reformer and philosopher who championed liberal ideals in the 19th century. One cannot overlook the impact of political cartoons on public perception, such as the depiction of Lord Rosebery in Sheffield during the 19th century. These satirical illustrations served as commentary on key issues of their time and highlighted the Liberal Party's stance. The it also played a crucial role in advocating for women's rights. The trial of Emmeline Pankhurst and others saw Mr. Herbert Gladstone taking his place in the witness-box, demonstrating how liberalism embraced progressive ideas even amidst controversy. In more recent times, we see politicians like Gladys Berejiklian addressing pressing matters like bushfires through press conferences. This exemplifies how liberalism continues to adapt to contemporary challenges while upholding its core principles. Throughout history, liberal values have found expression within various contexts – be it within parliamentary debates at The House of Commons or through artistic mediums like Joseph Swain's "The Divided Skirt" or "The Wind and Sun. " These works reflect society's evolving attitudes towards gender roles and individual freedoms. As we delve into these glimpses from history – from visits by prominent leaders to iconic artworks – we gain insight into how liberalism has shaped societies across time. It serves as a reminder that this enduring ideology remains relevant today as it strives for progress and inclusivity while navigating complex political landscapes.