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COLL MISC 0519/1 - To the Electors of the City of Worcester

Full text lithograph in red ink on white paper. Campaign poster for the 1892 General Election for George Allsopp, Conservative and Unionist candidate for the City of Worcester, 1885-1906.
Artist: unknown
Printer: C. H. Birbeck and Co
Publisher: C. H. Birbeck and Co
Place of Publication: Worcester
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COLL MISC 0519/2 - Poster Making Instructions

Instructions on ordering single letter posters to be hung to form slogans such as Socialism Denies Liberty and Tariff Reform Means More Work, produced by the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations.
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COLL MISC 0519/3 - An Awkward Relationship: Little Johnny would Come

Cartoon satirizing the relationship between the Liberal Party and the Irish nationalists, featuring Campbell-Bannerman as a nervous bride in a wedding dress, and John Redmond as her illegitimate son. Produced for the Conservative and Unionist parties.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Publication: London
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COLL MISC 0519/6 - The Decoy

Bannerman and John Bull are shown walking arm in arm along a pleasant street. In the foreground, hidden from their view, an Irish nationalist is waiting with a gun and a club. He is unshaven, and wears a mask, a green jacket, and a hat with Home Rule written acorss the front.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/4 - Mrs. Bannerman's Cabinet Pudding

Campbell-Bannerman, dressed in a red frock and white apron, is shown mixing a bowl of Radical Programme in a kitchen. He offers a spoonful of the mixture to John Bull, who is raising his hand in refusal. The shelves behind Bannerman are laden with jars and packets labelled Slave Grown Rice, Foreign Paupers, Candied Cries, etc.
Artist: M. A.
Printer: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/5 - Ain't You the Radical Party? (Barmyville Asylum)

Full colour lithograph showing a cheerful idiot inviting three Radicals to join him in the Barmyville Asylum.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: McCorquodale and Co. Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/12 - Hopelessly lost. The Radical Babes in the Wood, and no way out of it

Spoof on the fairy story Babes in the Wood, with two Radicals (Bannerman and John Morley) dressed as children, walking through the thorny undergrowth of Little England between trees with grim faces called Home Rule, Alien Question and Education. Colour panel with small text banner top and bottom.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/10 - A Doubtful Guide

Central image with title at top and caption below. Campbell-Bannerman and a small party of thuggish men stand by a street corner. One man is dressed in a fur hat and ragged clothes (Alien), another is a stereotypical Irishman with a club (Home Rule). Bannerman offers the services of his respectable party to accompany John Bull and a well-dressed lady representing the colonies down the street.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/11 - He's good enough for me

John Bull reaches out to lay his hand in a benedictory fashion upon the shoulder of a reluctant but noble-looking Balfour.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/9 - Home Rule: 'Oh! Henry where did you get that cigar and why are you smoking it?'

British politicians forced to forced to endure the stink of Campbell-Bannerman's cigar of Irish Home Rule. Stylish image in three colours and black on white paper, produced for the Conservative/Unionist Party.
Artist: R. Troussel
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COLL MISC 0519/15 - It Really is a Very Pretty Garden

Full colour lithograph showing ? standing in a garden outside the Radical Conservatory with a watering can, surrounded by healthy potted plants representing Home Rule Imperial Disunion, and Godless Education, and stunted weeds representing Social Reform, Strong Navy and Reduced Taxation.
Artist: George Belcher
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/16 - Chinese Labour

Scene outside a mine in the Transvaal, with Campbell-Bannerman addressing a British workman in a bowler hat and good suit. Cartoon Chinese workers are seen in the background. Bannerman is sympathising with the British man about the Chinese workers taking away all his work, but the workman disagrees, saying that "for every nine coolies, there's a white man gettin' a 1 a day to boss 'em.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/17 - The Next Revival

Bannerman is shown in a brass bed, a Union flag hanging like a curtain to the left. He it sitting up, dressed in a nightshirt and night cap, staring at a realistically-portayed drowned black cat, which is walking across the bed towards him. It has red rolling eyes, and bricks attached to its paws reading 1886 and 1895.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/18 - Redmond's Last Words

Black ink on green paper, with a cartoon of John Redmond raising his fist, and a quote of Redmond's regarding home rule, produced for the Unionist Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Dobson, Molle and Co.
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/14 - Is this what you want to see?

Cartoon based on the Radical 'Infamous Poster', showing John Redmond herding a chain gang of politicians including Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, towards the Home Rule Compound. The caption at the bottom of the poster exhorts its readers to vote against, and work against, the Radical Party.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Witherby and Co
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/20 - There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

Satire based on the nursery rhyme of the old lady who lived in a shoe, with Bannerman as the old lady, sitting in the road and blocking his ears. Behind him, the shoe is overflowing with characters representing Liberal Promises such as Social Reforms, Home Rule Promises, etc.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: David Allen and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/24 - John Bull: Are these my Islands or yours?

John Bull is seen standing on an outline map of the British Isles (he stands squarely between London and the Midlands), facing a Tory peer-type who is dressed in hunting clothes, ermine-trimmed robes, and a monocle, and carrying a shotgun. The peer has one foot in Northern Ireland, and one in Scotland. John Bull is taking off his jacket, ready for a fight. The caption under the picture reads Vote Liberal and back up John Bull.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Avenue Press Ltd
Publisher: The Daily News
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/25 - Bad for the Quack Doctors

Copy of cartoon from the Westminster Gazette? showing Asquith as John Bull giving cheap sugar and an old age pension to a child and an elderly couple, while Chaplin and Austen Chamberlain, dressed as doctors, look on.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/26 - Baiting the 'Dear Food' Hook

Small poster showing a fisherman (unidentified politician) baiting his hook with worms called Full Employment and Higher Wages, with his fishing basket, Protection, beside him. In the river, a fish with a man's head (another politician?) looks balefully up at him. Produced by the Liberals.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Avenue Press
Publisher: Liberal Publication Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/27 - Beware of False Statements About the Licensing Bill

Black and red ink full text poster on white paper, regarding the popular image of the Licensing Bill.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Waterlow and Sons Ltd
Publisher: Liberal Publications Department
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/21 - This Way, Sir!

Campbell-Bannerman stands at the top of a flight of steps (called Radicalism, Inefficient Army and Navy, Home Rule, and Disunited Empire) that lead from the sunlight down into a dark and fetid pool called Ruin. He appears to be trying to persuade John Bull to walk down the steps in front of him.
Artist: Unknown
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
PLace of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/22 - Vote for the Conservatives Who Gave You the Alliance

Cartoon showing John Bull shaking hands with a Japanese soldier, against the Union Flag and Japanese flag, with a packet marked Alliance at their feet. Text banner top and bottom.
Artist: E Huskinson
Printer: Hill, Sifken and Co.
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/23 - What an outrage!

The Reverend Stiggins (?) is shown accosting a small schoolboy in a country lane, with the words What! your father wants you to learn the Church Catechism, in a school built by the Church of England? How dare he?
Artist: M.A
Printer: A White
Publisher: Conservative Central Office
Place of Production: London
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COLL MISC 0519/31 - Flattening Him Out, or, broadening the basis of taxation

A Tory wearing a monocle, spats, and a top hat with Tariff Reform written on it, is shown rolling a huge barrel called taxation over an angry-looking man of the Working Classes. Quotes from Tories about the desirability of broadening the basis of taxation appear in a cartouche to the left, and in the caption below the illustration.
Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould]
Printer: Waterlow and Sons
Publisher: Printer
Place of Production: London
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