Blue and red ink on white paper, illustrating the increase in the price of tea and sugar under a Tory government (Tory government of 1905 compared to Liberal government of 1895), produced for the Liberal Party. Artist: Unknown Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Lithograph depicting Justice (armed with the Sword of Temperance) pulling the disguise from a British Lion to reveal an unidentified politician's drink-flushed face. The lion is standing on a scroll representing the Licensing Bill. Artist: Unknown Printer: Waterlow and Sons Publisher: Liberal Publication Department Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Judge John Bull finds the Tory Government guilty of numerous offences relating to Britain's conduct in the Boer War, described in a panel in the centre of the image. The offending politicians are standing in the dock. John Bull's comments appear in text below him; the word Guilty in large upper case at the top. A thick red line borders the poster. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Spoof of nursery rhyme 'Old Mother Hubbard, showing Chamberlain dressed as an old lady opening the 'Old Age Pensions Cupboard' for her dog called 'Aged Poor'. Satirical version of nursery rhyme below image, and explanatory text below the nursery rhyme, commenting on Chamberlain's suggestion that the workman should pay for his Old Age Pension out of a tax on his food. Thick red border around the image. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Printer Place of Production Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
Black and red ink on white paper. Lithograph produced for the Liberal Party showing a British housewife attempting to buy white bread in a shop in German, but being offered only black bread. Artist: Unknown Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Liberal Publication Department Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
John Bull is seen standing outside a Church School door, which bears a sign reading For Head and Assistant Master and Mistress-ships, no Nonconformist need apply. He comments that that is not his idea of religious equality. Text caption below image, large title in upper case type above. The poster is bordered by a thick red line. Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: Avenue Press Publisher: Printer Place of Production: London Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
[A J Balfour] posing as a conjuror or magician, stands behind a covered table, and places an egg named Khaki 1900 into John Bull's hat. [Joseph Chamberlain] peeks from behind the table cover holding a duck. In the next scene, Balfour withdraws two white rabbits from the hat (called Education Acts and Licensing Act 1904), while a duck called Tax on Food sits on its brim. Poster produced for the Liberal Party (based on a cartoon in the Westminster Gazette?). Artist: F.C.G [Francis Carruthers Gould] Printer: The Avenue Press Publisher: Printer Place of Production Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.
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 Note: For citation purposes check full catalogue reference indicated in Finding aids field.