Materials in this collection include diaries, posters, engravings and photographs, mostly of Britain and Ireland in the 19th century. Some of these show civil unrest during the industrial revolution, following the movements of the agitators of the time. There is also material on the suffragettes, as well as a selection of images relating to foreign politics.
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Parliamentary return for Old Sarum, returning Thomas Pitt, 1734
Poster advertising a reward for information frame-breakers in Nottingham, 1812
Engraving showing the Peterloo massacre,
1819
Poster advertising a reward for information on the writer of the Swing letters, 1830
Poor Law poster, c.1832
Free Trade poster, 1905
Christabel Pankhurst (right) with Annie Kenny, 1906
Diaries of Roger Casement, dated 1903, 1910 and 1911
The first Labour Cabinet, 1924
President John F Kennedy visiting US Army Ordnance Missile Command, 1962
Prime Minister Harold Wilson at the start of Wilson's visit to Germany, 1964
The assassination of Marshal Chang Tso Lin on the South Manchuria Railway, 1928
Parliamentary return for Old Sarum, returning Thomas Pitt, 1734
Poster advertising a reward for information frame-breakers in Nottingham, 1812
Engraving showing the Peterloo massacre, 
Poster advertising a reward for information on the writer of the Swing letters, 1830
Poor Law poster, c.1832
Free Trade poster, 1905
Christabel Pankhurst (right) with Annie Kenny, 1906
Diaries of Roger Casement, dated 1903, 1910 and 1911
The first Labour Cabinet, 1924
President John F Kennedy visiting US Army Ordnance Missile Command, 1962
Prime Minister Harold Wilson at the start of Wilson's visit to Germany, 1964
The assassination of Marshal Chang Tso Lin on the South Manchuria Railway, 1928