Politics and protest
To mark a month where politics will dominate news coverage up until the General Election in June, here are a selection of images linked to political figures in living history and political protest over the last century.
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Suffragette committee meeting
for Daily Mirror
1906
NPG x139878
Emmeline Pankhurst addressing a crowd in Trafalgar Square
by Central Press
October 1908
NPG x131784
Charlotte Despard (née French); Anne Cobden-Sanderson with three unknown men
by Unknown photographer
19 August 1909
NPG x45197
Suffragette March in Hyde Park
by Mrs Albert Broom (Christina Livingston)
23 July 1910
NPG x17396
'Surveillance Photograph of Militant Suffragettes'
by Criminal Record Office
1914
NPG x132846
'Surveillance Photograph of Militant Suffragettes'
by Criminal Record Office
1914
NPG x132847
Suffragettes 'After the fight' (four unknown women and three unknown Policemen)
by Central Press
circa 1914
NPG x137213
Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest at Buckingham Palace
by Central Press
22 May 1914
NPG x137688
Aneurin Bevan
by Edward Malindine, for Daily Herald
15 November 1936
NPG x88298
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Harold Tomlin
11 July 1937
NPG x131104
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Harold Tomlin, for Daily Herald
11 July 1937
NPG x88274
Winston Churchill
published by R.A. (Postcards) Ltd.
circa 1949
NPG x198142
Anti-nuclear demonstrators including Michael Randle, Michael Scott; Bertrand Russell and Hugh MacDiarmid
by Ida Kar
18 February 1961
NPG x129580
Michael Heseltine
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
30 October 1962
NPG x125713
Sir Edward Heath
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
29 September 1965
NPG x125726
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead
by Peter Keen
mid 1960s
NPG x127717
Tariq Ali; Vanessa Redgrave
by Lewis Morley
27 October 1968
NPG x38958
Tariq Ali; Vanessa Redgrave
by John Walmsley
17 March 1968
NPG x6394
Harold Wilson
by Barry Fantoni
1960s-1970s
NPG 6788
Michael Foot
by John Walmsley
1970s
NPG x6392
Sir Edward Heath
by Barry Fantoni
circa 1972
NPG 6782
Harold Wilson
by Ruskin Spear
exhibited 1974
NPG 5047
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey ('Strings Attached')
by Gerald Scarfe
1976
NPG 6019
Tony Benn
by Bern Schwartz
30 June 1977
NPG P1141
Quintin McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
by Bern Schwartz
29 April 1977
NPG P1178
Margaret Thatcher
by Bern Schwartz
24 May 1977
NPG P1261
Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
by Bern Schwartz
19 May 1977
NPG P1267
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen
by Bern Schwartz
28 June 1978
NPG P1230
Jeremy Thorpe
by Daniel Farson
1980s
NPG x25196
Ian Paisley
by Neil Martinson
April 1981
NPG x139814
Conservative Party Conference, Brighton 1982
by Paul Brason
1982-1985
NPG 5843
James Callaghan
by Bryan Organ
1983
NPG 5550
Margaret Thatcher
by Gerald Scarfe
1983
NPG 6010
Dame Joan Mary Ruddock
by Pam Isherwood, for Format Photographers
31 March 1983
NPG x132185
Trade Unionists (Joe Gormley; Thomas Jackson; Sidney Weighell)
by Hans Schwarz
1984
NPG 5749
Arthur Scargill
by William Bowyer
1984
NPG 5990
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle
by Liam Woon
April 1985
NPG x25123
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare
by Liam Woon
1985
NPG x30422
Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby ('Fighting Inflation')
by Gerald Scarfe
1986
NPG 6009
The House of Commons, 24 July 1986
by Chris Orr
1986
NPG 6834
James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior
by Mark Gerson
April 1986
NPG x76344
Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Bt; Margaret Thatcher, Karen Buxton, Peter Leonard Brooke and five unknown sitters
by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
11 June 1987
NPG x31695
Margaret Eve Hodge
by Markéta Luskacová
1988
NPG x127354
Glenda Jackson
by Trevor Leighton
21 March 1989
NPG x32785
Diane Abbott
by Geoff Wilson
April 1992
NPG x76443
Dennis Skinner
by Geoff Wilson
27 November 1992
NPG x76447
Martin Bell
by Shaun Bloodworth
January 1994
NPG x125120
John Major; Norma Major
by John Wonnacott
1997
NPG 6402
Yvette Cooper
by Victoria Carew Hunt
1998
NPG x88082
Tessa Jowell
by Victoria Carew Hunt
1998
NPG x88087
Angela Eagle
by Victoria Carew Hunt
1998
NPG x88088
Gordon Brown
by Geoff Wilson
1998
NPG x88359
Charles Kennedy
by Geoff Wilson
17 February 2000
NPG x88358
Mo Mowlam
by John Keane
2001
NPG 6468
Neil Kinnock; Glenys Kinnock
by Andrew Tift
2001
NPG 6583
David Lammy
by Sal Idriss
2002
NPG x125665
Gerry Adams
by Conrad Atkinson
2008
NPG 6953
Nick Clegg
by Richard Saker
14 May 2009
NPG x134809
David Miliband
by Richard Saker
24 November 2010
NPG x134810
Tony Blair
by Alastair Adams
2013
NPG 6974
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd
by Brendan Kelly
2014
NPG 6982
Ken Livingstone
by Andrew Tift
2014
NPG 6983
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