Campaigners Collection

Emmeline Pankhurst carrying a petition from the Third Women's Parliament to the Prime Minister on February 13th
STC321032 Emmeline Pankhurst carrying a petition from the Third Women's Parliament to the Prime Minister on February 13th

A young married couple, participants in the 'To Fight Consumption' campaign, 1913. Creator: Unknown
A young married couple, participants in the 'To Fight Consumption' campaign, 1913. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Pacifists, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Pacifists, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Pacifists, 1917. Women with banner reading: Peace or War - Take a Referendum

Intl. Anti-Vivisection Congress - Back Row: Mrs. Clinton Pichney Farrell; Mrs. L. B. Henderson; Mrs.Florence Pell Warning. Front Row: Mrs. Caroline E. White; Miss Lind-Af-Hageby; Mrs. R. G

Miss Hazel MacKaye, playwright, right, with Miss Glenna Tinnen, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Hazel MacKaye, playwright, right, with Miss Glenna Tinnen, 1913. MacKaye helped present a series of pageants in support of women's suffrage

League To Enforce Peace - Group. William H. Taft in Center, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
League To Enforce Peace - Group. William H. Taft in Center, 1916

National Woman's Party Exec. group, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
National Woman's Party Exec. group, between 1910 and 1920. [American suffragists. The NWP was a women's political organisation formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage]

Woman's Committee Council of National Defense, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman's Committee Council of National Defense, between 1910 and 1920. Founder Dr. Anna Howard Shaw on the right. Shaw was a doctor, a leader of the women's suffrage movement

Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, between 1910 and 1920. First World War, USA. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. William G. McAdoo near right'

Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. American suffragist and women's rights advocate. Lucy Burns led the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS)

Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - Left, with Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - Left, with Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, 1913. American and British suffragists and women's rights advocates

Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Burns, Miss Lucy, of C.U.W.S. 1917. American suffragist and women's rights advocate. Lucy Burns led the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS)

Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Burns, Miss Lucy, of C.U.W.S. 1917. American suffragist and women's rights advocate. Lucy Burns led the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS)

Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - in Jail, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - in Jail, 1917
Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S. - in Jail, 1917. American suffragist and women's rights advocate. Lucy Burns led the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CUWS)

Women's Christian Temperance Union - Mrs. Lillian Stevens And Mrs. Anna Gordon, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Women's Christian Temperance Union - Mrs. Lillian Stevens And Mrs. Anna Gordon, 1911. [American temperance advocates and social reformers: Lillian M. N

Alice Paul, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Alice Paul, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Alice Paul, 1913. [Alice Stokes Paul (right) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist

Mrs. Martin Wiley Littleton, left, with Monticello Petitions, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mrs
Mrs. Martin Wiley Littleton, left, with Monticello Petitions, 1912. USA. Maud Wilson was married to attorney Martin Wiley Littleton

The Lambeth Election - the Hustings on Kennington Common, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Lambeth Election - the Hustings on Kennington Common, 1850....nomination of candidates for the representation in Parliament of the [London] borough of Lambeth...a considerable number of persons

NUPE and GMBATU school meals campaign, Croydon
NUPE and GMBATU representatives at a press conference to launch a Save our school meals campaign in the London Borough of Croydon, 29 June 1983. Date: 1983

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

Mrs Norah Dacre Fox, General Secretary of the Womens Social and Political Union speaking in aid of the War Effort in Trafalgar Square, London, Friday 9th July 1915

Frances "Poppy"Northcutt, mathematician aged 25 who works at the Mission
Frances " Poppy" Northcutt, mathematician aged 25 who works at the Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas, pictured in London

Common Market campaign in Middlesbrough Town Centre. 1971

Karl Marx at IWMA meeting, London
Reproduction of a painting by O.G. Verejski entitled Marx at the IWMA Meeting. Karl Marx was attending, but not speaking at, a meeting of the IWMA (International Working Men's Association)

Overseas students demonstrating over fees, London
Students from Hong Kong, studying at Queen Mary College, demonstrating outside their government's London office, December 1980

Students demonstrating over grant offer
Students demonstrating over a 4% grant offer, in the days when students were awarded grants rather than loans. More than 75

NUS students demonstrating in the snow, London, 29 November 1980. Date: 1980

Staff and students campaigning against fee increases
Academic staff and students of SOAS (the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London) campaigning against tuition fee increases. Date: 1977

NUS President Trevor Phillips and campaigners
NUS President Trevor Phillips (left, b. 1953, later a writer and broadcaster) and campaigning students from the London Boroughs of Harrow and Kingston, outside the Education Department in Waterloo

NUS President Charles Clarke and three colleagues
NUS President Charles Clarke (standing, b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister)) with NUS executive colleagues, from left to right, Alastair Stewart (b)

NUS President Charles Clarke with two students
NUS (National Union of Students) President Charles Clarke (b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister) with two students, Clare Weber and Paul Butler

Children demonstrating to save school playing fields
Children demonstrating to save their school playing fields, Havering, Essex. Date: circa 1970s

Little girl demonstrating for nursery places, Hackney
Little girl with a placard, demonstrating for more nursery places, Hackney, London, 22 May 1978. Date: 1978

Children and adults demonstrating against nursery cuts, May 1972. Date: 1972

Children campaigning for more nursery places, 7 July 1979. With them is the Labour MP, Neil Kinnock. As indicated on their badges, some of the children were also campaigning in 1968

Children campaigning against nursery cuts
Children campaigning against cuts to nursery education, some of them wearing teeshirts which read: I Like Nursery, 7 July 1979. Date: 1979

Child campaigning against nursery cuts, Lewes, Sussex
A child and several mothers campaigning against cuts in nursery education, Lewes, Sussex, 17 June 1980. Date: 1980

Children campaigning against cuts in free school milk
Children campaigning against planned cuts in free school milk and other services, October 1970. Date: 1970

Children campaigning against education cuts, Essex
Children campaigning against education cuts in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, March 1982. Their placards read: No Cuts, and I Need My Teacher. Date: 1982

Children campaigning against education cuts, Ealing
Children campaigning against education cuts outside Ealing Town Hall, West London, January 1980, where an anti-cuts meeting was being held about the possible closure of a local school

Children campaigning against education cuts, Sussex, May 1981. Their placards read: No Art, No Music = No Joy, The Unkindest Cuts, Keep Nursery School, and Save School Swimming. Date: 1981

Children campaigning against education cuts, Bristol
Children campaigning against education cuts, April 1977. The walkout and march from a Bristol comprehensive school was organised by the NUSS (National Union of School Students). Date: 1977

People campaigning against cuts, Ilford, Essex
People campaigning against cuts in education and social services, Ilford, Essex, 28 May 1976. Date: 1976

Trainee teachers campaigning against education cuts
Trainee teachers from the College of All Saints campaigning against education cuts, June 1976. Date: 1976

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Procession to welcome Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Mary Leigh on their early release from prison
STC321046 Procession to welcome Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Mary Leigh on their early release from prison on 19th December 1908 (sepia photo) by English Photographer

Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence purchasing Scottish heather for the release of Mary Philips
STC321059 Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence purchasing Scottish heather for the release of Mary Philips, 18th September, 1908 (sepia photo) by English Photographer

Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond being read the warrant for their arrest
STC321040 Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Flora Drummond being read the warrant for their arrest, 13th October 1908 (sepia photo) by English Photographer

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Campaigners have long been the driving force behind social change, fighting for their beliefs and demanding justice. From Karl Marx passionately addressing the IWMA meeting in London to overseas students protesting against exorbitant fees, these individuals refuse to stay silent. Even in freezing snow, NUS students persistently rally together, united against any form of injustice. Whether it's staff and students joining forces to combat fee increases or NUS Presidents like Trevor Phillips and Charles Clarke standing alongside campaigners, their determination is unwavering. Not only do they fight for education rights but also for children's futures - from saving school playing fields to advocating for more nursery places. In Hackney, a little girl fearlessly demonstrates her desire for better nursery facilities while children and adults alike join forces against cuts that threaten early childhood education. These they can the voice of change, reminding us all that our collective efforts can shape a brighter tomorrow.