Skip to main content

Political cartoons

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Autochrome Punch Almanack Cover, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3189
Scope and Contents

Autochrome cover of Punch Almanack showing a man holding a British Union Jack flag standing on a horse as it jumps over a German 'monster' with a white bull dog barking at its side from the early 20th century during World War I.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cartoon: "Let the moral majority be heard…" (The Scotsman), 19 Jan 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/36
Scope and Contents

This cartoon shows a large megaphone with 75% written on it. Next to it is a drawing of Cardinal Thomas Winning, who is holding a smaller megaphone with 25% written on it. Words coming out of the smaller megaphone read: Let the moral majority be heard! This cartoon is likely to be in relation to the debate on the repeal of Section 28.

Dates: 19 Jan 2000

"Comfortig the Enemy" and "Hoch der Wilhsohn", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3193
Scope and Contents

Political cartoons from World War I commenting on how the Germans take pleasure in a distracted Britain with US President Wilson with his head in the clouds and British Prime Minister Lloyd George asking not to hurt the Germans.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

How We Gamble Without Knowing It, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3258
Scope and Contents

Cartoon by WK Haselden on 'How we gamble without knowing it' which is a comment on the House of Commons decision on Premium Bonds in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

I hereby swear allegiance to the Queens (The Herald), 14 May 2003

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/7/33
Scope and Contents

A cartoon showing the Green Party politician, Patrick Harvie, holding his right hand in the air with a speech bubble reading: I hereby swear allegiance to the Queens.

Dates: 14 May 2003

Matts of the year 2000 (Daily Telegraph), 26 Dec 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/354
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Dates: 26 Dec 2000

Punch Cartoons. [World War I Poem], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3196
Scope and Contents

Political cartoon illustrated by Bernard Partridge of a story poem allegory of the German Kaiser going to tame a cock, lion and bear and failing in World War I.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Remarkable Case of Protective Colouring, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3209
Scope and Contents

Cartoon illustration of a zookeeper surprised at the stars and stripes colouring of a zebra in its pen during World War I. The text beneath the image reads: 'Remarkable case of protective colouring. Owing, it is believed, to the fears of a German invasion, a zebra at the zoo assumes a neutral aspect.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Six meaningful ways to participate in the great Section 28 Referendum (The Herald), 5 May 2000

 Item
Identifier: GD61/11/2/4/260
Scope and Contents

This cartoon shows six ways to participate in the Section 28 Referendum, funded and organised by Brain Souter who campaigned to Keep the Clause. The options include taking the referendum to the toilet, setting fire to it, using it as a hat, making it in to a paper aeroplane to return to sender, using it too doodle on, or binning it.

Dates: 5 May 2000

The Boche Versus the Thistles, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3179
Scope and Contents

Political cartoon showing German World War I soldiers being attacked by smiling thistles and forced to retreat.

Dates: 1870s-1930s