Digitised images from the Political Cartoons Collection are now available on our Flickr site and our Leodis image archive. The Collection mainly covers 19th-century Parliamentary elections in Leeds between 1868 and 1880. 

Images representative of the Collection can be seen below covering the 1868, 1874, 1876 and 1880 elections. You can click some of the images to read more about an election.

You can also watch a short talk introducing the collection on Leeds Libraries YouTube channel…

Introduction

1868

1874

1876

1880