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Description of Trades Council and Trades Union meetings held in Aberdeen in December 1891.

Article by the leading Socialist J Bruce Glasier, about why the police are not Socialists.

A condemnation of capital punishment.

This advert for a meeting of the Aberdeen Revolutionary Socialist Federation appeared in the Worker's Herald. Members believed that anarchy was the key to harmony within society. One of their main aims was to abolish private land ownership.

The first issue of a magazine for Aberdeen Suffragettes.

This pamphlet is a Tory lampoon which mocks the Whigs and Radicals. It suggests, particularly through the songs, that the Whigs and Radicals are not united, and that the Whig MP, Alexander Bannerman, who is given the position of the Chairman at this…

An essay on the question of womens' suffrage. The author was inspired by looking at images of women painted by George Frederick Watts. He writes in favour of womens' suffrage.

This Address from the Aberdeenshire Committee of Liberal Tenant Farmers was written in 1868 as a result of the Second Reform Bill, passed in 1867. It was compiled to inform Electors about the origin and objects of the Committee.
The Committee…

James Adam, the author, was the Radical editor of the Aberdeen Herald. He had attended a conference in Birmingham in 1842 which adopted the six main Chartist points - even though conference refused to call itself Chartist. The main points were:…

The Conservative and Unionist Party were completely against the Liberal concept of Home Rule (devloution). This booklet commemorates a fete held at Fyvie Castle by the women's branch of the organization.