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In this article, James Leatham considers why women should not have the vote. Socialists were not in agreement with women's suffrage.

In this pamphlet, Leatham argues that land should not be owned by individuals - wealthy capitalists. Instead, it should be under collective ownership and used for the good of all.

This pamphlet is one of James Leathams's early publications. In 1891 he was a committed Socialist, who spent any spare hours campaigning for social change. This monologue is written in the Aberdeenshire dialect in an attempt to win over potential…

In this open letter to his friend, Ramsay MacDonald, which he published in Gateway, Leatham points out that the government has not delivered the socialist promises made in 1918. As Leatham states at the end of the letter, ‘What we want is to stop the…

James Scott Skinner (1843 - 1927) and James Leatham (1865 - 1945) were friendly and collaborated on more than one occasion. Skinner composed this dance tune as an advertisement for LEatham's periodical, The Gateway. He published The Gateway from 1912…

Title page and introduction to the very long pamphlet discussing Reform and Joseph Hume.

John Davidson, the writer of this pamphlet, was a printer and Tory supporter. He was one of the (self-appointed)leaders of the reform movement in Aberdeen. This article is preceeded by a letter to Alexander Bannerman, who was to be elected MP for…

The writer, a Tory, who wished to keep the Corn Laws, entreats the Aberdeenshire voter to vote for Captain Gordon, the Tory candidate, in the first election after the reform bill has been passed.

This poster urges the electorate to vote for the Tory Provost James Hadden.

This poster takes the form of an open letter to the editor of the Aberdeen Observer, and questions Mr Bannerman's credentials and ability to serve as MP.