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The 2nd special General Strike edition. The paper was not in favour of the strike.

Special General Strike issue of the Bon-Accord Pictorial

The only illustration of the Great Reform Meeting held at Aberdeen Links on the Broadhill, a common meeting ground.

A last-minute attempt by the Tory faction in Aberdeen to worry the Liberals before the 1841 general election, about their candidate Alexander Bannerman.

The central, seated figure represents Provost William Leslie, to whom the image is dedicated. Aberdeen town council at this time were Liberal. The Party of Progress were clearly not as progressive as they wished the town to believe. The image shows…

Political squib condemning Reform.

The poster states that Victoria, who had recently become queen, was a supporter of Reform.

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…

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…

The first issue of a magazine for Aberdeen Suffragettes.