Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Bradlaugh NPG 2314

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sydney Prior Hall

Bradlaugh left school at eleven and worked as a clerk to a coal merchant. He enlisted in the army in 1850 and served in Ireland until 1853. On his return to London he became a pamphleteer and writer about 'secularist' ideas under the pseudonym 'Iconoclast'. In 1880 he was elected as an MP, and claimed the right to affirm, a non-religious alternative to taking the Oath of Allegiance, but this was denied. Because all MPs had to take the Oath before taking their seat or... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.