Ye Old Trafford Habitation Primrose League banner, around 1900, displayed at People's History Museum in Manchester, England, UK.

Ye Old Trafford Habitation Primrose League banner, around 1900, displayed at People's History Museum in Manchester, England, UK. The shield-shaped embroidered banner belonged to the Old Trafford branch of the Primrose League, a mass grassroots Conservative organisation founded in the late nineteenth century to promote Conservative principles and popular political participation. Its decorative design includes gold edging, floral motifs, heraldic shields and a prominent diagonal panel carrying the Old Trafford Habitation wording. The Primrose League took its name from the flower associated with former Conservative prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and became a significant political and social organisation with branches across Britain. This museum photograph provides editorial material on Conservative Party history, Victorian and Edwardian political campaigning, political clubs, embroidered banners, Manchester and Trafford history, museum collections, political heritage and the visual culture of organised political movements.