Anarchist Gallery

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - and NO matches

The Caption is ??? and NO matches'. The Natzi wearing a saucepan on his head is confronted across a broken wooden fence by two boys, one with a make-shift bayonet and the other with a Union flag. During the war matches were very hard to get. On the back is a message from the Prime Minister We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty until our task is done'. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1942

© Holts Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library A Holts Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

The Anarchist Conspirators in London - Greenwich Bombing

The Anarchist Conspirators in London - (left): The Scene outside the Greenwich Observatory, the finding of Boudin after the explosion (right): About 9 o'clock, when least crowded, the Police (in plain clothes), arrived and took possession of the Club Autonomie, in Windmill Street. Date: 1894

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Thessaloniki, Greece - Bombings of Boatmen of Thessaloniki

The Boatmen of Thessaloniki (or the Assassins of Salonica), were a Bulgarian anarchistic group, active in the Ottoman Empire in the years between 1900 - 1903. From 28th April until the 1st May 1903, the group launched a campaign of terror bombing in Thessaloniki, the so-called Thessaloniki bombings of 1903'. Their aim was to attract the attention of the Great Powers to Ottoman oppression in Macedonia and Thrace. On this card we can see the results of their attack on The Imperial Ottoman Bank and the German Club on 29th April 1903. Date: 1903

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection