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Brutal Collection

Background imageBrutal Collection: Saint Rita Praying

Saint Rita Praying
SAINT RITA OF CASCIA Italian peasant woman who survived a brutal husband to become a nun and saint - depicted at prayer Date: 1377 - 1447

Background imageBrutal Collection: American Indians scalping

American Indians scalping
American Indian holding up the scalp of a died man, that he has just been in combat with. Date: Circa 1870s

Background imageBrutal Collection: Saint Rita of Cascia

Saint Rita of Cascia
SAINT RITA OF CASCIA Italian peasant woman who survived a brutal husband to become a nun and saint Date: 1377 - 1447

Background imageBrutal Collection: A roast pig on a spit, West Country

A roast pig on a spit, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Background imageBrutal Collection: Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt. Henry Birdie Bowers during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition that claimed the lives of Scott

Background imageBrutal Collection: Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria - 25th Anniversary card

Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria - 25th Anniversary card
Turkish atrocities during the April Uprising in Bulgaria - 25th Anniversary card (published 1901). The inset pictures shows Todor Kableshkov (1851-1876)

Background imageBrutal Collection: Machine Gun on a Mule, near San Martial; Spanish Civil War

Machine Gun on a Mule, near San Martial; Spanish Civil War
Photograph showing a mule column of the Spanish Foreign Legion carrying supplies and a machine gun up a mountain path near San Martial, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Background imageBrutal Collection: JUDGE JEFFREYS ARRESTED

JUDGE JEFFREYS ARRESTED
George, baron Jeffreys, known as the hanging judge for his brutal punishing of political offenders, tries to flee the country but is arrested at Wapping and dies in the Tower Date: 1688

Background imageBrutal Collection: Rubber Rule in Africa - Methods of Barbarism. The atrocities carried out against

Rubber Rule in Africa - Methods of Barbarism. The atrocities carried out against the native population in Belgina Congo, Africa. An elderly Chief is shot for not meeting his rubber collection target

Background imageBrutal Collection: Mandinka polygamist in a bark suit beats one

Mandinka polygamist in a bark suit beats one
A Mandinka polygamist in a tree-bark suit beats one of his wives in the brutal ritual of Mumbo Jumbo. From Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa

Background imageBrutal Collection: Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon

Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon
The Kitchener Boche-Bayoneter - an airy invention by William Heath Robinson. An uncharacteristically brutal invention suggesting that a trench sized board covered with bayonets be lowered

Background imageBrutal Collection: US CIVIL WAR FOOTBALL

US CIVIL WAR FOOTBALL
The rules of the game are overlooked by soldiers during a brutal game in camp, as fights break out everywhere and the ball is ignored. Date: 1865

Background imageBrutal Collection: Sea wall at Severn Beach, a village on the Severn Estuary

Sea wall at Severn Beach, a village on the Severn Estuary
The sea wall at Severn Beach, a village on the Severn Estuary in South Gloucestershire, England. The Severn footpath ? on the sea wall

Background imageBrutal Collection: Matadi, Congo Free State - Leopold II and Colonial Officials

Matadi, Congo Free State - Leopold II and Colonial Officials
Matadi, the chief sea port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Bas-Congo province. Postcard celebrating the Independence of the Congo Free State

Background imageBrutal Collection: Suffragette Black Friday 1910

Suffragette Black Friday 1910. Outside the Houses of Parliament on 18th November, a deputation led by Mrs. Pankhurst and Members of the W.S.P.U tried to force their way into the House

Background imageBrutal Collection: Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon

Patent Applied For, Heath Robinson WW1 cartoon
The Kitchener Boche-Bayoneter - an airy invention by William Heath Robinson. An uncharacteristically brutal invention suggesting that a trench sized board covered with bayonets be lowered

Background imageBrutal Collection: Duke of Cumberland

Duke of Cumberland
A picture to rouse the wrath of any Highlander - the duke of Cumberland after his decisive victory at Culloden - which he followed up with brutal repressions

Background imageBrutal Collection: Cartoon, The Salesman, WW1

Cartoon, The Salesman, WW1
Cartoon, The Salesman, flirting with a customer as she tries on some gloves. Behind the salesman is a shadow of German soldiers with severed hands skewered on a sword. Date: 1915

Background imageBrutal Collection: Graphic cover featuring the Kaiser by Edmund Sullivan

Graphic cover featuring the Kaiser by Edmund Sullivan
Front cover of The Graphic newspaper featuring an illustration by Edmund Sullivan depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II as a brutal giant, marching across Europe

Background imageBrutal Collection: Sport / Rugby / Cartoon

Sport / Rugby / Cartoon
BARBARIANS AT PLAY John Bull: " Play football by all means, my boy - but don t let it be this brutal sort of thing!" Date: 1888

Background imageBrutal Collection: Football is a brutal game

Football is a brutal game

Background imageBrutal Collection: The retort brutal

The retort brutal

Background imageBrutal Collection: A Painful Subject - silhouette by Konewka

A Painful Subject - silhouette by Konewka
Silhouette of a teacher brutally thrashing his pupil by the German silhouettist Konewka Date: c.1830

Background imageBrutal Collection: Umberto Assassinated

Umberto Assassinated
In retaliation for the brutal suppression of a workers demo at Milano, anarchist Gaetano Bresci travels from America to Italy and shoots Umberto I at a sports meeting at Monza

Background imageBrutal Collection: Philippe Ricord / Moloch

Philippe Ricord / Moloch
PHILIPPE RICORD French medical: a satirical view

Background imageBrutal Collection: Chicago Riots & Police

Chicago Riots & Police
CHICAGO RIOTS Stirred up by fiendish anarchists, workers riot - and have to be put down with brutal force - police cower from the demonstrators stones

Background imageBrutal Collection: Chicago Riots

Chicago Riots
CHICAGO RIOTS Stirred up by fiendish anarchists, workers riot - and have to be put down with brutal force - dispersing the demonstrators


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