Demonstration Collection

Suffragette Rally Womens Sunday Programme 1908. Official programme & souvenir of the Votes for Women Demonstration, 21st June 1908

Fencing positions
Page demonstrating the various positions adopted during fencing. Date: 1930

Brian Jacks
World Champion for the arm dips, Brian Jacks gives a demonstration

Suffragette Campaign Muriel Matters Pankhurst. The campaign of the suffragettes in October 1908, including demonstration in Trafalgar Square, the trial of Mrs

Kinneil Mineworkers protest
Workers protest against the proposed closure of Kinneil Pit, Bo'ness, Scotland. Their efforts were in vain as the colliery was closed in 1983 Date: December 1982

Czech Republic - 10th All Sokol Rally in Prague 1938
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Metropolitan Police officers, Battle of Cable Street
Metropolitan Police officers attempt to dismantle a barricade set up by anti-fascist demonstrators in the East End of London

Suffragette Demonstration Rally Hyde Park
The Great Suffragette Demonstration held on 23rd July 1910. banners held aloft include Fortune Favours The Brave, Arise Go Forth & Conquer and the Emmeline Pankhurst banner. Date: 23rd July 1910

Suffragette Demonstration Hyde Park 1908. Advertisement for an excursion train to London from Ipswich on Sunday June 21st 1908

Nurses Watch Surgery
Nurses watch a surgical demonstration from a balcony

Suffragette Hyde Park Demonstration 1908. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst stands beside Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) Pioneer Suffragist then aged 75 yrs, in a Votes for Women sash

H H Sheikh of Kuwait Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
The 10th Monarch of Kuwait (between 1921-1950)

Met Police officers during Grunwick dispute
Two Metropolitan Police officers relax on deckchairs in The Mall, Central London, waiting for a political demonstration over the Grunwick dispute to begin

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague 1929
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Yugoslavia - Sokol Rally in Belgrade
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Czech Republic - 6th All Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Cable Street demonstration 1936
Anti-fascist crowds, some giving the Communist clenched fist salute, gather round a tram in the East End of London

Reino Unido (20th c. ). Suffragette demonstration
Reino Unido (20th c.). Suffragette demonstration in London. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Clog Dance / Toaduff
CLOG DANCING / ENGLISH STEP DANCE An audience watch a demonstration by Jackie Toaduff, at the York Summer Festival

Communist Demo 1931
Communist demonstration in Hyde Park : the intense excitement of the crowd reflects the inflammatory oratory of the speakers

Votes for Women Hyde Pk
Photograph showing the scale of the Votes for Women demonstration in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908; many women and men attended; some hold banners

Crofters of Lewis Riot
The crofters of Lewis, in the Hebrides, riot against enclosures by landowners : the Riot Act is read at Aignish Farm, near Stornoway

WOMENs RIGHTS DEMO / 1906
A Womens Social & Political Union demonstration in Hyde Park

Cartoons, The Great Chartist Demonstration -- No. IX, The Beginning and the End. 1848

The Great Docks Strike of 1912 - Scene at Grays, Essex
The Great Docks (Docker s) Strike of 1912 - Scene at a Demonstration at Grays, Essex

Woman police officer in self-defence exercise
Woman police officer (Moya Wood-Heath) taking part in a self-defence demonstration exercise at an outdoor event, watched by spectators. Date: circa early 1970s

Fireworks at Ryogoku by Utagawa Hiroshige (Edo series)
Fireworks at Ryogoku (Ryogoku Hanabi), No. 98 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) - (see: 10505423 for alternate version). Date: circa 1858

Max Factor make up booklet with Hollywood stars
Rochelle Hudson and Bette Davis demonstrate how to apply powder and rouge respectively in a Max Factor promotional booklet. Date: 1937

The benefits of taking the water at Bad Wildungen, Germany
Comic illustration of the wonderful benefits to a ladys urinary tract ()

GLC-LFB Centenary Royal Review at Lambeth HQ
To celebrate the 100 years of the London Fire Brigade, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip reviewed the London Fire Brigade at Lambeth headquarters

Czech Republic - 9th All Sokol Rally in Prague 1932
9th All Sokol Rally in Prague 1932

Rembrandts Dissection
An anatomical demonstration

Demonstration in London -- Tariq Ali (b. 1943, centre), writer, journalist and filmmaker, linking arms with others and walking along a road

Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson, WW1
Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson (1883-1932), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cromartie, society figure, danced and promoter of the healthy benefits of exercise

Votes for women air balloon, 1909
Votes for women more in the air than ever: the suffragettes dirgible for the opening of Parliament

West Midlands Pepper Street Staffordshire May
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Suffrage Pilgrimage NUWSS 1914
The official programme of the Great Demonstration on Saturday 26th July 1913, when the Pilgrims entered Hyde Park in four processions. Date: 1913 July

W. S. P. U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners
W.S.P.U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners. A menu for the Welcome Dinner in Honour of Released Prisoners, 16th February 1912. The prisoners including Mrs

Rosamund Massy Suffragette. Mrs. Massy (1870-1947) portrait. Member of the W.S.P.U, imprisoned, went on hunger strike. Took part in the Black Friday demonstration of November 1910. Date: circa 1909

Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates pumping
Moored at its Blackfriars river station on the Victoria Embankment, the newly commissioned Massey Shaw fireboat demonstrates its massive pumping capacity by discharging a vast amount of water

Balloon and parachute lecture, Charles Green

Peterloo Massacre
The Peterloo Massacre (forcible dispersal of a Reform Meeting in St Peters Fields, Manchester) 16 August 1819 Date: 16th August 1819

Demonstration to keep Horley and Charlwood in Surrey
A group of people on a demonstration in the middle of a road, holding banners and placards, determined to keep Horley and Charlwood in Surrey

Policeman and policewoman with gas masks
A policeman and a policewoman wearing civilian gas masks outside Harrow Road Police Station (X Division) before the outbreak of World War Two. The respirator is contained in the canvas bag

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague 1920s
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Czech Republic - 8th All Sokol Rally in Prague
8th All Sokol Rally in Prague

Shotton Works Demo C1972
Demonstration by Shotton steel workers against the closure of their factory

Lenin Demonstration 1919
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman at the May Day demonstration in 1919

Mounted Demonstration
Mrs Evelina Haversfield & Miss Maud Joachim in a mounted demonstration. They are wearing Votes for Women sashes. Date: circa 1910

Early fax technology in Paris, France
Edouard Belin demonstrates his instrument to transmit pictures at a distance (an early example of fax technology) at the Salle du Theatre Femina, Paris, France. (2 of 2)

Yorkshire N. U. M. leaders
Leaders of the Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers, including Arthur Scargill, support a demonstration calling for early retirement for all their members

From silkworm to silk stocking - British Empire Exhibition
The silk worm farm in the Hong Kong section at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924

Womens League of Health & Beauty
Page from The Sketch reporting on the Womens League of Health and Beauty, who were in the midst of preparing for a big display at the Royal Albert Hall in 1934

14th Hussars - Colonel Brown Victoria Cross Re-enactment
Victoria Cross Re-enactment of the bravery of Colonel Edward Douglas Brown (Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson VC) (18611940) of the 14th Hussars - who

Police guarding Liverpool Station during transport strike
Policemen on horseback guarding Liverpool Station during the general transport strike of 1911

Army Recruitment Yorks
A recruitment demonstration by the army in Doncaster, Yorkshire using a trampoline

Irkutsk Demonstration
The February Revolution spreads from Petrograd across the country - this street demonstration is at Irkutsk in Siberia

Demonstration against the toll on Chelsea Bridge, London
A demonstration against the charging of a toll on the new Chelsea Bridge, London

Tolpuddle Demonstration
A demonstration in support of the Tolpuddle Martyrs held at Copenhagen Fields, London on April 21, 1834

Chartist Procession
The Chartist demonstration : the procession at Blackfriars Bridge, London

Medical / Anatomy C16
Anatomy demonstration. Date: 16th Century

Double page spread from The Sphere reporting on the royal tour of Ghana in 1961, specifically the trip made by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to north Ghana

Leon Theremin (1896 - 1993) giving a demonstration of his electronic musical instrument to a group of invited Scientists (including Sir Henry Wood (left) and Sir Oliver Lodge) at the Savoy Hotel

Leon Theremin (1896 - 1993) giving a demonstration of his electronic musical instrument to a group of invited Scientists (including Sir Henry Wood (left) and Sir Oliver Lodge) at the Savoy Hotel

Leon Theremin (1896 - 1993) a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. Date: 1927

Leon Theremin (1896 - 1993) a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. Date: 1927

Leon Theremin (1896 - 1993) giving a demonstration of his electronic musical instrument in concert at the Albert Hall (pictured) where he played Schubert's Ave Maria and other airs

Leon Theremin (1896 - 1993) giving a demonstration of his electronic musical instrument to a group of invited Scientists (including Sir Oliver Lodge)

Queen Mary attending demonstrations organised by the Gloucestershire War Agricultural Executive at Badminton Hall, in the company of the Duke of Beaufort, whose niece

British inventor Harry Grindell Matthews's invention of the invisible ray in operation (above) putting a motor-engine out of action (below) exploding gunpower. Date: 1924

France. Paris Commune. Riots in the Place de la
France. Paris Commune. Popular revolutionary movement that took power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War. Riots in the Place de la Bastille. Engraving

Gaius Mucius Scaevola standing before the Etruscan Porsena
Gaius Mucius Scaevola standing before the Etruscan leader Porsena. Held by two soldiers in armour, Gaius Mucius holds his right hand in a flame to prove his bravery. Mutio scevola in agata

First Carlist War (1833-1840). Monastic uprising
Spain. First Carlist War (1833-1840). Monastic uprising

Spanish-American War (1898). Cuba. Havana. A patriotic demonstration in front of the Captaincy General, against the American political institutions. Photoengraving

Paris -Patriotic demonstration in honour of General Saussier
Paris, France. Patriotic demonstration in honour of General Saussier (Dreyfus affair). Parade of the Patriotic Societies in Place Venda´me. Photoengraving. La llustracion Espanola y Americana, 1898

Humorous colour illustration by H.M. Bateman showing an embarrassed Scoutmaster who, during a fire-lighting demonstration, has failed to light the last match in his box. Date: 1934

Judo as self-defence as demonstrated by Phyllis Boutell
Page showing Miss Phyllis Boutell and Mr Charles Cawkell demonstrating how judo, or ju-jitsu, can be an effective form of self-defence if attacked

Wrestling club for women in Vauxhall
Members of a wrestling club for women, opened in Vauxhall, London in 1928

Womens wrestling school in Vauxhall, 1928
Gladiators of the feminine age. A wrestling school for women recently opened in Vauxhall, London

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London

Harry Hawker - Homecoming of the Australian Aircraft pioneer
Wild scenes greet the return, in 1914, of Harry Hawker (1889-1921) - Australian aviation pioneer - on his return to Australia (to demonstrate the advanced Sopwith Tabloid)

Demonstration supporting Nelson Mandela
A crowd of demonstrators calling for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. A large banner reads Mandela the world is with you'. Date: 1980s

Home Rule Bill of 1912
John Redmond (1856 - 1918), leader of the Irish party, claiming home bill for Ireland

Eight-seater Dynasphere designed by Dr J A Purves
Eight-seater Dynasphere, a monowheel vehicle designed by Dr J A Purves, demonstrated at Westland Flying Ground, Yeovil, Somerset, 8 July 1933. 1933

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