Demonstrations Collection (page 3)

Defense! Long Island women : Home defense day : Exhibits - demonstrations - lectures - drills - music. Poster announcing activities related to home defense held at Adelphi College, Garden City

Danish Student Demo
The meeting of Scandinavian students in Copenhagen June 17, 1862. Date: 1862

Poll Tax demonstration, Central London
A Metropolitan Police officer in the middle of a peaceful crowd of demonstrators during the Poll Tax demonstrations in Central London

French Students Demo
Paris students demonstrate periodically against this, that or the other. With these medical students its something to do with the Assistance Publique... Date: 1892

Journee Des Femmes
Women process through the streets of Paris, affirming their status and rights. Date: 1980

Eastbourne Miners Demo

Student Fees Demo
An pensioner takes time out from her shopping trip to read the banners of the a group of female students, who are protesting against a rise in student tuition fees. Date: 1960s

Acoustics 1882
Various demonstrations of acoustics. Date: 1882

Bonus Army fought with tear-gas
During the Great Depression US World War One veterans, popularly called the Bonus Army, marched on Washington in the summer of 1932 demanding immediate payment of their Service Certificates which

Kennington Common
South London : a favourite venue for gatherings, musterings and demonstrations

Bloody Sunday Riot - Parliament Street 1887
Bloody Sunday, London, 13th November 1887, the name given to a demonstration against coercion in Ireland and to demand the release from prison of MP William O Brien

Home Guard march to lecture
Members of the Home Guard on their way to a field in the grounds of Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London, where lectures

Home Guard demonstration
During a Home Guard intensive training course at Osterley Park, in the west London suburbs, a car pulling a trailer, supposed to represent a tank

Childrens Strike of 1894
Procession of children, heading to Hyde Park in London, to demonstrate against their treatment by organ grinders. These children were part of the Organ Dancers Union

Fawcett / Hyde Park / 1913
Millicent Garrett Fawcett speaks at Hyde Park, after pilgrimage, on March 26th, 1913

Anti-Nukers in Cornwall
A large group of anti-nuclear protesters march through Camborne, Cornwall with anti- nuclear banners and signs

Lecture on Cookery at the International Exhibition
Lecture on cookery attended by a well-heeled crowd at the London International Exhibition of 1873. The short lectures, by Mr Buckmaster

Fishing Demonstration
A demonstration by Cornish fishermen demanding that their fishing rights should be protected - when the tourists are gone, fishing keeps the cash flowing in

France / Meeting Attacked
Communists in Paris attack a right-wing poitical meeting

Demonstrations at Napoli
The people of Naples demonstrate - not for the first or the last time - against their rulers : but the riots are inconclusive

Demo at Firenze
Demonstrations outside the Palazzo Pitti, Firenze (Florence) in favour of independence

Trafalgar Sq. Demo 1892
Wot! Allowed to meet in Trafalgar Square on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank olidays, are we! Then we just won t go!

Anti-Nuclear Demo Man
A anti-nuclear protester, wearing a gas mask and white protective suit, campaigns against nuclear power in Camborne, Cornwall

Garibaldi at Geneva
When Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italian unity, visits Geneva, there are massive demonstrations in his honour outside the Hotel Fazy where he is staying

Demo at the Bolshoi
Meetings and demonstrations are an everyday occurrence in Moscow : this one is held for a change in front of the Bolshoi theatre

Oastler speech in Huddersfield 1844
Radical politician Richard Oastler (1789-1861) addresses the populace of Huddersfield on Shrove Tuesday 1841 following his release from prison

Unrest in Hamburg / 1918
Unrest in Hamburg leading to political demonstrations

A Domestic Republic 1849
A DOMESTIC REPUBLIC The horrid scene when a mans wife and daughters, sons and servants, insist on what they perceive as their rights

Bloody Sunday riot in Trafalgar Square
On 13th November 1887 a demonstration organised by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League in Trafalgar Square in London turned into a riot after police

London match workers protesting against tax
When London match workers protest against a proposed tax on matches, police break up the demonstration with unnecessary violence

Demos in Hyde Park / 1931
Police arrest a man during demonstrations in Londons Hyde Park

1848 / Anti-Papal Protest
Demonstrations in Rome against Pope Pius IX dissociating himself fromthe movement for Italian unification

The 1st of May Dawns
The Dawn of the FIRST OF MAY, traditionally associated with socialist celebrations and demonstrations

Germans in Moscow
German fellow-travellers with the Soviet revolution take part in the May Day demonstrations in Red Square, Moscow

Artists Procession
An unidentified suffrage procession. The women carry artists palettes & brushes to represent female artists (possibly the Artists Franchise League)

Edinburgh Demo 1909
Mrs Haverfield as a mounted standard bearer at a Suffragette demonstration in Edinburgh

Coronation Procession
A birds-eye view of the march, which was attended by 29 Suffrage societies & ended with a meeting in the Albert Hall

END OF A DEMO... 1907
At the end of a demonstration, all that is left is a pile of bloody corpses

French Demo 1848
A huge crowd with banners demonstrates in Paris

Liberal Demo Crushed 04
Liberal demonstrators are savagely suppressed at St Petersburg, Russia by government troops

Cheapside Puritan Demo
Puritan demonstrations in London against the monarchy. Their actions included pulling down the cross at Cheapside and burning Catholic texts where the cross had stood

Womens Rights / March
THE GREAT SUFFRAGIST PROCESSION - led by Lady Frances Balfour; Mrs Fawcett; Emily Davies; Dr Bryant; and 9, 996 others, from the Embankment to the Albert Hall

Japanese Women Strikers
A speaker at a meeting of Japanese women strikers

Austrian Emperor Flees
Alarmed by the democratic riots and demonstrations, the emperor Ferdinand flees from Vienna : he will abdicate in December in favour of his nephew Franz Josef

Licensing Bill Demo
March of the opponents to the Licensing Bill showing a crowd of 130, 000, half of which had been paid for by brewers to travel to London at reduced fares. The bill sought to

Manuel Expelled 2
Manuel is expelled from the Chamber of Deputies : this will provoke demonstrations of popular support

Manuel Expelled 1
Manuel is expelled from the Chamber of Deputies : this will provoke demonstrations of popular support

Womens Right to Serve
Part of a mass demonstration in London expressing the readiness of women to take part in the war effort

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