Ducking Collection

Ducking a Scold - or Duckynge a Scolde. Cartoon showing the medieval practice of ducking women to punish them for a nagging tongue. Date: 1913

The Ducking Stool, Fordwich, Kent Date: 1909

Old Ducking Stool, Fordwich, near Canterbury, Kent. circa 1923

Fordwich Church, Ducking Stool and Ancient Town Hall, Kent
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ducking Stool and Ancient Town Hall, at Fordwich, Kent. Date: circa 1940s

Ducking Stool, River Stour, Canterbury, Kent, England circa 2008

West End riots: mob in St James street, 1886
A mob in St James Street, opposite the new university club. Following at an open air meeting of unemployed East End dock workers and artisans in Trafalgar Square

West End riots: ducking an unpopular speaker, 1886
Ducking an unpopular speaker at an open air meeting of unemployed East End dock workers and artisans in Trafalgar Square. The people were stirred to violence following incendiary speeches

Hallowe en in New York - ducking for plums. Illustration shows Charles F. Murphy holding Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, his hands bound behind his back

Ordeal by Ducking
ORDEAL BY DUCKING The suspect is bound and thrown into a river; if he drowns he is innocent, if he floats he is guilty

THE PRIVATEER DUKE
Duke, the ship in which Captain Woodes Rogers made his global expedition, harassing Spanish shipping, and finding Alexander Selkirk on the isle of Juan Fernandez

Maypole (Casella)
Country people dance round the maypole, the girls ducking in and out of the ring formed by the men

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