Bloody Sunday (1887)
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Bloody Sunday was an event which took place in London, England on 13 November 1887, when a crowd of marchers protesting about unemployment and the Irish Coercion Acts, as well as demanding the release
Engraving from The Graphic (published 19 November 1887) depicting a policeman being clubbed by a demonstrator as he wrests a banner from "a Socialist woman leader, one Mrs. Taylor", while other people are covering their heads to protect themselves from raised police batons.
One of the bludgeons used by the rioters
The Life Guards Holding Trafalgar Square
Annie Besant
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Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and activist, educationist, involved in women's rights, Home Rule, and Indian nationalism. She gave support to both Irish
Bloody Sunday (1887)
…Square as at least 10,000 protesters marched in from several different directions, led by (among others) Elizabeth Reynolds, John Burns, William Morris, Annie Besant and Robert Cunninghame-Graham, who were primarily leaders of the Social Democratic Federation. Also marching were the Fabian playwright George Bernard…
Annie Besant as a young woman
St. Margaret's church in Sibsey, Lincolnshire, where Frank Besant was vicar from 1872 to 1917
Annie Besant's house, 39 Colby Road, Upper Norwood, now bearing a blue plaque
Studio portrait of Besant, c. 1910