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
Trafalgar Square
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Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster in Central London. It was established in the early 19th century around the area known as Charing Cross. Its name commemorates the Battle
Bloody Sunday (1887)
…building up for more than two years. There had already been clashes with the police and with the members of upper-class clubs in Pall Mall, adjoining Trafalgar Square. The square was seen symbolically as the point at which the working-class East End met the upper-class West End of London, a focus of class struggle…
View of the square in 2009
Trafalgar Square, 1908
A 360-degree view of Trafalgar Square in 2009
A painting by James Pollard showing the square before the erection of Nelson's Column