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
Social Democratic Federation
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The Social Democratic Federation was a British socialist political party. The first socialist party in Britain, it was founded by H. M. Hyndman in 1881. Its members included William Morris, George Lan
SDF founder Henry Hyndman
SDF election leaflet, 1896