Downing Street mortar attack
Videos
The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government, on 7 February 1991. The goal was to assassinate Pr
Mountbatten Green, where two of the shells landed. In the background is the Foreign Office and to the left is the back of 12 Downing Street.
Downing Street in 1996
The security gates installed in 1989 as a result of the IRA's bombing campaign in England
On 11 May 1812, at about 5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a Live
Downing Street mortar attack
…List of bombings during the Troubles Assassination of Spencer Perceval 1991: IRA Mortar Bomb Attack on Downing Street…
Immediate aftermath of Perceval's assassination, 11 May 1812 (a 1909 representation)
Detail of a posthumous portrait of Spencer Perceval
A contemporary engraving of John Bellingham
William Cobbett, who denounced the government from his prison cell