Protestors Collection

Suffragette Dora Marsden Arrested
Dora Marsden arrested after a protest at Manchester University in October 1909. She is seen wearing her academic gown having gained a BSC from Manchester Owens College

Demonstration in London -- Tariq Ali (b. 1943, centre), writer, journalist and filmmaker, linking arms with others and walking along a road

Public protest, Kazakhstan, 1990 C017 / 9394
Public protest. People, assembled at a rally to protect the drying Aral Sea. Photographed in Kazakhstan, in 1990

The Pilgrimage of Grace (October 1536-October 1537) - a massive protest against Henry VIIIs break with the Roman Catholic Church, the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Protest, Lanlivery, Cornwall. 1993
Opponents of the proposed re-opening of a granite quarry marched between Lanlivery and Luxulyan armed with a 40 foot banner Luxulyan Valley say no quarry and led by a Cornish bagpiper

Strikers crossing London Bridge, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Strikers crossing London Bridge, between c1910 and c1915

Holding strikers in check, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Holding strikers in check, Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912

The Election Riot in the Great Market-Place at Nottingham, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Election Riot in the Great Market-Place at Nottingham, 1865. View of the...disgraceful riot and conflict which took place...when an open-air meeting of the electors

Coxey's Army Cartoon, based on the protest marched by unemployed workers of the United States, led by Jacob Coxey
3118799 Coxey's Army Cartoon, based on the protest marched by unemployed workers of the United States, led by Jacob Coxey; (add.info.: Coxey's Army Cartoon)

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London. Placards read: Black Dwarf, Axel Springer Today! Cecil King Tomorrow

La Revolution Russe; Les premieres manifestations sur la place Znamenskaia, a Petrograd... 1917. Creator: Unknown
La Revolution Russe; Les premieres manifestations sur la place Znamenskaia, a Petrograd, devant le monument d'Alexandre III; deja

Les Emeutes de juillet 1917 a Petrograd; Un episode de la Guerre de Rues, le 17 juillet, 1917. Creator: Viktor Bulla
Les Emeutes de juillet 1917 a Petrograd; Un episode de la Guerre de Rues, le 17 juillet, 1917. Russian Revolution: the Petrograd Riots of July 1917; an episode of the Street Wars, 17 July

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Un groupe d'eleves artilleurs parcourt la ville en cortege... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Un groupe d'eleves artilleurs parcourt la ville en cortege, precede d'un panneau portant ces mots: , 1917

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Des soldats patriotes se rendent a la Douma portant un panneau...1917 Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Des soldats patriotes se rendent a la Douma portant un panneau ou ils ont ecrit: , 1917. Upheavals in Russia

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Une contre-manifestation patriotique: des aveugles de guerre... 1917 Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Une contre-manifestation patriotique: des aveugles de guerre, guides par une infiermiere, promenent a travers Petrograd cette inscription: , 1917

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Le debut des gardes rouges: une manifestation de la des ouvriers qui, apres avoir envahi et pille l'arsenal

Anti-English demonstration in Rotterdam, March 2, 1781, 1781. Creator: Dirk Langendijk
Anti-English demonstration in Rotterdam, March 2, 1781, 1781. Crowds follow sailors carrying Dutch, American and French (?) flags run while a British flag is trampled. Period of Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

The Lambeth Election: the Hustings at Kennington, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Lambeth Election: the Hustings at Kennington, [London], 1857. The nomination took place...at the Triangle, Kennington-park...Mr

Riot at the conviction of Cornelis Halewijn and Herman Jansz. in Antwerp in 1559, (1652-1659). Design for a print

Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917

Woman Suffrage - Banners, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Banners, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Banners, 1917

Pacifists, 2 Apr 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Pacifists, 2 Apr 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Pacifists, 2 Apr 1917. Anti-war protesters at the U.S. Capitol rallying against President Wilson's speech to Congress asking for a declaration of war

Pacifists, 2 Apr 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Pacifists, 2 Apr 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Pacifists, 2 Apr 1917. Anti-war protesters at the U.S. Capitol rallying against President Wilson's speech to Congress asking for a declaration of war

Pacifists, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Pacifists, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Pacifists, 1917. Women with banner reading: Peace or War - Take a Referendum

Pacifists On Capitol Steps, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Pacifists On Capitol Steps, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Pacifists On Capitol Steps, 1917

Pacifist Demonstration On East Steps of U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. 2 Apr 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Pacifist Demonstration On East Steps of U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. 2 Apr 1917. Shows crowd demonstration with peace delegations

Woman Suffrage - Riots, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Riots, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Riots, 1917

Woman Suffrage - Riots, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Riots, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Riots, 1917

Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917
Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917. In 1920, women in the United States gained the legal right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment

Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917
Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917. Group of women outside Cameron House in Washington, DC, the offices of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917
Woman suffrage, between 1910 and 1917. In 1920, women in the United States gained the legal right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment

Woman suffrage, between 1914 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman suffrage, between 1914 and 1918
Woman suffrage, between 1914 and 1918

Woman suffrage, between 1916 and 1918. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman suffrage, between 1916 and 1918
Woman suffrage, between 1916 and 1918. In 1920, women in the United States gained the legal right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment

The Crisis in Ireland - The Procession in Royal Avenue on it's way to Ulster Hall, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Crisis in Ireland--The Procession in Royal Avenue on it's way to Ulster Hall, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

U.S. Capitol - Visitors, Etc. Woman Suffrage, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S. Capitol - Visitors, Etc
U.S. Capitol - Visitors, Etc. Woman Suffrage, 1914. Suffragists demanding the vote, Washington DC

Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917

Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Pickets, 1917

Woman Suffrage - Group Leaving Headquarters, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Group Leaving Headquarters, 1917

Woman Suffrage - Group Before Capitol, 2 Apr 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Woman Suffrage - Group Before Capitol, 2 Apr 1917. Anti-war protesters at the U.S. Capitol rallying against President Wilson's speech to Congress asking for a declaration of war

Jacob General Coxey Speaking On The Steps of Capitol, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Jacob General Coxey Speaking On The Steps of Capitol, 1914. US politician Jacob S. Coxey Sr. led "Coxey's Army", a march to Washington, D.C

Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. US politician Jacob S. Coxey Sr. led "Coxey's Army", a march to Washington, D.C

Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. US politician Jacob S. Coxey Sr. led "Coxey's Army", a march to Washington, D.C

Woman Suffrage - Motor Parade To Capitol, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage - Motor Parade To Capitol
Woman Suffrage - Motor Parade To Capitol, [Washington, DC], 1913. [American women demanding the vote]

Woman Suffrage Motor Parade To Capitol, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Woman Suffrage Motor Parade To Capitol, 1913
Woman Suffrage - Motor Parade To Capitol, [Washington, DC], 1913. [American women demanding the vote]

Protectionist Meeting at Lincoln, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Protectionist Meeting at Lincoln, 1850. A county meeting was the only legitimate mode of making known to the Crown the present grievances of agriculture'

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in

Great Protectionist Meeting on Barham Downs, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Great Protectionist Meeting on Barham Downs, [near Canterbury, in Kent], 1850....the object [of the meeting] being to discuss questions bearing on the present agricultural distress

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers protesting... San Francisco, California, 1939
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers protesting... San Francisco, California, 1939
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts made by Congress in relief appropriations

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts made by Congress in relief appropriations

Mass meeting of WPA workers parading up Market Street, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers parading up Market Street. San Francisco, California. The meeting was held in protest to cuts make by Congress in relief appropriations

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers... San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers protesting... San Francisco, California, 1939
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers... San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California]

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers protesting... San Francisco, California, 1939
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers... San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers protesting... San Francisco, California, 1939
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in

Listening to speeches at mass meeting of WPA workers... San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

Anti-Papal Demonstration at Salisbury, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Anti-Papal Demonstration at Salisbury, 1850....the sober, peaceful, and respectable city of Salisbury [in Wiltshire] was frightened from the propriety of its stagnation by a grand mock procession of

Scene at the Castle Gate, Lincoln, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Scene at the Castle Gate, Lincoln, 1850....what was the cause of their present distress? It was simply this - that the tenant-farmers

The Great Protectionist Meeting, in the Castle-Yard, Lincoln, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Great Protectionist Meeting, in the Castle-Yard, Lincoln, 1850....a meeting of the nobility, gentry, farmers, merchants, and others, of the county of Lincoln, convened by the High Sheriff

"De Foe in the Pillory", by Eyre Crowe, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Creator: E. Skill
"De Foe in the Pillory", by Eyre Crowe, from the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1862. Engraving of a painting

Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Engraving from a sketch by M. Mariani. [View of]...a demonstration in answer to the last declaration of Cardinal

Riots at the French Elections, Paris
Rioters attacking the Paris office of the Gaulois during the French elections. The election, held on the 14th and 18th of October 1885

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and author (1872-1970), sitting on the pavement with other protesters as part of a CND demonstration in London, under a large banner: Committee of 100

C. N. D. Demonstrators
C.N.D. demonstrators protest against the Gang of Four - Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers, Roy Jenkins and David Owen - who broke away from the Labour Party to form the Social Democratic Party

Demonstration supporting Nelson Mandela
A crowd of demonstrators calling for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. A large banner reads Mandela the world is with you'. Date: 1980s

ANTI=VIETNAM DEMO
Anti-Vietnam Demo, calling for an end to the war and for the release of Lieutenant William Calley, imprisoned in 1971 for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai village. Date: early 1970s

Roadside Picketers with Signs "No More War", USA, c. 1922 (b/w photo)
5974426 Roadside Picketers with Signs "No More War", USA, c. 1922 (b/w photo) by Harris & Ewing (1905-45); Private Collection

The Irrepressible Suffragettes Create a Diversion in the Lobby, from an article entitled The Reassembling of Parliament
KAT323435 The Irrepressible Suffragettes Create a Diversion in the Lobby, from an article entitled The Reassembling of Parliament published in The Graphic, October 27th 1906 (litho) by Cleaver

Victims of Science: Joseph Marie Jacquard (chromolitho)
724772 Victims of Science: Joseph Marie Jacquard (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Victims of Science: Joseph Marie Jacquard)

American anti-nuclear Ban the Bomb protestors - Germany
circa 1910s

Suffragettes turned away, illustration from an article entitled
KAT323438 Suffragettes turned away, illustration from an article entitled The Reassembling of Parliament published in The Graphic, October 27th 1906 (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Easter CND Deomonstration at Greenham Common, Berkshire
Young and Old protestors at Easter CND Deomonstration at Greenham Common, Berkshire. Date: 1983

Demonstration against Nuclear Power - London. Date: 1980

Combat at the Military Station of Chateau d Eau, 24th February 1848, pub
3090268 Combat at the Military Station of Chateau d Eau, 24th February 1848, pub. 1848 (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Polticial Riots in Buenos Aires
Police clash with rioters at the Union Civica Club in Buenos Aires. Polic shoot at protestors and rioters outside and on the balconies of the union civic club building. Date: 1892

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"Voices of Change: A Glimpse into the History of Protestors" Suffragette Dora Marsden Arrested: In a bold act for women's rights, suffragette Dora Marsden finds herself in handcuffs as she fights for equality and justice. London Demonstration with Tariq Ali: Amidst the bustling streets of London, writer, journalist, and filmmaker Tariq Ali leads a powerful demonstration demanding social change. Public Protest in Kazakhstan (1990): The people of Kazakhstan unite to express their grievances and demand reform during an impactful public protest that echoes through history. Riots at the French Elections, Paris: Tensions run high as rioters clash on the streets of Paris during a pivotal moment in French electoral history, leaving an indelible mark on society. Bertrand Russell's Stand for Peace: Renowned British philosopher Bertrand Russell sits humbly on the pavement alongside fellow protesters under a resolute banner advocating for peace during a CND demonstration in 1961 London. The Strength of C. N. D Demonstrators: A sea of determined faces floods the city streets as activists from Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (C. N. D) raise their voices against nuclear proliferation and fight for global security. Rallying Behind Nelson Mandela: With unwavering support, demonstrators gather to show solidarity with Nelson Mandela during his struggle against apartheid—an extraordinary display of unity and resilience. Anti-Vietnam Demo: As war rages overseas, impassioned individuals take to the streets worldwide to vehemently oppose American involvement in Vietnam—a movement fueled by compassion and anti-war sentiment. Protesting Injustice: Lanlivery 1993 In Cornwall's peaceful countryside village, locals come together to peacefully protest against injustice—reminding us that even small communities can make big waves when united behind a cause. The Pilgrimage of Grace.