The Great Unemployed, 1886. The Chief Commissioner of Police, Sir E Y Henderson, sits dozing in his chair, surrounded by papers detailing the minor...
'Ruffianly Policeman', 1866. 'About to Perpetrate a Brutal and Dastardly Assault on the People.' A member of the police force, a slight and rather...
'No Rough-Ianism', 1866. A clean and respectable artisan tells a vagabond, who is armed with stones and a broken branch, that his type of help is not...
Police armed with batons and demonstrators armed with cudgels fighting during an Irish Home Rule riot in Glasgow.
An election riot in the Great market Place at Nottingham when an open-air meeting of electors and non-electors degenerated into a riot with the...