Collective action by people in favor of a cause

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Multicoloured figures representing people courageously demonstrating solidarity with people with HIV and AIDS during Whitsun (Pentecost) 1988. Colour lithograph.

World week for laboratory animals : 17th-24th April ... / National Anti-Vivisection Society.

Aldermen of the City of London Corporation represented as Chinese and as monsters in procession to Westminster to protest against the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Etching after J.H. O'Neale, 1763.

French female figure modelled in wax, with various parts movemable to reveal the structure beneath, complete figure photographed from above, used for teaching purposes

World day for laboratory animals : 24th April: World day for laboratory animals : 25th April: Hyde Park to Earls Court, London, march, exhibition / The National Anti-Vivisection Society Ltd.

A glowing yellow and red fire and with figures tumbling into a pit as though hell in the foreground; an advertisement for a torchlight march entitled 'Fire and Tears' for World AIDS Day on 1 December 95 in the pedestrian area Mont-Blanc, Geneva sponsored by Groupe SIDA Genève, PVA Genève, Dialogai and AIDES Annemasse. Colour lithograph.

End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].

A regiment of clyster-wielding apothecaries orchestrated by General George Mouton de Lobau; representing his use of water-cannons in quelling riots. Lithograph by J.C., 1831.

A group of gay men in a protest march about AIDS prevention with quotes about AIDS and a declaration of 10 points about the rights of those with HIV; an advertisement by the Movimiento Homosexual de Lima. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Silhouette of crowds standing before the AIDS Memorial quilt in front of the Whitehouse in Washington ; advertisement by ACT-UP for an AIDS demonstration on Friday October 6th 1989. Colour lithograph by B. Rader, 1989.

A Chartist meeting at night: demonstrators carry a banner demanding universal suffrage. Steel engraving by S.P. Fletcher, 1848.

Comte Lanceleau with a large clyster to disperse rioters. Lithograph, c. 1830.

A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.

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Demonstrations

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Silhouette of crowds standing before the AIDS Memorial quilt in front of the Whitehouse in Washington ; advertisement by ACT-UP for an AIDS demonstration on Friday October 6th 1989. Colour lithograph by B. Rader, 1989.

A Chartist meeting at night: demonstrators carry a banner demanding universal suffrage. Steel engraving by S.P. Fletcher, 1848.

Comte Lanceleau with a large clyster to disperse rioters. Lithograph, c. 1830.

End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].

A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.

Demonstrations

Images from the collections

Images referencing Demonstrations

Works from the collections

Silhouette of crowds standing before the AIDS Memorial quilt in front of the Whitehouse in Washington ; advertisement by ACT-UP for an AIDS demonstration on Friday October 6th 1989. Colour lithograph by B. Rader, 1989.

A Chartist meeting at night: demonstrators carry a banner demanding universal suffrage. Steel engraving by S.P. Fletcher, 1848.

Comte Lanceleau with a large clyster to disperse rioters. Lithograph, c. 1830.

End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].

A hybrid of a cannon and a clyster is attended by General Georges Mouton and Gabriel Delessert, the chief of police; representing their use of the water-cannon to dispel an uprising. Coloured lithograph.

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