| Description | Bromide print. Photographed by Thomas Clarke, Moseley. Newspaper seller on Victoria Square, Birmingham, bearing headline from the 'Express', 19 December 1901, 'Town Hall rioting. Man killed. Lloyd George escapes in police uniform'. The riot referred to took place on 18 December 1901 the previous day when the Liberal MP, David Lloyd George, made a speech critical of the Boer War and the Conservative Colonial Secretary and former Mayor of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain, to a hostile audience at Birmingham Town Hall. |