File. Police. Baton charge in Thurloe Square during anti-fascist meeting

Reference No:
U DCL/9/4
Dates:
Mar 1936
Description:

Includes:

a) Two copies of Daily Herald photograph of police on horses with batons charging against group of people

b) Two copies of press cutting regarding baton charge by police in Kensington

c) Two misalliance notes and letter regarding inquiry of police charge (Jul 1936)

d) Map of Thurloe Square South Kensington (88ft: 1in scale)

e) Drawn map of police position at Thurloe Square.

f) Map of Thurloe Square (4.5in: 1 mile scale)

g) Nine press cuttings regarding police brutality and women being crushed at the meeting by police (Jul 1936)

h) Letter. Ronald Kidd to Professor Harold J. Laski, LSE, regarding adding Laski’s name to pamphlet (6 Oct 1936)

i) 21 House of Commons debate points regarding Captain Hope involvement, Mr Freeman’s statement and the question of barricading.

j) Report (20pp) on the reasons of inquiry, efforts to secure police evidence, and analysis of witnesses (n.d.). Document ink has bled, difficult to read.

k) 31 evidence commission of oaths from witnesses, signed and dated. NCCL commission of inquires (Jul 1936)

l) Nine witness statements to the baton charge (n.d.)

m) Statement from Robert Clark (n.d.)

n) Statement from Mrs Coker (n.d.)

o) Statement from Margaret McKay discussing how police surrounded a girl and began to hit her (8 Jul 1936)

p) Statement from Edward Charles Edmund Hempsted discussing how police charged crowd (n.d.)

q) Six witness statements (n.d.)

r) Two extracts from the Hansard newspaper (Vol. 310, No. 57) regarding disturbances in Kensington on the evening of the charge (25 Mar 1936)

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Liberty (formerly The National Council for Civil Liberties)