The Order of the Day; or, Unions and Fenians Product:Postcard View of Steelyard Wharf

View of Steelyard Wharf

The choir of the Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great during repairs

Charles James Fox stands on the steps of the Treasury hauling in a net from the Pool of Speculation

Ultimately meetings were permitted and peaceably held

The Order of the Day; or, Unions and Fenians Product:Postcard View of Steelyard Wharf'The Order of the Day; or, Unions and Fenians', 1867. This cartoon shows Murder rallying all her forces of evil. She tramples on the laws of the land whilst the men of Sheffield gather their steel and arms on the left, and the Fenians prepare their guns on the right. The trade union movement was still very young. Unions were still relatively small and their reputation was not altogether unblemished. The 1860s had seen a number of outrages and, in