London's Nightmare Size:M: 60 x 45cm Mass murder poster

Mass murder poster

bottom left The Chelmsford Petition

while the lower one shows his residence in Cardington

Rector's house in Newington Butts

London's Nightmare Size:M: 60 x 45cm Mass murder poster'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or