List of protests in the United Kingdom

This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom. Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights, LGBTQ rights and climate change. In Northern Ireland, protest marches have been particularly contentious, including Bloody Sunday.

Around April 2019 London's Metropolitan Police decided, as a matter of policy, to stop providing crowd estimates unless there were specific reasons to do so (criminal justice, national security). This policy appears to have been reversed in late 2023, with the media reporting official police estimates for crowds from October that year, as shown in the table.

Suffrage and democracy

 * Chartists
 * Suffragettes
 * Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
 * Peterloo Massacre
 * Reform League

Poverty

 * 1920 blind march
 * Merthyr Rising 1831
 * Hunger marches, National Hunger March, 1932
 * Jarrow March
 * Make Poverty History

Labour disputes

 * See Category:Labour disputes in the United Kingdom


 * 1842 General Strike
 * Welsh coal strike of 1898
 * Tonypandy Riot
 * British police strikes in 1918 and 1919
 * Battle of George Square
 * 1926 United Kingdom general strike
 * Invergordon Mutiny
 * Three-Day Week
 * Grunwick dispute
 * Winter of Discontent
 * UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
 * Battle of Orgreave
 * Wapping dispute
 * Liverpool dockers' strike (1995–98)
 * 2002-2003 UK firefighter dispute
 * Gate Gourmet.
 * 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes

Rights

 * 1994 Criminal Justice Bill protests
 * Fathers 4 Justice
 * Gay Liberation Front
 * OutRage!
 * Feminist history in the United Kingdom
 * 1990 Strangeways Prison riot
 * Gurkha Justice Campaign
 * 2010 UK student protests
 * George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom
 * COVID-19 anti-lockdown protests in the United Kingdom
 * "Kill the Bill"

Race and immigration

 * See also Category:Race riots in the United Kingdom


 * Battle of Cable Street
 * Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963
 * Battle of Lewisham
 * Anti-Nazi League
 * Rock Against Racism
 * Unite Against Fascism
 * Anti-Fascist Action
 * Blair Peach
 * Kevin Gately
 * George Floyd protests in the United Kingdom

Taxation

 * Poll Tax Riots
 * UK fuel protests
 * Rebecca Riots
 * Poplar Rates Rebellion
 * UK Uncut

Environment



 * Campaign against Climate Change
 * Road protest in the United Kingdom
 * List of road protests in the UK and Ireland
 * Twyford Down
 * Newbury bypass
 * Camp for Climate Action
 * Reclaim The Streets
 * Swampy
 * Plane Stupid
 * Stop Esso campaign
 * Frack Off
 * Extinction Rebellion
 * Insulate Britain
 * Just Stop Oil
 * Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate
 * Extinction Rebellion Youth

Animal rights

 * Hunt sabotage
 * Countryside Alliance's Liberty & Livelihood March in September 2002, with 400,000 marchers.
 * 2004 invasion of Parliament by pro-hunting protesters
 * Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
 * Pro-Test

War

 * Anti-Vietnam War Grosvenor Square riot
 * Protests of 1968
 * Conscientious objectors
 * Stop the War Coalition
 * Brian Haw
 * Protest against the Iraq War in London, 15 February 2003
 * Protests against the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

Nuclear

 * Committee of 100 (United Kingdom)
 * Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
 * Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
 * Faslane Peace Camp

Religion

 * Islamist demonstration outside Danish Embassy in London in 2006
 * Jenny Geddes
 * Prayer Book Rebellion
 * Pilgrimage of Grace
 * Protests against Jerry Springer: The Opera
 * The Satanic Verses controversy

Art and culture

 * Stuckist demonstrations
 * State Britain
 * British protest songs
 * Mark McGowan
 * K Foundation

Foreign policy

 * Israel lobby in the United Kingdom
 * 2009 Tamil diaspora protests
 * 2008 Olympic torch relay protests
 * 2008 Pro-Tibetan protests
 * 2008-2009 Gaza War protests
 * Global Day of Action for Burma
 * 2023 Gaza War protests

Anti-capitalist/anti-globalisation

 * 2009 G-20 London summit protests
 * Carnival Against Capitalism
 * 2005 G8 protests in Gleneagles
 * Stop the City
 * May Day protests since 2000
 * Occupy movement in the United Kingdom

Troubles in Northern Ireland

 * Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
 * 1969 Northern Ireland Riots
 * Battle of the Bogside
 * Parades in Northern Ireland
 * Drumcree conflict
 * Bloody Sunday
 * Blanket protest
 * Dirty protest
 * 1981 Irish hunger strike
 * Ulster Says No

Other

 * Bedroom Tax protests (2013-?)
 * Red Clydeside
 * Luddites
 * Swing Riots
 * Radical War
 * Tolpuddle Martyrs
 * Temperance movement
 * Skeleton Army
 * "Put It To The People" anti-Brexit march (2019)