A German woodcut depicting the Lisbon massacre. On 19 April 1506 in Lisbon, Portugal, a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected to be of Jewish background. The violence escalated into a city-wide riot that killed as many as
RUBBER STAMPED- Another stamp courtesy of the Stanley Gibbons website and dating from the George VI period showing a woodcut of a 17th century witch. In fact,the series this stamp features in is called exactly that: 17th Century Witch Woodcuts