The following are a small selection of newspaper articles from the British Newspaper Archive showing a prevalence of severe violence perpetrated by women against men in the nineteenth century. Click on images to enlarge where needed. – PW

See also:

–Riding the Donkey Backwards: Men as the Unacceptable Victims of Marital Violence
–“Stang riding” as punishment for male victims of intimate partner violence
–The Henpecked Club – a 200 year fellowship of abused husbands
–A random selection of nineteenth century newspaper articles referencing stanging