A History of Britain, Volume 3 (79 page)

Striking miners asleep in the power house at Glamorgan Colliery, Wales, during the Tonypandy coal strike, 1910.

The militant suffragette Emily Davison throwing herself under King George V’s horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913.

Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst arrested at a demonstration outside Buckingham Palace, 1914.

The Menin Road
(detail), by Paul Nash, 1919.

Major Winston Churchill, wearing a French shrapnel helmet, with French officers at HQ French XXXIII Corps, Camblain L’Abbé, 1915.

Londoners celebrate Armistice Day, 1918.

Stanley Baldwin, prime minister, 1923.

Strikers read the news during the General Strike, 1926.

The National Hunger March passing through the village of Croughton, Northamptonshire, on its way to London, 1932.

Churchill, with his dog Rufus, in the grounds of Chartwell, photograph by C. Philippe Halsman,
c
. 1930.

The prime minister Neville Chamberlain at Heston Airport on his return from Munich, 1938.

Toddlers from Southampton await evacuation to the relative safety of the country, 1940.

The Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940
, by Charles Cundall, 1940.

Londoners shelter in the comparative safety of the London Underground, 1940.