History World - Britain's history in old photos

2 Lads, Can You Identify?
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 6,626 Year: 1930

Family Outing
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 5,675 Year: 1930

Unknown Children
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 6,327 Year: 1930

A Boy and His Dog
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 6,718 Year: 1930 1 Comment

The General Strike, 1926
Work - Strikes

Buses and trams were run with volunteer drivers and conductors. Many young undergraduates enjoyed themselves at this work. The strikers showed admirable self-control at these efforts to defeat them, and there were only a few ugly incidents.

Views: 8,613 Year: 1926 1 Comment

The General Strike, 1926
Work - Strikes

Buses and trams were run with volunteer drivers and conductors. Many young undergraduates enjoyed themselves at this work. The strikers showed admirable self-control at these efforts to defeat them, and there were only a few ugly incidents.

Views: 8,076 Year: 1926

The New Britain Is Not Yet
Work - Strikes

Market Place, Wigan - It is peace - but the new Britain that was to come with peace has not yet been born. Industrial troubles culminate in the great coal strike of April, 1921.

Views: 25,102 Year: 1921 5 Comments

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

Railway transport was paralysed for nine days in September and October by a strike. Eventually the Government intervened, and secured a settlement. Photo shows a non-striking porter having a few moments' rest.

Views: 8,691 Year: 1919

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

The clerical staff at Euston Station became porters and unloaded trains carrying food.

Views: 8,127 Year: 1919

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

A food convoy in Hyde Park during the railway strike.

Views: 8,196 Year: 1919

Suffragettes' Campaign
Society & Culture - Protests

Demonstration were held almost daily by women claiming equal rights with men. When arrested for breaking the law, many of them went on hunger strike.

Views: 7,898 Year: 1912

Suffragettes' Campaign
Society & Culture - Protests

Demonstration were held almost daily by women claiming equal rights with men. When arrested for breaking the law, many of them went on hunger strike.

Views: 6,057 Year: 1912

Coal Picking
Work - Strikes

Coal picking during the strike, 1912, at the Pretoria Pit, Atherton.

Views: 8,890 Year: 1912 1 Comment

The famous siege of Sidney Street, Jan 1911
Society & Culture - Crime

Gunmen, resisting arrest, had barricaded themselves in 100, Sidney Street, and opened fire at the police. A detachment of Scots Guards and several hundred armed police were called out to capture them. Mr. Winston Churchill, the Home Secretary, seen in the photograph directed operations.

Views: 7,579 Year: 1911

The famous siege of Sidney Street, Jan 1911
Society & Culture - Crime

100 Sidney Street after the siege. The two gunmen were killed and several policemen were wounded. The ringleader of the gang, Peter the Painter, is believed to have escaped.

Views: 7,505 Year: 1911

Omnibus
Transport - Road

Pre-war London omnibus which would rattle along at a few miles per hour.

Views: 7,606 Year: 1910