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Photo credits

Olympics: from Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games (digitised by LA84 Foundation)

Population: crowd on Whitehall, near Downing St (1914), from Bain News Service collection, courtesy of US Library of Congress

Housing and home life: children of an eastern suburb of London after bombing raid (September 1940), United States National Archives

Leisure and lifestyles: audience at a 3D ‘stereoscopic' film shown during the Festival of Britain (May 1951), courtesy of the National Archives

Incomes and poverty: ‘colliery lasses' during British Coal strike (c.1910-15), from Bain News Service collection, courtesy of US Library of Congress

London: Leicester Square underground station (1935), courtesy of Stockholm Transport Museum

Education: London County Open-air School (c.1910), from Bain News Service collection, courtesy of US Library of Congress

Employment: shoe-shiner and customer with policeman outside Parliament (c.1905), from Parliamentary Archives FAR/7

Food and agriculture: Henry Wharton at the Hoppings Fair in Newcastle (1940s), courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

The economy: Royal Exchange, London (c. 1910-15), from Bain News Service collection, courtesy of US Library of Congress

Monarchy: Queen Elizabeth addressing audience in Mackay, Queensland (March 1954), courtesy of the State Library of Queensland

Technology and communication: entrance to the Exhibition of Science at the Festival of Britain (1951), courtesy of the National Archives

Transport: buses outside Victoria station (1927), courtesy of Stockholm Transport Museum

Parliament and elections: group of suffragettes standing outside Parliament (c.1910), from Bain News Service collection, courtesy of US Library of Congress

Crime and defence: Andrea Laudano, arrested for larceny in North Shields (July 1904), from collection Criminal faces of North Shields 1902-16, courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

 

Maps

Maps in Workhouse to welfare and Do you know the way to Haringey? and Monarch Airways are © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Created under licence by the House of Commons Library Ordnance Survey 100040654 (2012) and Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland 2085 (2012). No reproduction, in any format, without permission.

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