What a woman may be and yet not have the vote. What a man may h

What a woman may be and yet not have the vote. What a man may hPro Female Suffrage propaganda poster, 'What a woman may be, and yet not have the vote. What a man may have been, & yet not lose the vote'. Designed and published by the Suffrage Atelier this poster contrasts 'worthy' women mayors, teachers, mothers, doctors, nurses, factory hands denied the vote with 'unworthy' male convicts, lunatics, white slave traders, drunkards and those unfit for service who have the right to vote. This propagandist poster was

Section 29 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

stands on box to address a large crowd gathered at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park

with theTower on the left

horse-drawn buses and trams

some inevitably falling and sprawling

He worked with five men to survey the ruins

Plate published in 'Life in London: or

This photograph was taken on 25 January 1917

Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details

The offices of The Times newspaper were also hit

so that they may hopefully enter the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead

Tubular steel quay cranes assembled at West India Dock for removal to appropriate berths by the PLA heavy lift crane London Mammoth