June's Visual Primary Sources for the History Classroom

Activities for the History Classroom

[画像:Margaret Scott, Jane Short, Margaret McFarlane and Olive Hotkin exercising in the yard of Holloway prison (1913)]

Question: This is one of the first surveillance photographs taken in Britain. The photograph was taken from a van parked in the Holloway prison exercise yard in March 1913. Why would the police authorities have taken this photograph?

[画像:Britannia: "I can no longer offer shelter to fugitives. England is no longer a free country (1906)]

Question: Explain the meaning of this cartoon? It will help you to read about the 1906 Aliens Act.

[画像:John Heartfield, On the founding of the State Church (June, 1933) (Copyright The Official John Heartfield Exhibition & Archive)]

Question: Why did John Heartfield call his photomontage "On the founding of the State Church?

[画像:Barry Goldwater]

Question: Read the Prague Spring and then explain Herbert Block's cartoon.