Four Generations of British Monarchs – Queen Victoria ( ), Edward VII ( ), George V ( ), and the uncrowned Edward VIII (1936)

The Suffragettes also burned down churches as the Church of England was against what they wanted; they vandalised Oxford Street, apparently breaking all the windows in this famous street; they chained themselves to Buckingham Palace as the Royal Family were seen to be against women having the right to vote; they hired out boats, sailed up the Thames and shouted abuse through loud hailers at Parliament as it sat; politicians were attacked as they went to work, and their homes were fire bombed. Golf courses were vandalised. Mailbox contents were set on fire. Others refused to pay their tax.Oxford Street

Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested

A suffragist (possibly Emmeline Pankhurst) on a hunger strike, being forcibly fed with a nasal tube at HM Prison Holloway, Islington, London, ca

King George in 1923

"A good riddance" A 1917 Punch cartoon depicts George sweeping away his German titles.Punch

Lord Kitchener;s Recruitment Poster was an intimidating piece of propaganda that stares at you where ever you are.

The British army in August 1914 was a regular professional army. By European standards it was tiny, about 350,000 men. In 1914 men rushed to volunteer for the army. It was believed that volunteers would fight more effectively than conscripts. By December 1914 the number of volunteers had fallen to 117,000 and by February 1915 to 88,000. The war was obviously not going to be over by Christmas and news of the conditions at the front and of the casualties was reaching Britain.

Conscription is compulsory military service and it was introduced in Britain for the first time by the Military Service Act of January 1916

Workers demonstrating during the General Strike of 1926

2 May 1916: Easter Rising signals start of republican revolution in Ireland Irish nationalists proclaim the Irish Republic, but British troops arrive to put them down. Dublin is paralysed by street fighting which lasts for days A barricade made of carts in Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, during the Easter Rising.