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Image galleries

Black and white photograph: Armoured vehicles leaving the Docks in a line, crowds gather on either side of the road

A General Strike

Press photos of Britain during the 1926 General Strike

Former Chilean president Salvador Allende addressing a crowd during a public speech.

Chilean Solidarity

Documents about the UK solidarity movement following the 1973 Chilean coup

Sticker featuring an illustration of a man with his hand held out, palm up, accompanied by the text 'DEMAND JUSTICE FOR ETHIOPIA'

The Defence of Ethiopia

Documents relating to the international response to the Italian occupation of Abyssinia in 1935

Photograph: a woman about to leave for work on a bicycle talks to the husband who is doing housework

Freedom on two wheels

Documents relating to the New Woman and the bicycle - fashion, racing and romance

Black and white image of a land worker standing outdoors next to tables and chairs

The Land Worker: rural life between the wars

A radical view of rural life between 1915-1934 from the journal of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers

Street decorated with swastika flags for the Olympics, Berlin, 29 July 1936

Nazi Germany in 1936

Press photos of Berlin during preparations for the Olympics and Nuremburg

Black and white portrait of a Head Mistress wearing a white hat, glasses, a black blouse, and a crucifix neckless

Pioneering Head Mistresses

Portraits from an 1890 photograph album

Police officer on a horse in Red Square; a large building (The State Historical Museum) in the background

The Public Face of Revolution

Snapshots of Russia in 1925

Group of men gathered on the street holding up a banner that portrays a gallows and the writing "RESERVIERTERPLATZ FURDIEFASZISTEN"

Revolutionary Germany, 1918-1924

Photographs of Germany during the tumultuous years immediately after the First World War

Drawn illustration of a man lecturing a woman who has a glass of beer in her hand; it reads: THE "LECTURER" : "I'll do your thinking for you, Missus". THE "WORKING WOMAN" : "I don't think you will, Mister"

"Rob you of your beer"

Publicity material from the British fight against prohibition, 1920-1926

Black and white photograph of three men standing by a large machine in a science laboratory

Science and technology at Warwick

Photographs from the University Archive

Balck and white photograph of a group of men standing in the middle of a large crowd at then National Transport Strike holding a "Liverpool Branch" banner

Transport strike, 1911

Photographs and other images relating to the national transport strikes

Black and while photograph of people standing in front of a "Workers Union - South Wales District" banner

United We Stand: Photographs of the Workers' Union, 1911-1921

From Charlie Chaplin to the Liverpool dock strike - photos of demonstrations, strikes and social events