June's Visual Primary Sources for the History Classroom
Activities for the History Classroom
![Margaret Scott, Jane Short, Margaret McFarlane and Olive Hotkin exercising in the yard of Holloway prison (1913)](00ArrestSuffragette1.png)
exercising in the yard of Holloway prison (March 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?
![Britannia: "I can no longer offer shelter to fugitives. England is no longer a free country (1906)](00aliensA2.jpg)
Question: Explain the meaning of this cartoon? It will help you to read about the 1906 Aliens Act.
![John Heartfield, On the founding of the State Church (June, 1933) (Copyright The Official John Heartfield Exhibition & Archive)](00heartfield1.jpg)
(Copyright The Official John Heartfield Exhibition & Archive)
Question: Why did John Heartfield call his photomontage "On the founding of the State Church?
![Barry Goldwater](00Herblock1968.jpg)
Question: Read the Prague Spring and then explain Herbert Block's cartoon.