June's Visual Primary Sources for the History Classroom
Activities for the History Classroom

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?

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

(Copyright The Official John Heartfield Exhibition & Archive)
Question: Why did John Heartfield call his photomontage "On the founding of the State Church?

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