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Industry, agriculture and commerce

Industrial issues

A car on the production line at the Talbot factory in London in the 1930s.
A woman munition worker in a British arms factory in 1943.
James Callaghan, former Labour Party Leader and Prime Minister addresses party members.
The National Coal Board takes possession of Britain's mines on 1 January 1947.
Two workers at the Vauxhall car factory in Luton, Bedfordshire in 1935 operating a giant press.
1944 Clydeside shipyard.

Wages, trades unions and industrial protest

A group of strikers at Smithfield Market in February 1922.
Failure of trade unions to challenge government is illustrated in this Punch cartoon on 19 May 1926.
1943 Tyneside dockyard.
A snowbound bus near Oldham in February 1947 - the extreme weather conditions reflect post-war austerity.
Union leader Frank Cousins addresses the 1966 Labour Party Conference during the economic debate.
Household appliances of 1962.

Countryside, food, agriculture and fisheries

Agricultural training in the First World War.
Horse ploughing in the 1930s.
A Londoner growing vegetables in Kensington Gardens during the Second World War.
The impact of foot-and-mouth disease - farm is closed off during an outbreak at Oswestry in 1967.
Processing dried tobacco at a cigarette factory in London in 1916.
A trawlerman working on the North Sea in 1953.