Female telephone operators on strike in Boston mb-artist William_Walls Lord Derby (left) and Disraeli

Lord Derby (left) and Disraeli represent the Conservatives who awaited the verdict of the country following the 1865 General Election

This cartoon shows a representative of each slugging it out whilst perilously balanced on the top of a tall gibbet with the nooses already around their necks

A Ford emergency food van

View of St Paul' s Cathedral under construction

Female telephone operators on strike in Boston mb-artist William_Walls Lord Derby (left) and DisraeliFemale telephone operators on strike in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1919. One of many strikes that broke out in the United States in 1919. The authorities were seriously concerned at the prospect of communist uprisings inspired by the Russian Revolution of two years earlier.