Jix—‘It is I who am the ruler of England!’—with his monarch at the Richmond Horse Show, June 1923.

A poignant moment in Park Square. Mrs. Kate Meyrick welcomed home on her release from Holloway, January 27th, 1930

Sir John Reith—the Judge of What We Ought to Want—at the National Conference of Wireless Group Leaders, January 2nd, 1932.

Amy—‘Call me Johnnie’—sets off for South Africa, November 8th, 1932.

Jim Mollison after his record Atlantic flight, October 30th, 1936.

‘As long as cricket is played with a hard ball there must be contusions …’ Larwood bowling against Australia at Nottingham in 1930.

The Reverend Harold Davidson, M.A., during his trial at Church House, Westminster, March 1932.

I dreamed we both were in a bed

Of roses, almost smothered;

The warmth and sweetness had me there

Made lovingly familiar,

But that I heard thy sweet breath say,

Faults done by night will blush by day …

THE REVEREND ROBERT HERRICK, M.A.

Spell-binding in Trafalgar Square. ‘Red’ Ellen Wilkinson at a great Peace Demonstration held a few days before Munich.

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet. Black shirts at 5/– each and the clean smell of blood.

Norman Birkett, K.C. leaving Lewes Assizes during the Mancini trial, December 1934.

Cecil Lois England alias Tony Mancini.

‘Strange as it may seem, I used to love her …’

Edward VIII of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Emperor of India—

–and Mrs. Ernest Simpson, late of Baltimore.

‘I think that we ought to take heart … that those who enter upon this colossal struggle have to admit that force cannot settle anything.’—GEORGE LANSBURY.

The year of Appeasement. Neville Chamberlain arriving at Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting, January 1938.