Picture No | 10221976 |
Date | 1923 |
Description | Unemployed men and hungry children 1923 |
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Here are scenes from the economic devastation of the first world war. 1) paying off hands - unemployed men 2) a school clinic 3) getting groceries on guardians' tickets 4) school children taking milk prescribed at the clinic 5) an unemployed father does the laundry while his wife 'chars' - works as a charwoman or cleaning woman. Britain suffered from the social and moral devastation of unemployment, due to trade depression and dislocation after the first world war. The repercussions of the war continued long afterwards affecting the most vulnerable in the British economy.
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Source | The Illustrated London News, 3 March 1923. p. 345, By Steven Spurrier. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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