Britain in 1921
A bloody divide
Republicans demonstrate against the
execution of IRA volunteers by the British
government, Dublin, 1921. The brutal
two-year Anglo-Irish War culminated in
1921 with the partition of Ireland
Urban decay
A family in one-room lodgings in a London
tenement, c1920. With Britain’s economy
stuttering in the early 1920s, conditions in
its inner-city slums remained grim
Crisis at the collieries
Volunteers man the pumps at Gosforth Pit near Leeds
during the coal strike of 1921. Britain was rocked by a
wave of industrial action in the early 1920s as many of
its heavy industries slipped into a long decline