Breakfast cereals, self-raising flour, yeast, baking powder, jelly, custard powder, lentils, pickles, margarine and dried vegetables were all 'invented' during the twentieth century.

During the First World War, Emmeline Pankhurst’s Suffragette movement turned its efforts away from violent protests towards encouraging women to contribute to the war effort. The war offered greater opportunities for women to work, replacing men who had been sent to the front line; they became drivers, plumbers, postwomen, clerks and land workers, as well as workers in dangerous munitions factories producing weapons and shells. And in the Second World War, many women served in the uniformed services, too, contributing in a more active way to the war effort. It's often felt that women's roles in both wars were instrumental in securing the eventual political and social liberation many enjoy today.

An animation by Winsor McCay depicting the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/ws5kGs_J-CM copyright: British Pathé...

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Churchill wearing a French steel helmet during a visit to the French front line on 5 December 1915, shortly before taking command of the battalion on the Western Front Here, he’s...

This Orilux torch was presented to Churchill by his brother-in-law Bertram Romilly on 15 November 1915 The torch displays signs of shrapnel damage incurred while Churchill fought in the trenches...

Churchill’s warrant to return from the front, May 1916 copyright: Churchill Archives Centre...

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