Digital Archive

The Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, April 10 1848 Photograph: William Kilburn/William Kilburn

Soldier, Dublin 1922 Photograph: Walter Doughty/Guardian

Passengers boarding the Queen Mary at Southampton bound for New York 1936 Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty

Neville Chamberlain returns from Munich 1938 Photograph: Tom Stuttard/Guardian

Debris at the edges of floodwater on Canvey Island in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation Photograph: Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty

Mr and Mrs Bromley, of Bleper, Derbyshire 1959 Photograph: Tom Stuttard/Guardian

Mystery players, York 1960 Photograph: Graham Finlayson/Guardian

August Bank Holiday, Blackpool 1971 Photograph: Don McPhee/Guardian

Liberal party conference early 1970s Photograph: Robert Smithies/Guardian

Coalface, Cresswell colliery, Derbyshire 1974 Photograph: Denis Thorpe/Guardian