The news in 1936 – in pictures

The Jarrow marchers pass through Lavendon on their way to protest in London over unemployment in 1936
Photograph: PA

Snow on the Braemar to Tomintoul road, Scotland in April Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images

In the year that John Steinbeck published Of Mice and Men, Dorothea Lange was also capturing the hardships of the Great Depression. Here, Florence Thompson, a migrant mother, is pictured with three of her seven children at a farm workers' camp in Nipomo, California Photograph: Dorothea Lange/Getty Images

Oswald Mosley at a fascist rally in east London Photograph: Imagno/Getty Images

While her dancing partner was topping the charts with Pennies From Heaven, legendary American dancer and actor Ginger Rogers takes a break for a spot of sunbathing
Photograph: John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images

Heavy rainfall prompts flood warnings across England. April 1936 was reportedly the wettest month in 100 years Photograph: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

The crowd of spectators at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin raise their hands in the Nazi salute in tribute to Hitler's arrival at the stadium
Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS

Jesse Owens of the US in action in the mens 200m at the 1936 Games in Berlin. Owens won a total of four gold medals, with victories in the men's 100m, 200m, the long jump and the 4x100m relay Photograph: Getty Images

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times was released in 1936
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext

The Cunard-White Star ocean liner Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York in 1936
Photograph: PA

Crowds queueing outside the gates of Wimbledon to see the final between Fred Perry and Gottfried von Cramm. Britain's Perry defeated the German player in straight sets Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images

Soldiers escort a contingent of republican fighters who surrendered their position on the Somosierra front during the Spanish civil war
Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch/CORBIS

The first Butlin's opened in Skegness in 1936 Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images

A tramp pushing his belongings in a cart through Parliament Square, Westminster Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images