A Heinkel He 111 bomber flying over the East End of London at the start of the Luftwaffe's evening raids of 7 September 1940.
Unveiling of the permanent Cenotaph at Whitehall, by His Majesty King George V, 11 November 1920.
Cecil Beaton portrait of Winston Churchill at his seat in the Cabinet Room at No 10 Downing Street, London.
The western bell towers of St Paul's Cathedral in London seen through an archway after the heavy incendiary raid of 29 December 1940.
VE Day in London, 8 May 1945
Civilians sheltering in Elephant and Castle London Underground Station during an air raid in November 1940.
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
A winter scene of Bomb damaged buildings around St Paul's Cathedral, January 1942.
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.
Boys creating an allotment on a bomb site in London during 1942.
Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
Eileen Dunne, aged three, sits in bed with her doll at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, after being injured during an air raid on London in September 1940.
The Home Front in Britain during the Second World War
VE DAY Celebrations in London, 8 May 1945
Photography during the First World War; Womens War Work Exhibition
Wartime Communications: The Work of the Court Post Office, Buckingham Palace c.1941
A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941.
Nighttime view of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London in 1940.
The damage caused by a German V-2 rocket which exploded at the junction of Wanstead Park Road and Endsleigh Gardens in Cranbrook, Ilford, on 8 March 1945.
Members of the O'Rourke family sleeping in an air raid shelter under the railway arches in Bermondsey, London during November 1940.
A group of evacuees from Bristol arrive at Brent railway station near Kingsbridge in Devon during 1940.
Londoners sleeping in the passageway of a London Underground station, probably Aldwych, in November 1940.
Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight, 10 January 1940.
