Amongst the nerves of the world 1930 Frame:black Suffragettes campaigning in South St

Suffragettes campaigning in South St Pancras during the General Election

View of Surrey Commercial Docks

came from a family with suffrage sympathies: their father was a supporter of the Men's League for Suffrage

A high-explosive bomb exploded in the escalator machinery room

Amongst the nerves of the world 1930 Frame:black Suffragettes campaigning in South StC R W Nevinson painted this dynamic image of Fleet Street when it was the centre of the British news industry in the 1920s. Viewed from an upper storey window at the corner of Shoe Lane, it looks east towards Ludgate Hill and St Paul's Cathedral. Nevinson was influenced by the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni's use of forceful lines and hard edges to convey ideas of conflict, atmosphere and noise. Branded the 'English Futurist' by the press, Nevinson