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• AIR RAIDS ON BERLIN, 1940

  part of "GROSS DEUTSCHLAND IM WELTGESCHEHEN: TAGESBILDBERICHTE [HEINRICH HOFFMANN]" (photographs) Made by: Heinrich Hoffmann

  German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels inspects bomb damage in Berlin following RAF raids on the city in August 1940.

• THE EVACUATION SCHEME IN BRITAIN, 1939

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  An early start to evacuation is made by children of Myrdle School in Stepney. The children assembled at school at 5am on Friday 1 September 1939. This photograph shows evacuees and adults walking along a street carrying suitacases and gas mask boxes....

• BRITISH POLITICAL PERSONALITIES 1936-1945

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Neville Chamberlain War Cabinet 3 September 1939 - 10 May 1940: Leslie Hore-Belisha (left), the Secretary of State for War leaving No 10 Downing Street with Malcolm MacDonald, the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

• BRITISH POLITICAL PERSONALITIES 1936-1945

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Agency photographer

  Neville Chamberlain's War Cabinet: 3 September 1939 - 10 May 1940. Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary (left) arriving at Downing Street, London.

• BRITISH POLITICAL PERSONALITIES 1936-1945

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Neville Chamberlain War Cabinet 3 September 1939 - 10 May 1940: The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, raising his hat to the crowd as he left 10 Downing Street on the day that war was declared.

• THE CIVILIAN EVACUATION SCHEME IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Young children from the East End of London carrying their belongings, including their gas masks, as they set off on their journey to safer areas.

• THE ALTMARK INCIDENT, FEBRUARY 1940

  part of "BRIDGETT E (MR)" (photographs)

  The German supply tanker ALTMARK in Jøssingfjord, Norway, in February 1940.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A newspaper seller carrying a placard announcing that Britain had declared war on Germany.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer

  Women classed as enemy aliens being escorted by police and officials to board trains at a London station, at the start of their journey for internment on the Isle of Man early in the Second World War.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, 1939

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Cameramen in uniform: Lieutenant Harry Rignold, the first War Office Official Cinematographer of the Second World War, and his assistant 2nd Lieutenant Gerry Massey Collier with their camera on the back of a Bren-gun carrier in France.