1. Robert Graves (1895-1985) was born in Wimbledon to Alfred and Amy Graves, the daughter of Prof. Heinrich von Ranke

2. The Women’s Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 (Manchester rally, 1908)

3. British suffragist poster, ca. 1906

4. Emmeline Pankhurst arrested outside Buckingham Palace and in prison dress (1910) The WSPU shifted to militant tactics in 1910, as did many trade unionists, plus Irish Protestants opposed to Home Rule for Ireland….

5. With little training, Lieutenant Graves was posted to the Royal Welch Fusiliers, a regiment founded in 1689

6. British Army recruitment poster, c. 1905

7. THE ISSUE OF BELGIUM

8. British survivors of the First Cameronian Regiment, photographed after the First Battle of Ypres, November 1914

9. Flooded trenches at Laventie, near Ypres, in December 1915

10. In 1918 Graves married the militant feminist Nancy Nicholson and joined the Labour Party

11. David Lloyd George won the “Khaki Election” in Dec 1918 Ramsay MacDonald, P.M., 1924, 1929-35

12. Sir Herbert Samuel, first Commissioner- General of Palestine, in Amman, Jordan, with T.E. Lawrence and Emir Abdullah, April 1921

13. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Author of: Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure.

14. THE PEACE SETTLEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1922

15. Robert Graves in Majorca, 1935 (he had just published the best-seller, I, Claudius)