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West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria station after their journey from Southampton docks, 1956
Picture Post revolutionised the way Britain understood itself. The groundbreaking photo-magazine captured everyday life, major events and shifting social attitudes, reaching 1.7 million readers at its peak. A new exhibition brings it back to life, revealing Britain’s transformation from the 1930s to the 1950s. Picture Post: A 20th Century Icon is at National Museum Cardiff, Wales until 9 November
Photograph: Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
American jazz singer Billie Holiday in the spotlight during a performance, 1954
This was taken the year Holiday first toured Europe and released a self-titled album
Photograph: Charles Hewitt/Getty Images
Roberta Cowell visits Paris with a friend, by Maurice Ambler, 1954
Roberta was once a Spitfire pilot, prisoner-of-war, racing motorist, husband and father of two. She transitioned following hormone treatment and surgery
Photograph: Maurice Ambler/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Tattoo artist Jessie Knight and customer, 1951
The Aldershot tattooist – then the only woman employed in her trade – engraves a butterfly on to a customer’s leg
Photograph: Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Sheep being thrown into the stream in Hafod y Llan, Eryri, 1951
One Snowdonian sheep takes the plunge while others look down in anticipation
Photograph: Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A Redcoat at a Butlin’s holiday camp, Skegness, 1955
The Butlins staffer draws the attention of male holiday makers
Photograph: Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A man in an East End pub shows off his tattoos, London, 1946
Stripped to the waist, the man enjoys a beer while displaying the tattoos on his chest and arms
Photograph: Bill Brandt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A young boy ambushes another around a street corner, 1954
Each boy holds his toy gun at the ready
Photograph: Thurston Hopkins/Getty Images
Brigitte Bardot reading about herself in Picture Post during a break in filming, 1956
The French actor, dressed in a corset and bridal veil, smokes a cigarette while she flicks through a photospread of herself in San Tropez, France
Photograph: Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
First officer Maureen Dunlop, ferry pilot from the Air Transport Auxiliary, 1944
Dunlop helped transport newly manufactured aircraft from the factory to the aerodrome during the second world war
Photograph: Leonard McCombe/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A recent immigrant from South Africa talks to a man at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, 1955
South African nursery nurse Patricia Farrier talks to a man after moving to England – she had never been to a non-apartheid country before
Photograph: Alex Dellow/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A woman working in a tailor’s shop during the Blitz, London, 1940
Arriving for work as usual, Mrs Marsh works among the broken glass of a tailor’s shop after an air raid on the East End of London
Photograph: Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A delegate at the Fifth Pan-African Congress, Manchester, 1945
The man sits in front of a poster at the event which is being held at Chorlton-on-Medlock town hall in Manchester
Photograph: John Deakin/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
