For 10 points, name this home of Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, and St. Paul's Cathedral.
A photographer from this country neatly arranged white porcelain on four for his Articles of China. That man photographed a ladder resting on and casting its shadow over a haystack, and showed a broom leaning against the wall of a shadowy open doorway in another work. The creator of a photography book called The Pencil of Nature was from this country, as was a man who scattered cannonballs over an empty dirt road to prepare his image entitled Valley of the Shadow of Death. The Mountain Nymph and Beatrice Cenci exemplify the work of another photographer from this country, whose ethereal and allegorical portraits were criticized for their soft focus. In a photograph taken during World War II, the (*) dome of a cathedral in this nation rises over smoke clouds and the surrounding ruins. One of this country's leaders was often depicted making a V with his fingers. For 10 points, name this home of Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, and St. Paul's Cathedral.
A photographer from this country neatly arranged white porcelain on four for his Articles of China.
United Kingdom [or Great Britain; prompt on England]