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General De Gaulle

Rt Hon Anthony Eden MP

Description: Signed photograph of General Charles de Gaulle, future president of the...

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Uploaded on Jul 6, 2009

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Description: Future Prime Minister Anthony Eden painted while Foreign Secretary by William...

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Uploaded on Jul 6, 2009

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Get back in the knife drawer

Traffic in Tianjin

Description: Three knives with holder and cover. Objects are sometimes unexpectedly found amongst...

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Uploaded on Jun 23, 2009  |  Map

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Description: View of traffic outside the Temperance Hall in Tianjin (Tientsin). Western troops...

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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2009

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Great Seal of Elizabeth I

What does liberation look like?

Description: Obverse (front) of the Great Seal of Elizabeth I. The Great Seal was used by...

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Uploaded on Jun 4, 2009

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Description: "Advance party of 30 A.U. [Assault Unit] welcomed in main square of Granville...

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Uploaded on Jun 2, 2009

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Medieval Landholder with beard

Joyce Gall and the cotton

Description: Portrait of 13th century landowner in one of the Home Counties (Kent or...

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Uploaded on Jun 2, 2009

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Description: Photograph taken for the Central Office of Information of a factory in Georgetown,...

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Uploaded on Jun 2, 2009

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Votes and Vandalism

Awaiting Rescue

Description: Descriptions and surveillance photos passed by Police to the Wallace Collection in...

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Uploaded on May 7, 2009

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Description: Aerial photograph of lifeboat from the SS City of Benares. The passenger liner...

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Uploaded on May 7, 2009

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Drinks with Ronnie

Such Meetings Are Illegal

Description: Photograph of London gangster Ronald Kray (second left) taken in the months leading up...

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Uploaded on May 6, 2009

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Description: Metropolitan Police poster warning Chartists against gathering in London. In April...

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Uploaded on May 6, 2009

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Jane Austen's Will

Corporal Jack Harris's Pierrot Troupe

Description: Last will and testament of the writer Jane Austen, written three months before her...

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Uploaded on May 6, 2009

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Description: Prisoners of War interned at Rennbahn in Munster, North Germany, a...

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Uploaded on May 6, 2009

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Tell NOBODY - not even HER

Dick Turpin: Horsethief

Description: Poster from the Ministry of Information's "Careless Talk Costs Lives"...

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Uploaded on May 6, 2009

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Description: Tied bundle of court records including the indictment of Richard ‘Dick’ Turpin, for...

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Uploaded on May 6, 2009

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The Golden Speech

Thatching in Kathela

Description: Official printed copy of Elizabeth I's "Golden Speech" delivered in the...

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Uploaded on May 1, 2009

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Description: Villager "carrying a load of straw for thatching...Picture taken at Kathela, a...

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Uploaded on Apr 30, 2009

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