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Rupert Brooke, c. 1915
Photographic portrait of Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915), the English poet, pictured c.1915

The Union Flag over the Lucknow Residency
On 15 August, 1947, British India ended and the two new Dominions of India and Pakistan came into being under Independence. New flags were raised at the new capitals, Delhi and Karachi respectively

Dalis Decor
A stuffed goat is a decorative feature in the bedroom of the surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989). Elsewhere in his house at Port Lligat, a stuffed bear served as a hallstand. Date: 06/08/1958

Dalis Studio
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) is photographed here with an enlarged photograph of a sea-urchin, suggesting a surrealist pattern to come - in the left foreground

Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 1911
Illustrated portrait of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), the English soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts, pictured in his Chief Scout uniform, 1911

Churchill / Clementine / 08
WINSTON CHURCHILL With his fiancee, Miss Clementine Hozier, on the occasion of their engagement

Dalis House
This is the house of the surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, in Port Lligat, at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees on the Mediterranean. It was converted from four fishermens cottages

Cliveden Reach, River Thames, 1908
Photograph showing three ladies punting on the River Thames at Cliveden Reach, Berkshire, 1908

Fire in Southwark, London, 1926
Photograph showing members of the London Fire Brigade tackling a blaze at Samuel Ward & Co.s paint and varnish warehouse in Great Guildford Street, Southwark, August 1926

Lady Glenconner, 1915
Photographic portrait of Lady Glenconner, formerly Miss Pamela Genevieve Adelaide Wyndham, pictured c.1915

Ruth St Denis / Jugend 08
RUTH ST DENIS (Ruth Dennis) American vaudeville dancer and choreographer doing a serpent dance (Schlangentanz)

The Heated Shoe, 1921
Illustration showing an invention patented in 1921 for a shoe with a hot water undersole, designed to keep ones feet warm on cold days

August 1951 by David Wright, showing a woman admiring herself in a mirror. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 VH-TJU John Roe (msn 47552 / Line Number640), first flown 19.08.71 and operated from new by Trans Australia Airlines

SAAB J29F Tunnan 08 (msn 29-640), on display with the Historical Aircraft Museum at Southend, Date: circa 1980

Bell UH-1H Iroquois NZ3808
Royal New Zealand Air Force - Bell UH-1H Iroquois NZ3808 (msn 11707, call-sign 08') of No.3 Squadron, at Middle Wallop on 16 July 1988. Date: 1988

VFW-Fokker VFW 614 D-BABI (msn MG.08), of VFW-Fokker GmbH, at the SBAC Farnborough Air-Show, held between 5-12 September 1976. Date: 1976

Republican Field Artillery firing near Toledo; Spanish Civil
Photograph showing a piece of Republican artillery being fired at Nationalist forces near Toledo, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Date: 01/08/1936

Grumman G. 159 Gulfstream I N601HK
Grumman G.159 Gulfstream I N601HK (msn 5), of H K Porter Company Inc, circa 1959-1964, at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1962

Hawker Siddeley HS-125-1A N10122
Hawker Siddeley HS-125-1A/522 N10122 (msn 25029, ex G-ATAZ), of H.K.Porter Co. from Pittsburgh. 13.05.65: G-ATAZ - Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd

Thai paratroop trainee practising a treescape - parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 08:The training of take the chute out from the body while be strapped in a parachute in a tree

EVENTS / BALKANS / SERBIA / 08
Serbian women learn to shoot. Date: 1908

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 VH-TJK (msn 47008 / Line Number98), first flown 24.01.67 and operated from new by Trans Australia Airlines. Sold in the US as N908AX to ABX Air on 08.01.83

RAF Hunter F. 6 - RAF Coltishall
Royal Air Force Hawker Hunter F Mk.6 XF386 75 of No.4 Flying Training School from RAF Valley, at RAF Coltishall (XF386 was delivered on 09/08/1956, given ground instructional airframe number 8707M)

Franz Ferdinand
Scottish Rock band Franz Ferdinand. Estadio de Anoeta (San Sebastiᮬ Spain). 09/08/2005

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson on holiday on the Dalmatian c
King Edward VIII (1894-1972), later Duke of Windsor together with Mrs. Wallis Simpson (1896-1986), later Duchess of Windsor on the Dalmatian coast in August 1936

Buckingham Palace prior to Renovation, 1913
Photographs showing two views of the facade of Buckingham Palace as scaffolding began to rise for the renovation of 1913. That year the whole of the facade was re-faced with white Portland stone

British Radar Installation, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a Fighter Direction Aerial system radar installation in Britain, during the Second World War, c.1945. On the right of the image a technician can be seen climbing the stairs into

Field-Marshal Montgomery on horseback, 1945
Photograph showing Field-Marshal Montgomery riding a white Arab stallion, Germany, 1945. This horse was procured by the Germany army in 1941

American Soldiers on the liner Queen Elizabeth, 1945
Aerial photograph showing American soldiers on the aft deck of the passenger liner Queen Elizabeth returning home to the USA, at the end of the Second World War, 1945

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