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Britains New Navy in Training - HMS Raleigh. circa 1930s
The British Fleet - Spithead, 1914Britains Bulwarks. The great fleet assembled at Spithead, Portsmouth - July 16th - 20th 1914 for King George Vs inspection, three weeks after the declaration of war against Germany
Gloster E 2839 -Britains first jet aircraft that took to the air for the first time in May 1941
?Army. Protecting Britain?s future?, 1993.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by Ministry of Defence, 1993. Date: 1993
6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps - manoeuvres in Egypt6th Battalion Royal Tank Corps - manoeuvres in the Egyptian desert near Cairo from their base at Abbassia. This photograph shows light tanks in action over some rough ground. Date: 1936
Ras Prince Monolulu (1881 - 1965), real name Peter Carl Mackay (or McKay). From the Illustrated London News, 20th February 1965: Britains most colourful racehorse tipster is dead. Date: 1960s
Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928 (New York). Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939
Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, North CoatesBristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates, Lincolnshire. November 1958. Date: 1958
Magnetron Valve - Britain's Great Contribution to Radar. Date: 1946
The Ack-Ack SongAn illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Ack-Ack Song, the anthem of Britain's anti-aircraft defender, by Jimmy Kennedy. The image shows an A.A
WW2 Home Guard Greetings CardA WW2 greetings guard using the theme of Britain's Home Guard. The illustration shows wartime professions, including businessmen, mechanic, butcher and a land girl. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 Christmas Card, The Toast Is FreedomA WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration titled The Toast Is Freedom. The image shows servicemen of Britain's armed forces and home defence enjoying a Christmas meal. Date: 1944
WW2 Christmas Greetings CardA WW2 Christmas greetings card containing some quite minimalistic illustrations showing various scenes of Britain's home defence, including figures experiencing the holidays during a blackout
WW2, Women's Land Army Tractor DriverAn illustration showing a young woman wearing yellow, driving a blue tractor, doing agricultural work for the Women's Land Army
WW2, Women's Land ArmyThis illustration portrays a young woman standing by a white work horse in the middle of a patchy field, she is serving the Women's Land Army
WW2 Britain's Forces With AlliesThis illustration combined a number of John Hassal's works, portraying members of Britain's forces during WW2, along with their allies
Adelaide Hall in rehearsal. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator and Broadway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939
Adelaide Hall in Copenhagen. Adelaide Hall (1901 - 1993) was a jazz innovator and Broadway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939
The Home Of The P. C. CA drawing which shows the front face of the home of the P.C.C. Great Britain's first postal college of art, an institution to aid artists in the generation of income. Date: circa 1919
In Britain's RivieraAn oil painting of some white houses situated in a row alongside a lane. Date: circa 1918
Cunard ceramics, stoneware jar, MV MollietteCunard ceramics - rare stoneware jar relating to the MV Molliette, Britain's first concrete ship
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, OxonLiving Quarters, Britain's Atomic Eergy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire, July 1949 Date: 1949
Britain's First Foreign PostcardIn 1875 postcards were first allowed to be sent abroad. A Congress in Berne in 1875 agreed to the formation of the General Union of Posts within which Members could send postcards to each other
The first all-decimal shopSlightly bewildered Croydon lady, getting to grips with Britain's new decimal currency in April 1970, in the first all- Decimal shop in West Croydon
Allsopp IPA - Britain's Best Bottled Beer
Ballets Negres (programme for The Playhouse theatre)Britain's first black ballet company Ballet Negres co-founded by Berto Pasuka. In the 1940s it brought traditional and contemporary black dance to to Britain and Europe with sell-out tours
First Powered Airship - British Army Dirigible No 1The new British lead military airship Dirigible No 1, christened Nulli Secundus, made its maiden ascent at Farnborough. The early design work was carried out by Colonel James Templer
Britain's three Principal Bombing Aircraft 1940The Hampden, Wellington and Whitley of the bomber command, R.A.F. which were carrying out nightly raids over German-occupied territory. Date: December 1940
Temporary buildings after World War Two under construction at the Bristol Aeroplane Company's factory at Barwell. Date: 1947
Pilgrimage past the Unknown Warrior, 1920Mourners visiting the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, London. A British soldier who was killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. 1920
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator inCaptain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage
Ballets Negres (flyer for Embassy Theatre)Britains first black ballet company Ballet Negres co-founded by Berto Pasuka. In the 1940s it brought traditional and contemporary black dance to to Britain and Europe with sell-out tours
Alexis SoyerFrench-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books
Golders Green Hippodrome theatre programme - Adelaide HallGolders Green Hippodrome theatre programme featuring Adelaide Hall. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939
A tally to show each year starting at the beginning of World War Two how many men who served or serving in the war effort. Date: 1944
A tally to show womens homefront effort in agriculture, local government service, public utility services and transport, shipping and fishing. Date: 1944
Heatwave - girls enjoying a bathe at Victoria Park, LondonBathers enjoying the heatwave of Britains summer, in Victoria Park, London, where the temperature got to 97 fahrenheit. Date: July 1911
Hoopoe (Upupa epops). A regular spring visitor to Britains southern shores. Date: 1851
Norfolk Coach outside Leadenhall Market, London 1845Stage coach bound for Norfolk, collecting meat and game from Leadenhall Market in London, Christmas Eve. At that time, Britains railways had very nearly made horse-drawn stage coaches a relic of
Prince Philip inspecting a Bristol Bloodhound surface-t?Prince Philip inspecting a Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air guided missile at Britain?s first guided weapons air defence station at North Coates
Adelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, LondonAdelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London SW5. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator
Airstrip B3 Memorial, Free French Sqns, Ste CroixThe first Free French planes landed here on Liberated soil on 13 June 1944 as part of 2nd Tactical Airforce RAF. Present at the unveiling of the Memorial Area was Wing Cdr Johnnie Johnson
Adelaide Hall signed photo. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939
WW2 Poster -- Mightier YetMightier Yet! Britains Mechanised Army grows stronger every day. Recruitment poster produced by HMSO, printed by Greycaine Limited, showing Vickers Mark 2 medium tanks. Date: 1940
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting WaC (India)Photograph: Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting Members of the Womens Auxiliary Corps (India), 1947 (c).The Women
Felixstowe F5 highlighted Britains poor production methods-America delivering 33 against no British by wars end
Gloster F9-40 Rampage -Britains first jet fighter, subsequently renamed Meteor
De Havilland Dragon G-ACIT Beagle Aircraft Sywell 1966De Havilland Dragon G-ACIT owned by Beagle Aircraft Ltd. at Sywell on 13 April 1966, Britains oldest surviving airliner Date: 1966
WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Help to end the WarPrinted recruitment poster No 42: Help to end the War by enlisting in the gallant British Army, which is fighting Britains Battle For Freedom in Belgium & France
Women painting RAF symbolsBritish women working during the Second World War to paint identification marks on aircraft wings for the RAF. Date: 1941
Mr R M Balstons kiteMr R.M. Balstons kite at the Aeronautical Society of Great Britains kite display at Chobham Common, Sunningdale, Berkshire, on 1 July 1907
Britains first aerial mail arrives at Windsor. The Postmaster of Windsor hands letters to a postman for delivery. Gustav Hamel, who brought the mail from Hendon
The experimental shed used by Baden-Powell at the Aeronautical Society of Great Britains flying ground at Dagenham, 1909. Date: 1909
The Aeronautical Society of Great Britains flying ground at Dagenham, 1909. Date: 1909
The cover of the book A Ride Across the Channel and other adventures in the air by Col Fred Burnaby, published in London in 1882
Aeronautical Society of Great Britains standThe Aeronautical Society of Great Britains stand at the Olympia Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition, 11-19 March 1910
H. M. S. Victory illuminated at nightThe H.M.S. Victory, Nelsons flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805, is illuminated a hundred years later on 21 October 1905 to celebrate the centenary of the Britains famous naval victory
