Contribution Collection

Instruction booklet, Knitting for the RAF, WW2
Cover design, instruction booklet, Knitting for the RAF, World War Two, price one shilling. circa 1940

Greek-Latin Dictionary
Johann Scapulas Greek-Latin Lexicon is a contribution to Renaissance studies of classical literature when Roman borrowings from Greek are important to scholars

The Kings Message to the Royal Air Force, WW1
The Kings Message to the Royal Air Force, 11 November 1918, thanking and congratulating the men and women of the RAF for their valued contribution at the end of the First World War. 1918

YMCA Poster, Lend Your Strength, WW1
YMCA Poster, design by Adrian Gil-Spear, Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle, Help the Y Help the Fighters Fight, United War Work Campaign, 11 to 18 November, First World War. circa 1918

British recruitment poster, Are You in this? WW1
British recruitment poster, design by Robert Baden-Powell, Are You in this? First World War. 1915

Magnetron Valve - Britain's Great Contribution to Radar. Date: 1946

WW1 poster, Emprunt National 1918, Societe Generale, pour nous rendre entiere la douce terre de France (National War Loan 1918... to return to us all the sweet land of France). Date: 1918

LSO musicians supporting BBC musicians, London
London Symphony Orchestra musicians supporting BBC musicians outside Broadcasting House, London, 27 June 1980. The strike by BBC musicians began when the BBC put forward plans to discontinue five

Save your old waste paper for conversion into munitions: a vital contribution to the war effort. Double page spread from The Illustrated London News. Date: 1941

Janet Hogarth at Encyclopedia Britannica dinner 1910
Janet Hogarth speaking at an Encyclopedia Britannica dinner held to celebrate the contribution of women to the recent completion of the eleventh edition

Lady Sclater and volunteers, War Workroom Fund, doing useful work for hospitals at home and abroad during the First World War. circa 1917

Boot mending at Scaynes Hill Womens Institute, WW1
Boot mending at Scaynes Hill Womens Institute, West Sussex, during the First World War. 1914-1918

Vive La France! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Three Cheers for South Africa! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Three Cheers for Canada! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Russia All Hail! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Long Live Japan! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Good Luck Serbia! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Forward Italy! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

For Bonnie Scotland! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Bravo Belgium! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

All Hail India! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Advance Australia! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

England for Ever! - Patriotic children. Female artists contribution to the First World War effort. Artist: Flora White Date: 1915

Immigrants with their belongings from Euro leaving the ship in Ellis Island, to start their new life in America. Date: 1909

Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, CBE, HonFRAeS, 1887-1975, wa?
Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, CBE, HonFRAeS, 1887-1975, was presented with the Musick Memorial Trophy awarded for the most practical contribution to the safety of aircraft with special regard to

Alexandra of Hohenlohe-Langenburg with her children
Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg, Princess Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg with her daughters and future son-in-law in 1915: (l to r) Princess Irma, Alexandra herself

Humanised bottles and fruit on a Christmas card
Humanised bottles and fruit contributing to a bowl of punch on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Pliofilm from Goodyear 1944
What is Pliofilm ? Developed by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, was a rubber-based clear plastic used to protect equipment, especially weapons, from water and sand during the D-Day landings

Volunteer firefighters help the war effort in London, WW2
With a Heavy Unit donated by a private company, volunteer firefighters are greeted by a VIP and congratulated for their contribution to the War Effort

Organ Grinder 1886
Schoolboys stop to admire the monkey who solicits a financial contribution to the upkeep of himself and his organ-grinding partner

Signallers with the King?s African Rifles
Photograph: Signallers with the King?s African Rifles taking down a message, 1943. Captioned: Signaller taking down a messge

Sir Henry Roscoe
SIR HENRY ROSCOE chemist, whose greatest contribution to science was the preparation of pure vanadium Date: 1833 - 1915

Caproni Ca 42 three plane line up - Italys early contribution to heavy bomber development

WW2 Christmas card from home (inside). Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card with farming scene of ploughing in a field, with the motto Carry On! Date: circa 1942

WW1 - Tank used in Trafagar Square to sell War Bonds
WW1 - Mk.1 Tank used in Trafagar Square to sell National War Bonds. The sign visible at rear details which British city had sold the most war bonds. Date: 1917

WWI Poster, Think!... Join Today
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Think! Are you content for him to fight for you? Won t you do your bit? We shall win but YOU must help. Join Today. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, War Loan
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, War Loan, quoting from a speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: circa 1916

WWI Poster, Back Them Up, Invest in the War Loan
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, design by E J Kealey, Back Them Up, Invest in the War Loan. Date: circa 1916

When all men are mobilised
An illustration of two women contributing to the war effort, shown by their military dress, calling another woman who isn t helping a slacker. Date: 1916

Use of radar in the air war by G. H. Davis
Radar: how the most important secret weapon of offence and defence was applied to the air war. Its vital contribution to all the fighting services during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Cartoon, Night in Venice, showing people sitting out on the roofs of their houses during a hot summer night. It was the last contribution to The Bystander by the cartoonist Horace Sydney

Sir Andrew Noble
SIR ANDREW NOBLE Physicist and engineer, noted for his contribution to the study of ballistics. Date: 1831 - 1915

Sir John Denton French - WWI - Belgian Relief Funds
Sir John Denton French (1852-1925) - British Military General during WWI. Pictured on a postcard requesting contributions for the Charitable Belgian Relief Funds in 1915. Date: 1915

Musick Memorial Trophy
Awarded for the most practical contribution to the safety of aircraft with special regard to trans-oceanic aviation, the Musick Memorial Trophy was presented by R.M

Advert for Charnaux womens beachwear 1935
An advertisement for American beachwear for women by Charnaux - their newest contribution to summer gaiety and smartness. Date: 1935

Propaganda card for the Italian Red Cross
An injured World War One Italian soldier is comforted by the personification of the Italian Health service in a patriotic propaganda card, encouraging Italians to contribute toward this noble cause

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