Headlines Collection

Wall St Crash 1929
The Wall Street Crash makes the headlines of the late news issue

Castle street, Arncroach, Fife, Scotland
Castle Street, Arncroach, Fife, Scotland. The newspaper headlines detail a fatal rail crash, although this has not been so far identified precisely. Date: circa 1910s

Daily Sketch front cover - 1953 Coronation
Front cover of the Daily Sketch magazine from June 3rd 1953, the day after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with a photograph of the duke of Edinburgh paying homage to his wife after the ceremony

Daily Chronicle, Never more confident of victory, WW1
Daily Chronicle, original news stand poster, " Never more confident of victory" -- Mr Asquith, 29 July 1915, First World War. 1915

Newspaper Seller 1933
A newspaper seller in a flat cap and overcoat stands next to his stall on Wednesday, March 1st, 1933. Headlines include The Times: The Arms Embargo - Geneva Comment and Dictatorship in Germany

Smithfield Street C1935
A man leans against a postbox while two others sit down and watch the world go by in a Smithfield street

Weymoor Post Office and Hall's Newsagents Shop, Harborne, south-west Birmingham. Note the K3 telephone box/booth/kiosk (right) - the K3, introduced in 1929, again by Giles Gilbert Scott

WW2 Christmas Card, William Charles Crocker
An illustrated front and reverse of a WW2 Christmas greetings card issued by Mr. and Mrs. William Charles Crocker. The image shows wartime figures carrying

Willis & Son newsagents, Lime Street, East London
Willis & Son newsagents, booksellers and stationers, shop front, 28 Lime Street, East London Date: circa 1915

RMS Olympic - promotional poster showing accommodation on board for all classes, prices and news items, following the final refit in 1933. 24 x 18 inches. Date: circa 1933

RMS Titanic - The Star newspaper, London, front page, Monday 15 April 1912, reporting on the disaster

A week of political stories
Headlines of different newspaper for the week. The Pall Mall Gazette, The Globe, The Daily Telegraph and the Evening standard all giving the top stories for that week. The left image is of Mr

Cunard Steam Ship Company's Ocean Times newspaper
Front page of Cunard Steam Ship Company's Ocean Times newspaper, 26 July 1953, RMS Mauretania, North Atlantic edition Date: 1953

Advert, Save Paper, Ford Motor Company WW2
Advert, Save Paper, Ford Motor Company, WW2 - call for wartime paper recycling. Date: 1942

Sybil Thorndike, British actress of stage and screen
Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976), British actress of stage and screen. An active member of the Labour Party, she is seen here holding a copy of the left-wing newspaper, the Morning Star

David Warburton, trades unionist, at a conference
David Warburton (b 1942), British trades unionist with the GMWU (General and Municipal Workers Union), seen here at a conference reading a copy of the Morning Star newspaper. Date: circa 1970s

Paul Foot, British investigative journalist and campaigner
Paul Foot (Paul Mackintosh Foot, 1937-2004), British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

News vendor, Central London
London news vendor with intriguing banner, by bus stop in Central London. Date: circa 1930s

Newsagents window, North London
Newsagents window proclaims Time magazine still on sale after claims of gross contempt against it by Stephen Wards defence. (Profumo Affair). Date: 1963

Evening News and Star headlines warn of train delays due to snow. Date: circa 1960s

Couple on Waterloo Bridge, London
Couple stand on the old Waterloo Bridge, London, looking across the River Thames towards the South Bank, flanked by newspaper hoardings. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Little girl with dog - Cook at the North Pole Date: 20th century

WW2 - During the evening of May 7th, all over Paris, Special editions are printed announcing the German surrender. Date: 1945

W H Smith bookstall at a railway station, London, showing a young lady cleaning with a feather duster. Date: circa 1916

Woman selling newspapers announcing Peace Terms, WW1
Original copper plate (cancelled) by Robert Austin, Woman selling newspapers announcing Peace Terms, towards the end of the First World War. circa 1918

New in headlines 1937
Three models wearing the latest styles in hats. Date: 1937

Street scene in Weeley, Essex
Street scene in the village of Weeley, Essex, with a group of people on the left. circa 1910s

Newsagents kiosk in Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Newsagents - Corner Vauxhall Bridge Road and Gillingham St
Oswald King - Tobacconist, Newsagent and General Stores at 47 Gillingham Street (on the corner of Vauxhall Bridge Road), Pimlico, London SW1V. Date: 1908

Lady Astor, first UK woman Member of Parliament 1919
Lady Astor, the first woman Member of Parliament in the UK, as reported on the front page of The New Illustrated. Date: November 1919

Propaganda cartoon - The Kaiser shocked at War Developments as he reads his paper in the morning in bed. His displeasure at the total blockade of Germany may have (in reality)

Tobacconist, newsagent and stationer, 1905
A. Green, tobacconist, newsagent and stationer, 1905. Newspaper boards outside the shop proclaim headlines about peace in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. The newsagent stands in the doorway

Daily Chronicle, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
Part of the front page of the Daily Chronicle newspaper, reporting the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo the day before. Date: 29 June 1914

Times newspaper headlines, Britain at War, WW1
The Times newspaper headlines for 5 August 1914, Britain at War, announcing the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 5 August 1914

The Southern Star newspaper, Montevideo
The Southern Star or La Estrella del Sur newspaper for Saturday 2nd October 1943, published in Montevideo, Uruguay, mostly in English with a few advertisements (and one article) in Spanish

Newspaper advertisers, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, WW1
Newspaper advertisers for the African Standard, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, with wartime news of the Koenigsberg, the fight near Bissil, Bombs on London, and the taking of Przemysl. Date: 1915

Soho, London - pub in Brewer Street W1
Soho, London - pub on the corner of Brewer Street and Wardour Street W1 - the Round House. 1973

Woman reading a newspaper on a train and looking sleepy. Date: circa 1960s

Cartoon, W H Smith news stall
Cartoon, showing a man at a W H Smith news stall on a railway station platform. 1910

Woman in newspaper kiosk with magazines on display all around her. Date: circa 1930s

WW2 Christmas card, Carrying On! Date: 1939

WWI News Vendors Stand Poster
Daily Sketch newspaper -- Mr T (Tommy) Atkins, Ancre Ville (Ancreville), WW1 News Vendors stand poster. Showing a group of British soldiers occupying a French house on the Somme, northern France

Suffragette Publicity Newspaper Placards. Newspaper placards outside a newsagents shop show the headlines from the Daily Mail - Suffragettes Routed

Interior of carriage where Armistice signed, France, WW1
Interior of Marshal Fochs railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France, where the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918 to end the First World War

Titanic - Report and Timeline in the Sphere
Page from the Sphere with comments, reports and anecdotes relating to the sinking of the Titanic together with a timeline listing the events that eventually led the ship to sink

Sherwood Street, London - Newspaper boys
Sherwood Street, London - Some extremely jovial newspaper boys Date: 1901

Lord Kitchener, headlines announcing his death
Newspaper headlines on a large poster, announcing the death by drowning of Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916). He died when HMS Hampshire, on which he was travelling

Newsagent & Much More - Oxford
Sawyers Newsagent, Stationer, Confectioner and Tobacconist in Oxford. A magnificent photographic postcard showing a General Store on an Oxford street selling pretty much anything you can imagine

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