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WW2 Poster -- Flies Foul Food -- Keep Food Covered
Flies Foul Food - Diarrhoea and Dysentery Follow. Keep Food Covered! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper. Anti-dysentery

WW2 Poster -- Flies Foul Food
Flies Foul Food. Your health depends on wholesome food - keep it covered from flies! Colour lithograph poster after 2nd Lt Stacey Hopper

WW2 Poster -- What are you doing about Education?
What are YOU doing about EDUCATION Army Education Poster, by Sgt H F (Fred) Darking (1911-1999), Royal Engineers. Date: 1945

Blitz in London scene in a fire station control room, WW2
Blitz in London -- scene at night in a fire station control room, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940

British Information Poster, WW1
Turn Your Silver into Bullets at the Post Office, 1915. Chromolithograph poster, artist unknown, published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee as Poster No

Display of exhibits about the London Fire Brigade, March 1955, with photographs, helmets and a model firefighting appliance. Date: 1955

ɣole de perfectionnement de Chateauroux - La Piste - WWI
ɣ ole de perfectionnement de Chateauroux - La Piste. On reverse - MɃ ANOS D ANNAM ET TRAVAILLEURS KABYLES - Camp de Chateauroux - 1916. Further information follows heading

ɣole d Aviation - Le Pingoin - WWI
ɣ ole d Aviation - Le Pingoin. On reverse - A L ENTRAINEMENT, PINGOUIN & DOUBLE COMMANDE. Further information follows heading. Maurice Busset (1879-1936)

La division aerienne - Somme - WWI
La division aerienne - charge en t괥 de l infanterie - Bataille de la Somme. 1918. On reverse - L AVIATION MARITIME, GARDIENNE DE L OCɁ N - Pointe de Graves - Juin 1918

Guynemer - Le retour de l AS. On reverse - GUYNEMER AU PANTHɏ N - Jour de la Toussaint - 1917. Further information follows heading. Maurice Busset (1879-1936)

Les Grands As : Fonck - Guynemer - Madon - Nungesser - Heurtaux. On reverse - BLASONS ET COSTUMES DES CHEVALIERS Aɒ IENS - giving further information in French. Maurice Busset (1879-1936)

ɣole d Aviation : La double commande
ɣ ole d Aviation : La double commande. On reverse - COMMENT ON DEVIENT AVIATEUR - ɣ ole de Chateauroux - 1916 - giving further information in French. Maurice Busset (1879-1936)

ɣole de tir aerien du lac de Cazeaux - Tir sur ballonars
ɣ ole de tir aerien du lac de Cazeaux - Tir sur ballonars. On reverse - HYDRAVIONS & SOUS-MARINS - Golfe de Gascogne - 1918 giving further information in French. Maurice Busset (1879-1936)

Brass plate, on a wooden plinth- CART WATER TANK
Brass plate, on a wooden plinth, with the following information - CART WATER TANK VI/15, T & B REG. NO. E131548. Trench Art

Angel of Victory statue given to F.C.H. (Frederick Crosby Halahan) from F.R.E.D. (Francis Robert Edward Davis) - inscribed F.C.H. FROM F.R.E.D. - 1922 1929 - PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

Record of Services of the 79th Brigade, RFA, Flanders
Printed copy of Record of Services of the 79th Brigade, RFA, during the Operations of the Fifth Army in Flanders, October and November 1917 by Lt. Col. L. E

Section Sanitaire Anglaise 19 - Coxyde Bains, WW1
Section Sanitaire Anglaise 19 - Coxyde Bains, the house next to the Poste de Secours at Nieuport Bains, 1918, by Ernest Procter ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935)

Peronne - The Somme and the outskirts of the town from Prince Ruprechts HQ, January 1919, by Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935)

Ypres - The foot of the Cloth Hall, November 1919. Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935), ambulance driver and official artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1916-1917

SSA19 - The Poste at Paratonnerre, WW1
SSA19 - The Poste at Paratonnerre, by Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935), ambulance driver and official artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1916-1917

Verdun - An advanced dressing station on the heights, WW1
Verdun - An advanced dressing station on the heights behind the town, by Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935), ambulance driver and official artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1916-1917

Ypres - Ruins of the Cathedral 1918. Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC (1886-1935). Ambulance Driver and Official Artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit (1916-1917)

Section Sanitaire Anglaise at Coxyde, 1917. Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC (1886-1935). Ambulance Driver and Official Artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit (1916-1917)

Ambulance Station at Ancemont. Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC (1886-1935). Ambulance Driver and Official Artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit (1916-1917)

West Front of Ypres Cathedral from Cloth Hall, WW1
West Front of Ypres Cathedral from foot of the tower of the Cloth Hall, by Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935), ambulance driver and official artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1916-1917

Ministry of Information War Photograph bureau
Customers inspecting picture albums at a new bureau for the sale of official war photographs opened by the Ministry of Information at Coventry Street by John Buchan in October 1918. Date: 1918

Wartime information poster, WW2
Wartime information poster -- turn that GAS down! Less gas -- more ships. Date: 1940s

Diagram, The Riddle of the Ranks, WW1
Diagram, The Riddle of the Ranks, showing how a message can be deciphered during the First World War. Date: 1914

WW2 poster, G R Notes are the Key Notes
WW2 poster, G R [Goods Received?] Notes are the Key Notes of harmonious store keeping. Wrong information and careless handling causes discord. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

The massing of war columns
When the First World War broke out, newspaper readers thought there would be a constant stream of new information to keep them up-to-date with everything

What to do in the case of air or sea raids, WW1
What to do in the case of further air or sea raids during the First World War. Showing cross sections of buildings, and photographs of air raid damage to buildings in Kings Lynn

Ashley Havinden
Ashley Eldrid Havinden (1903 - 1973), advertising artist and poster designer, best known for his striking World War II posters for the Ministry of Information

Russian Soldier Using Semaphore
A lone Russian soldier atop a hill using Semaphore flags to communicate to other sections of the Russian forces in the 1904/5 Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1905

Wartime news satire, WW1
A page which at first glance appears to be full of wartime news, but which on more detailed examination turns out to be a satire on press censorship during the First World War

Illustrated London News advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for weekly illustrated paper, The Illustrated London News in its sister publication The Sketch, using the metaphor of a spiders web to convey the wide spectrum of subjects covered in

Illustration of a Town Crier, ringing his bell and proclaiming

William H. Fisher, Vanity Fair, Spy
WILLIAM HAYES FISHER, 1st Baron Downham (1853-1920) British Conservative Party politician. President of the Local Government Board

Uzbeks reading public decree
A group of Uzbek people wearing taqiyahs crowd around a public decree notice pinned to the wall of a building. Date: 1924

Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica books
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

Thomas Pennant - 2
THOMAS PENNANT Antiquary, naturalist and traveller throughout the United Kingdom, whose accounts are a unique source of topographical information. Date: 1726 - 1798

Thomas Pennant - 3
THOMAS PENNANT Antiquary, naturalist and traveller throughout the United Kingdom, whose accounts are a unique source of topographical information. Date: 1726 - 1798

Henry Jones McCance, DL 1829-1900 (1896). Wirgman, Theodore Blake 1848-1925. This was no 102 at the Society of Portrait Painters in 1896

Miss N. G. Jones is at her desk on the Royal Aeronautical?
Miss N.G. Jones is at her desk on the Royal Aeronautical Society information bureau at the International Aero Exhibition at Olympia, 16-27 July 1929

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Inside Information
" This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister. Inside Information - a little girl out shopping for fish is slightly disappointed to

Ministry of Propaganda and Information, Montevideo, Uruguay
Municipal Offices of Propaganda and Information, Montevideo, Uruguay Date: circa 1910s

Concert in aid of Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital
Drawing done by Phil May to be used to publicise a Flower Concert to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital Date: circa 1890s

Air Raid Shelters in the vicinity of The Coliseum, London
A list of Air Raid Shelters, their location and capacity, published in a London West End Theatre Programme (The Coliseum, Charing Cross). Date: circa 1930s

Whittle gas turbine in a disused foundry at Lutterworth
A Whittle gas turbine in a disused foundry at Lutterworth. A scene from the COX film The Wonder Jet. Produced by the Crown Film Unit for the Economic Information Unit

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