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Yugoslavia - Sokol Rally in Belgrade
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation). The Sokol (which translates as Falcon') arose as the first Czech Gymnastic organisation in the 1860s. Between the First and Second World Wars the organisation grew to have a million members. The Sokol programmes were organised to have mass appeal across all strata of society and across all age groups. This rally poster is from Yugoslavia
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, and achieved rapid success. As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies, and an independent Albanian state set up. Despite their success, the Balkan states were unsatisfied with the peace settlement, and the tensions among them, with the unifying Ottoman threat gone, would soon result in the Second Balkan War
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Joan the Maid - Kay Nielsen. The Most Noble Warrior Saint in the Christian Calendar
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When Love was Lost and Life was Vain: Pierrot Forlorn. In the Autumn of Youth
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State regalia kept at the Tower of London including St. Edward's crown
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A young girl in a fabulously patriotic fancy dress costume as Britannia. Date: 1910s
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Cartoon, So Just! -- Just So! (Disraeli)
Cartoon, So Just! -- Just So! A satirical comment on Benjamin Disraeli apparently managing to use common sense to balance Labour and Capital, and put an end to destructive industrial action. He is depicted as a female Justice figure, holding scales, with a rolled-up Speech in place of the usual sword. There had been problems with finance and with labour relations, but new legislation was going through parliament to improve working conditions and reduce working hours, resulting in a Factory Act. Date: 1874
© Mary Evans Picture Library
