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Tensions Collection

Background imageTensions Collection: Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg with family

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg with family
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg (1884-1966), fourth and youngest daughter of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and his wife, Maria Alexandrovna (later Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg)

Background imageTensions Collection: ILN cover - Kuwait and its ruler, 1961

ILN cover - Kuwait and its ruler, 1961
Front cover of The Illustrated London News featuring the ruler of Kuwait, H. H. Sheikh Sir Abdullah As-Salim As-Sabah with telegrams of support from Kuwaiti citizens

Background imageTensions Collection: Iraq-Kuwait tensions 1961

Iraq-Kuwait tensions 1961
Page from The Illustrated London News with an article written by Cyril Falls on the tensions in Kuwait arising over Iraqi claims to sovereignty over the oil-rich state

Background imageTensions Collection: Iraq threat to Kuwait, 1961

Iraq threat to Kuwait, 1961
Page from The Illustrated London News, 8 July 1961 reporting on the tensions in Kuwait after the Iraqi leader General Kassem had claimed Kuwait should be part of Iraq

Background imageTensions Collection: Macedonian Gipsies at Royston, Hertfordshire

Macedonian Gipsies at Royston, Hertfordshire
Groups of Roma Gypsies came to England from Germany Eastern Europe just prior to the First World War and again after tensions in the 1930s

Background imageTensions Collection: Cartoon, The Pipe of Peace

Cartoon, The Pipe of Peace
Great Dry Chief. I do trust this won t make any of them sick! Date: 1921

Background imageTensions Collection: Iraq-Kuwait tensions 1961 - helicopters leaving HMS Bulwark

Iraq-Kuwait tensions 1961 - helicopters leaving HMS Bulwark
Britains spearhead in Kuwait - men of 42 Marine Commando embarking in helicopters of H.M.S. Bulwark to land in Kuwait in July 1961 in support of the Sheikhs request for reinforcement against

Background imageTensions Collection: USA - Union League Club. New York

USA - Union League Club. New York - Union League Club. New York. The club dates its founding from February 6, 1863, during the Civil War

Background imageTensions Collection: Riots in Constantine, Algeria, 1934

Riots in Constantine, Algeria, 1934
A road in Constantine, Algeria, after looting and bloody riots. From 3rd to 6th August 1934, intermittent rioting occurred in the Algerian city of Constantine between the Jewish

Background imageTensions Collection: Rioting in Dover

Rioting in Dover
Bloody riots in Dover, Kent, follow the appointment of a Norman (Robert of Jumieges) as Archbishop of Canterbury by the pro-Norman King Edward the Confessor, which brought tensions between Saxons

Background imageTensions Collection: Bismarck and Disraeli at the Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin, 1878

Bismarck and Disraeli at the Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin, 1878
Engraving showing Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck (left, seated) and Benjamin Disraeli (right, seated) in discussion in the Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin


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