Waving Gallery

VE Day. Outside Buckingham Palace

Crowds seen cheering and waving outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on May 8th 1945 (VE Day). George V and Queen Mary with Princeses Elizabeth and Margaret can be seen at a distance acknowledging the crowds from the Buckingham Palace balcony. They were later joined by Winston Churchill

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Taking a ride over the Isle of Wight in an aeroplane

Taking a ride over the Isle of Wight in a two-seater aeroplane. The lady passenger is bereft of flying hat/helmet and goggles and obviously therefore enjoys the feeling of the wind in her hair! Seeing the beauty Spots for miles round. At Shanklin, I.W. Date: circa 1920s

© Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Tom Gillmor / Mary Evans

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James Callaghan, Labour politician, outside Number 10

James "Jim" Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, 1912-2005), Labour politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1964-1967, Home Secretary 1967-1970, Foreign Secretary 1974-1976, and Prime Minister 1976-1979. Seen here coming out of number 10 Downing Street, London, possibly at the end of his tenure as Prime Minister after saying the fatal words, Crisis? What Crisis? during a period of industrial unrest

© Mary Evans / Marx Memorial Library