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Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Moroccan civilians on the Green March

Moroccan civilians on the Green March
A road is filled with trucks and buses carrying Moroccan civilian men into Western Sahara to take part in the Green March, a mass demonstration of 350, 000 people organised by King Hassan II

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: African soldiers

African soldiers
A group of African soldiers stand together carrying weapons. Date: c. 1972

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: African orphan behind weapons

African orphan behind weapons
A Mozambiquan orphan boy stands behind a rack of g-3 machine pistols belonging to Portuguese colonial soldiers who murdered his parents in the midst of the Portuguese Colonial War )

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Welsh hunger marchers 1934

Welsh hunger marchers 1934
Some of the hunger marchers who marched from South Wales to London in protest at the Unemployment Insurance Bill, which would set dole rates at a national level

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Female engineer at work

Female engineer at work
Miss Anne James, Lubrication Engineer (Tribiologist) of Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd. working on some machinery

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Suffragette Movement Social Political Union Wspu

Suffragette Movement Social Political Union Wspu
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Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Charlotte Marsh (1887 - 1961)

Charlotte Marsh (1887 - 1961)
Charlotte Marsh, one of the leading figures in the suffragette movement. A promininent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she was arrested several times

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Leo Frankel

Leo Frankel
Head and shoulders portrait of Leo Frankel, Hungarian born Marxist follower. After spells in Austria and Germany, he settled in Paris, where he was imprisoned for his political activities

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: GUSTAVE COURBET, French artist

GUSTAVE COURBET, French artist
Gustave Courbet 1819 - 1877, innovative French artist of the Realist movement and member of the Paris Commune Date: 1871

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Canvey Island protest

Canvey Island protest
Residents of Canvey Island, Essex, protest in central London, expressing their opposition to the proposed expansion of the petrochemical industry on the island

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: First British Built Construction Southampton

First British Built Construction Southampton
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Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Orient Explorer oil drilling platform

Orient Explorer oil drilling platform
The Orient Explorer, the first British-built oil drilling platform, constructed in Southampton Docks, pictured shortly before it was towed 9, 200 miles to Labuan in Borneo Date: February 1959

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: 1979 fuel shortage

1979 fuel shortage
A Texaco petrol station runs out of petrol during a national petrol shortage brought about by a price rise by OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Fawley Oil Refinery

Fawley Oil Refinery
An aerial view of the 3, 200 ft long jetty at the Esso oil refinery, Hampshire, England. Three of the four breasting islands are shown, which are able to berth four tankers simultaneously

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: London Evening News final issue

London Evening News final issue
Printworkers show the final issue of the London Evening News before its merger with rival newspaper the Evening Standard. The first issue had appeared on 26 July 1881

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: The Observer newspaper office

The Observer newspaper office
The entrance to the offices of The Observer newspaper, 8 St Andrew's Hill, Blackfriars, London, where it was based until its acquisition by The Guardian in 1993 Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Newspaper press linotype operator

Newspaper press linotype operator
A linotype operator in a newspaper printing room Date: 1960s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Thomson House

Thomson House, home to the Times and Sunday Times newspapers until its demolition in 1969 Date: 1960s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: The Sun newspaper office

The Sun newspaper office
30 Bouverie Street, London, home of the News of the World newspaper and also The Sun following its purchase by Rupert Murdoch in 1969

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Man International Newspapers Display Soho London

Man International Newspapers Display Soho London
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Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Daily Mirror Building

Daily Mirror Building
The Daily Mirror Building at Holborn, London, home to the Mirror Group of newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People and Sporting Life

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Newsagents

Newsagents
A typical small high street newsagents, displaying adverts for tobacco, cigarettes, and the News of the World sunday newspaper Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Parcel bomb

Parcel bomb
The result of a parcel bomb explosion at the offices of the Morning Star newspaper, which left the paper's postal manager Ms May Pateman burned and shocked

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: National Front march

National Front march
Supporters of the extreme right wing National Front on a march, escorted by police. One of the marchers carries a placard declaring the National Front

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Linotype operators

Linotype operators at work in the composing room of the Morning Star newspaper Date: November 1981

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Lofthouse Colliery rescue workers

Lofthouse Colliery rescue workers
Grim faced mines rescue men on their to go down the pit at the Lofthouse Colliery, West Yorkshire. On the 21st March, miners were working at a coal face unaware that nearby were some flooded 19th

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Morning Star gala

Morning Star gala
Retired Dockers Union leader Jack Dash (on the right) and communist activist Peter Kerrigan (on the left) help out on the Morning Star stall at the gala at Charlton House organised by Greenwich

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Young Mongolian archer

Young Mongolian archer
A young Mongolian archer. Archery is one of the most popular of the traditional Mongolian sports Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Mongolian cattle herder

Mongolian cattle herder
A typical scene in the Mongolian countryside with cattle being herded Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Mongolian Yatga players

Mongolian Yatga players
Artists of the Folk Song and Dance ensemble, Ulan Bator, play yatgas, traditional Mongolian stringed instruments similar to a zither. Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Mongolian wrestlers

Mongolian wrestlers
Wrestling is possibly the most popular sport in Mongolia, and Mongolians have won several Olympic medals in the freestyle wrestling divisions. Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Mongolian leather industry

Mongolian leather industry
The leather machining shop in the Ulan Bator industrial complex Date: January 1972

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Montague Colliery rescue workers

Montague Colliery rescue workers
At the Montague Colliery, Scotswood, near Newcastle on Tyne, members of the rescue brigade check their apparatus before descending the flooded mine

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Houses affected by subsidence

Houses affected by subsidence
A house in Cowdenbeath, Scotland leans at an angle due to subsidence caused by coal mining

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Miners wives rally 1984

Miners wives rally 1984
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, speaks to a large audience of miners, their wives and families

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Glenys Kinnock

Glenys Kinnock, wife of the then Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, speaks at a rally for women against pit closures during the miners strike of 1984 - 1985

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Maerdy Lodge miners

Maerdy Lodge miners
Marching behind the banner of the Maerdy Lodge branch of the National Union of Mineworkers, miners from the Maerdy colliery, South Wales, return to work following the end of the long miners strike

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Welsh miners wives banner

Welsh miners wives banner
Welsh miners wives hold up their banner on a demonstration during the national miners strike of 1984 - 85. The banner reads

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Scottish miners demonstration

Scottish miners demonstration
Scottish miners, their wives and children on a demonstration during the 1984-85 miners strike Date: 1984

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Derbyshire miners march 1984

Derbyshire miners march 1984
A march by the Derbyshire area branch of the National Union of Mineworkers during the 1984 - 85 miners strike. Amongst the marchers at the head of the procession is Labour MP Tony Benn Date

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Food donation for striking miners

Food donation for striking miners
A T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress)centre acts as a food donation collecting point during the miners strike of 1984-85. The long strike meant that miners families endured financial hardship

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Bubonic plague in China

Bubonic plague in China
Bubonic plague outbreak in China: collecting and carrying the dead in Tientsin (now Tianjin). Date: 1911

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Demonstration in support of miners 1984

Demonstration in support of miners 1984
A demonstration in support of the miners during the strike of 1984 - 85 Date: 1984

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Miners widows protest

Miners widows protest
The widows of British coal miners protest, seeking greater compensation for the death of their husbands. Date: 1970s

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Supporting Miners strike 1984

Supporting Miners strike 1984
Speakers in support of the Mineworkers strike of 1984, in front of a banner of the Cortonwood branch of the National Union of Mineworkers

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Miners ballot October 1982

Miners ballot October 1982
A group of Yorkshire miners support the motion to strike over pay and pit closures in October 1982. They were in the minority as 61% of miners nationally voted against. and strike action was avoided

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: Doncaster Miners Gala 1986

Doncaster Miners Gala 1986
Part of the parade at the 99th Doncaster Miners Gala, organised by the Yorkshire branch of the National Union of Mineworkers. The Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group march with their banner

Background imageImages Dated 1st August 2015: N. U. M. leaders 1984

N. U. M. leaders 1984
National Union of Mineworkers leaders confer during the T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) conference in Brighton. From left, Peter Heathfield (general secretary); Mick McGahey (vice president)



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