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Description: "Photograph of train on Great Western Railway leaving Paddington Station, May 20th 1892 at 10.15 am, being the last Broad Gauge Penzance Train"
Date: May 20th 1892
Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/419/912
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Description: "Rugby School, Senior Boy's Room in Sherriffs"
Date: 1926-42
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 9/448
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Description: Aerial photograph of bombing raid over Wangerooge in the North Sea.
Date: World War Two
Our Catalogue Reference: AIR 14/3647
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Location: Hong Kong
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/555.
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Description: 'Photograph of the Wreck of the Steam Ship 'Escurial' at Portreath Cornwall. Title given to the picture 'At Humanity's Call'. Photograph taken by John Charles Burrow (1852-1914) of Camborne, Cornwall.
Date: 1895
Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/421/984
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Description: Anzac position on Ocean Beach
Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Date: 1915
Our catalogue reference: WO 317/4
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Description: The Sydney Harbour Bridge - A Water-colour by John Allcot. In Commemoration of the Opening Celebrations, March, 1932.
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date: 23 March 1932
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/607.
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Description: Barbados. 'Children of mixed races watching the aircraft at Seawell Airport, Barbados'. Photograph No R 6016 Official Barbados photograph compiled by Central Office of Information.
Location: Barbados
Date: 1962 Oct
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 10/49/1
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Beatrice & Sidney Webb working toggther at a table. Published in Beatrice Webb's second volume of autobiography 'Our Partnership' (1948).
Martha Beatrice Webb (1858-1943); nee Potter, social reformer.
Sidney James Webb (1859-1947); Baron Passfield; politician
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Description: Still from VHS footage of UFO sent to Ministry of Defence.
Date: 27th December 2000
Our Catalogue Reference: DEFE 24/2021 p.318
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Description: Heavily loaded Great Western Railway motor wagon
Date: c.1905
Our Catalogue Reference: RAIL 254/32
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Description: Communist front inspired riots, Singapore
Location: Singapore, Malaya
Date: 26-Oct-56
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/567.
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Description: Ladies ticket to the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, then in Hyde Park. The Exhibition opened on May Day 1851.
Date: 1851
Our Catalogue Reference: BT 342/2 f.6
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Description: Dunlap print of the Declaration of Independence
This copy of the Declaration of Independence was found by an American antiquarian bookseller carrying out research at The National Archives in 2008. The poster-sized document was hidden among correspondence from American colonists that had been intercepted by the British in the 18th century. The discovery of the Dunlap print of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4 1776, brings the total of known surviving copies worldwide to 26.
The Dunlap prints were the first official printings of the Declaration of Independence and were named after John Dunlap, the printer whose name is given at the bottom of each copy. It is likely that only around 200 of these copies were ever printed.
The United States Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
The prints made by John Dunlap were delivered to the founders early on the morning of July 5 1776. One copy was officially entered into the Congressional Journal and the additional copies were distributed, some by horseback, throughout the colonies to be read aloud to colonists and the militia.
The last discovery of a Dunlap declaration was at a flea market in 1989, and it sold at auction in 2000 for $8.14 million.
Date: Printed 4th July 1776
Our Catalogue Reference: EXT 9/93
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Composite image of Typhoon Sanvu approaching Japan and tropical depression Mawar over Taiwan, at 06:00 UTC on Friday, 1 September 2017.
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Description: Sheet 1 GSGS 2285
Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Date: 1908
Our catalogue reference: WO 301/282
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Description: Great Western locomotive "Rob Roy" derailed.
Date: 1868
Our Catalogue Reference: RAIL 1005/132
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Composite image showing tropical cyclones Eunice (left) and Diamondra (right) in the Indian Ocean.
Diamondra, which formed on 26 January, is largely spent and projected to die out, whilst Eunice (named today) will likely intensify over the coming days. Both storms are south of the nearest inhabited islands (British Indian Ocean Territory) and neither are expected to have a high humanitarian impact at this time.
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Image of tropical cyclone Chapala in the Gulf of Aden, captured by the AVHRR instrument onboard EUMETSAT's Metop-A polar-orbiting satellite on Monday 2 November 2015, 06:55 (UTC).
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Description: Illustration from the Liber Memoranda Camerarii, a book cataloguing the delivery of deeds of title, jewels, and other items received into or delivered out of the Treasury of the Exchequer.
The illustration is based on the images drawn or painted on the chests and boxes in which the objects and documents were placed. Matching the two would allow items listed to be found easily.
Date: Between 1365 and 1545
Our Document Reference: E 36/273
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Description: Type Hairdressing, Gold Coast.
Location: Gold Coast
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/34
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Description: Sketch of a flag taken from rebels against slavery in Barbados, after the uprising known as Bussa's Rebellion.
The flag appears to stress the rebels' loyalty to Britain and to the Crown while conveying their earnest desire for liberty. British forces on Barbados suppressed the revolt and hundreds of the rebels were killed.
Learn more about Bussa's Rebellion on The National Archives website.
Date: April 1816
Our Catalogue Reference: MFQ 1/112
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Description: This is one of several rolls of payments by the executors of the late queen Eleanor. It records the payments made for the crosses that King Edward I had erected commemorating his dead wife, Eleanor of Castille (they mark the nightly resting places along the route taken when her body was transported to London). These places include Charing Cross and Waltham Cross.
For more information see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_cross
Date: 1292
Our Catalogue Reference: E 101/353/1
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Description: Nagasaki, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Date: September-October 1945
Our catalogue reference: ADM 1/19302 (8)
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Composite image of category 3 Typhoon Songda from 06:00 UTC on Wednesday, 12 October 2016.
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Description: HMS Speaker in Nagasaki harbour, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Date: September-October 1945
Our catalogue reference: ADM 1/19302 (9)
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Composite image from 09:00 UTC today (28 July 2015) shows tropical depression 08E (Eight-E-15) in the eastern Pacific ocean, around 900nm West of Socorro Island.
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Location: Hong Kong
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/555.
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Description: This telegram from Gerhart Riegner, Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, was received by the Foreign Office in August 1940. The telegram was among the first pieces of unambiguous evidence received by the Allies that the Nazi Government planned a 'final solution' to the "Jewish question".
Some comments within the file show officials suggested the telegram be used to influence the Vatican to condemn German atrocities more strenuously. Another civil servant dismisses Riegner's report as a "rather wild story".
Samuel Sydney Silverman, the telegram's intended recipient, was the Labour MP for the Lancashire constituency of Nelson and Colne. Silverman was a campaigner for Jewish rights, amongst other causes including opposition to capital punishment.
Date: August 10th 1942
Our Catalogue Reference: FO 371/30917
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Description: Entering Sydney, HMS Speaker's evacuation of prisoners of war from Japan
Location: Sydney, Australia
Date: September-October 1945
Our catalogue reference: ADM 1/19302 (22)
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Description: Now generally known as The Colonnades, this basalt rock formation is on Phillip Island, Victoria, close to the city of Melbourne and formed part of the "British Empire Collection" held by the UK Ministry of Information.
Date: c.1950
Our Document Reference: INF 10/29/8
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Description: The Eastern Sketch, An Illustrated Weekly. Contains news articles, advertisements and drawings of various kinds.
Date: 27 July 1905
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/434.
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Description: Victorian illustrations depicting the early history of the railways in England.
Date: 1893
Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/108/311
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Description: Edward VIII's signed instrument of abdication, giving up all claim to the throne for himself and his descendants. The document is signed by Edward and by three of his brothers, including Prince Albert who was to succeed him as George VI.
Date: 10th December 1936
Our Document Reference: PC 11/1
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Composite image of Hurricane Sandra from 15:00 UTC on Wednesday, 25 November 2015.
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Iceland was the first country to feel the effects of a North Atlantic storm that intensified rapidly on Tuesday 9 December.
The storm built up wave heights to around 18m over open water. Weather warnings have also been issued in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Norway as the storm progresses eastwards.
Composite image of infrared data from the geostationary satellites of EUMETSAT and NOAA, generated at 12:00 UTC on Tuesday 9 December 2014. Infrared data overlays a computer-generated model of the Earth, containing NASA's Blue Marble Next Generation imagery.
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Composite image of Hurricane Joaquin, crossing the Caribbean at 06:00 UTC on Wednesday, 30 September 2015.
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Description: Inside front cover of the medical and surgical journal of His Majesty's Steam Ship Albert by J O McWilliam, MD, Surgeon. The Albert explored the course of the Niger River from 1841.
"'One of the sons of Onnese Obi Osai chief of Aboh, River Niger', drawn by John Duncan. The illustration appears to have been cut from a published source and pasted inside the journal. Beneath it is a written note 'Ali Hare came on board accompanied by a dozen little boys, who seemed to be nearly coeval [the same age]. These were sons of the Obi."
Date: 1840-2
Our Catalogue Reference: ADM 101/82/2/1
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Composite image of Tropical Storm Ida in the Atlantic, from 06:00 UTC on Monday, 21 September 2015.
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Description: Modern reproduction of the reverse of Edward III's fifth seal used in the first half of the 1340s.
Our Catalogue Reference: Not accessioned
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Composite image of European #StormBarney from 06:00 UTC on Tuesday, 17 November 2015.
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This image of southern Spain, Portugal and North Africa was taken by Sentinel-3A’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on 7 November 2016.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016.
Description: Detail of illuminated manuscript page from documents relating to Furness Abbey in Cumbria.
Date: 1412
Our Catalogue Reference: DL 42/3
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Description: The bombing of the town of Guernica in April 1937 became one of the most infamous events of the Spanish Civil War. Produced by the Republican Government, this poster serves as a reminder of the attack.
Date: 1937
Our Catalogue Reference: WO 106/1590
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Description: View of the Island St. Helena.
Location: St Helena
Date: 1834
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/757
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Description: Letter from Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath's Private Secretary Robert Armstrong to the Department of Education, then headed by Margaret Thatcher.
Thatcher and Heath never got on and it is notable that this communication (in which Armstrong refers to the 1968 Paris Riots) is between their respective civil servants and not in any way personal.
The file also contains an example of left wing material intended for London schools.
Date: 16th May 1972
Our Catalogue Reference: PREM 15/1198
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Description: Sunset over a calm sea. A typical scene looking out from one of Seychelles many beautiful beaches.
Location: Seychelles
Date: 1967-1968
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/774
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Description: Charter establishing Holy Trinity Priory (known as the Christchurch) in Aldgate in London as a religious house. The priory was founded by Queen Matilda, the wife of King Henry I and her personal confessor became the first Prior. The seal is the great seal of King Henry I.
Date: c.1108
Our Catalogue Reference: E 40/6687
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Composite image of tropical storm Kujira, from 06:00 UTC on Tuesday, 23 June 2015. Infrared data overlays a computer-generated model of the Earth, containing NASA's Blue Marble Next Generation imagery.
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Catalogue reference: MEPO31/21 (1 of 2)
This copy of the Black People’s News Service from 1970, entitled ‘Black Panther Movement, what we stand for?’, connects the case of Mangrove Nine to the wider struggle of black people in Britain in areas such as education and housing. This paper was seized from one of the Mangrove Nine’s houses, the home of Rhodan Gorden, during his arrest by the police.
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