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• War Weapons Week in a Country Town

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

• Farrar, Peter Nelson (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1985-05-21

  British NCO served with 1st Bn Royal Fusiliers in Korea, 1952-1953

• CAMPAIGN IN NORTH AFRICA 1940 - 1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  A posed photograph of British troops making a bayonet charge past a dead German soldier, 6 June 1942.

• CAMPAIGN IN NORTH AFRICA 1940 - 1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Chetwyn Len (Sgt)

  'Australians storm a strongpoint'. A posed portrait of Australian troops advancing during the Second Battle of El Alamein, 3 September 1942.

• THE CAMPAIGN IN EAST AFRICA 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Clements (Lt)

  British troops use a bulldozer to pull down a fascist stone monument at Kismayu in Italian Somaliland, 11 April 1941.

• Parker, Joseph Donald (IWM interview)

  (sound) Made by: IWM (Production company) 1988-05-20

  British civilian on radio work with Post Office in GB during 1930s. Served with British as OCTU instructor in GB 1939 and as signals officer with SOE in Egypt, Palestine and Persia (Iran) 1941-1943, propaganda broadcasts to Balkans 1942

• THE ROYAL NAVY 1976 - 2000

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE POST 1945 COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  A road sign declaring the City of Southampton a nuclear free zone, 1984. On 6 August 1984, the City of Southampton was declared a nuclear free zone by its local council in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent nuclear-powered warships and submarines of the...

• "VICTORY V" DISHES AT A LONDON INN: EATING OUT IN WARTIME LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, c 1942

  part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

  A waitress at the the 'Quality Inn' on Regent Street collects a 'Victory Dish' from the serving ledge as cooks work behind her. Two posters explaining these meals can be seen on the ledge. According to the original caption: "'Victory V' dishes [are]...

• THE PRODUCTION OF TANKS FOR RUSSIA, SMETHWICK, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Russian Ambassador Ivan Maisky addresses workers at a tank factory in Smethwick, during 'Tanks for Russia' week. A Valentine tank which has been produced at the factory can be seen behind him.

• THE PRODUCTION OF TANKS FOR RUSSIA, SMETHWICK, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Factory workers ride on Valentine tanks as they leave a factory in Smethwick. A notice propped on the front of the tanks reads "All Help for Russia Now". The workers are holding a Union flag and a Russian flag and many have their fists raised in a...