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• 'Let Us Go Forward Together'

  (posters) Made by: Keely, Pat (artist) 1943

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters, with two smaller images located in the lower quarter. The title is partially integrated and placed in the lower quarter, in black. The text is separate and placed along the bottom edge, in brown...

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  The Armed Forces: The performers of a comic musical quartet which was one of the acts participating in the Far East naval review 'Tokio Express'. The quartet, 'Momentes Musicales', consists of Leading Seaman Cliff Clayton, cello; Sub Lieutenant Norman...

• A Mite for Right

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters, held within a circular inset. A smaller image is placed in the upper right. The title is separate and located in the upper quarter, in white cursive script. The text is partially integrated and...

• shoes, slippers, child's, handmade

  (souvenirs and ephemera) 1946

  A pair of child's slippers, handmade from rope (in red and beige with red pom-poms) by an unidentified German prisoner of war (POW) at Mortimer Camp near Reading, Berkshire (Camp No 88), circa 1946.

• An AA Site (Rockets)

  (art) Made by: Casson, Bernard

  image: a view through a corrugated iron arch, looking out on an anti-aircraft battery at night. In the centre of the site two men stand on the roof of a hut next to an aerial, keeping watch. They are surrounded by anti aircraft guns pointing up at the...

• "Can Spring Be Far Behind?", 1940

  (art) Made by: ARMSTRONG, JOHN 1940

  image: a surreal landscape. In the foreground are the ruins of bombed buildings. Behind these, in a complete contrast of scale, a white tulip towers, growing from an arid soil.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL AS PRIME MINISTER 1940-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  Winston Churchill at his seat in the Cabinet Room at No 10 Downing Street, London.

• REHABILITATION OF BRITISH SOLDIERS FROM NORMANDY: THE WORK OF THE ROBERT JONES AND DAME AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, OSWESTRY, SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Writing a letter home is Seaman Gunner C J Purser (known to his intimates as "Popeye"). He was wounded off Cherbourg when minesweeping. His hometown is Cleethorpes, Lincs.

• CECIL BEATON PHOTOGRAPHS: GENERAL

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beaton, Cecil

  The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.

• THE ANGLO-SOVIET TREATY, MAY 1942

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Winston Churchill with British and Soviet representatives, including Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov, in London following the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty on 26 May 1942.