Newly-arrived troops of the 2nd BEF move up to the front, June 1940.
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Men of the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, part of the 1st Infantry Division, pose with a captured German swastika flag in Littoria, Italy, 25 May 1944.
They are, from left to right: Corporal H. Seddon, Trooper R. Carslake and Trooper J. Callaghan.
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Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, 3 April 1940.
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#onthisday 11 April 1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
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A mounted cavalry draft of the 1st Life Guards with Captain Gerrard Leigh in the foreground. August 1914.
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Have you ever visited the Churchill Archives Centre? It houses some extraordinary collections and if you are unable to visit in-person much of their archive content can be accessed online at archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/online-resourc…. #TravelsWithToye #Cambridge #Churchill #BritishHistory
Pictured: Wharton's Yard, Sandside, #Scarborough , 1895.
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Can you imagine keeping your teabags in something like this? We've got a fair few drinking vessels in the collection, but tea caddies are more of a rarity.
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A photo taken near Hooge of the first attack on Bellewaarde Farm by the Liverpool Scottish, 6 am, 16 June 1915.
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#onthisday 10 April 1717 – Robert Walpole resigns from the British government, commencing the Whig Split which lasts until 1720.
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#onthisday 15 April 1912 - Jack Phillips died (b. 1887)
Jack Phillips (born John George Phillips) was a British sailor & the senior wireless operator aboard the Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage in April 1912.
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Pictured: Ropewalks, #Liverpool , 1968.
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Today marks the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. This historic document brought thirty years of violence in Northern Ireland and the wider region, known as the Troubles, to an official end.
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Remembering Private George Jocelyn Bloomfield 🇬🇧
1/6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Death: k.i.a in France, 10 April 1918.
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#onthisday 9 April 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.
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#onthisday 10 April 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
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Lord Nelson’ class No. 851 'Sir Francis Drake', steam locomotive under the wheel drop at Stewarts Lane, Battersea. c. 1928.
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Pictured: St Nicholas Church, Radford, #Coventry .
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