Monthly Archives: May 2015
Ancient British Jewelry

‘This image may be reproduced free of charge if used in editorials that promote or review the Museum of London exhibition ‘The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels’ which runs from 11 October 2013 until 27 April 2014. All images must be credited. All other uses must be cleared with the Museum of London.’

‘This image may be reproduced free of charge if used in editorials that promote or review the Museum of London exhibition ‘The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels’ which runs from 11 October 2013 until 27 April 2014. All images must be credited. All other uses must be cleared with the Museum of London.’
Ancient books
London residents perusing a book shop, keeping a stiff upper lip, amidst the destruction of the city by Nazi bombers
To hell with Hitler
V-E Day newspaper headlines, 70 years ago today
May 8, 1945
I know I posted this picture before but it is, for me, the most poignant photo of the end of WWII in Europe. The picture shows a trainload of Jews and others being sent to a concentration camp for extermination being stopped in the middle of nowhere and released once the news of the war had ended. The looks on their faces at their sudden change in fate says it all.












