Back to the Archive Awareness Campaign homepage

Gallery

Archive Awareness Campaign theme images and others

© Eastside Community Heritage 2008 www.hidden-stories.org.uk

Coloured Men's Institute in 1926. Image taken from Kamal Chuchie project which charted the history of the black and Asian community in Canning Town.

Charles Johnstone (actually Johnson). © Tyne & Wear Archive Service 2008 www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk

Charles Johnstone (Black Charlie), born in Mobile, Alabama, USA was a sailor from a young age. In the course of his travels, he married an Irish woman, Magaret and fathered three daughters.

Mary Wheatland. Crown Copyright The National Archives 2008 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Mary Wheatland, the Bognor bathing woman 1903. She taught children to swim and saved many lives for which she received medals and recognition from the Royal Humane Society.

Majorie Edmunds/ Llanelli, South Wales. Image supplied by Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales 2008 www.womensarchivewales.org

Majorie Edmunds, Llanelli, South Wales. Women's Auxiliary Air Force engineer, on the nose of an aircraft she'd just served at Dunsfold airfield during WWII.

Dr Allan Glais(y)er Minns Crown Copyright Norfolk Record Office 2008 www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk

Dr Allan Glais(y)er Minns, Mayor of Thetford, Norfolk 1904-5-6. We believe he may have been the first black mayor in the UK.

Tyne & Wear Archives Service 2008 www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk

Two black seamen photographed by Roland Park during the Clive Street Slum Clearances in the 1930s.

© Tyne & Wear Archives Service 2008 www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk

Grandparents on the Moon C.1921. North East's Irish Community. Godfrey Duffy's grandfather Jimmy Hughes and grandmother Bella Smith married in a Catholic church in 1921.

Crown Copyright Greater Manchester County Record Office 2008 www.bury.gov.uk

Patient 11957 Annie Oliver, aged 23. Diagonosed with perpetual melancholia. From the archive of Prestwich Asylum 1900.

© Royal Mail Group Ltd 2009. Courtesy of The British Postal Museum & Archive.

Clear and correct circulation details save time. Hans Arnold Rothholz 1950.

Wings for Victory Courtesy of Wigan Archives Service WLCT 2009 www.wlct.org/Culture/Heritage/archives.htm

Wings for Victory, Wigan 1943. Towns and villages were given a target to aim for and encouraged that their contributions would directly increase the production of planes and benefit the war effort.

Evacuees to Brigg, North Lincolnshire © Marist College. Courtesy of East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies 2009

Marist College in Hull evacuated its pupils to Brigg, North Lincolnshire, on September 1st 1939.

© Marist College. Courtesy of East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies 2009 www.eastriding.gov.uk

Marist College in Hull evacuated its pupils to Brigg, North Lincolnshire, on September 1st 1939. Schoolboys wearing their gas masks.

Alcock & Brown in Sunbeam sports car 1919. © MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) 2009 www.mosi.org.uk

In June 1919, Captain Jack Alcock and his navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made history by becoming the first people to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.

© Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain & Ireland Ltd 2009. Reproduced for Tunbridge Wells Library www.kent.gov.uk/libs

Pauline Gower

For further information on the Basque Children of '37 Association UK, visit www.basquechildren.org

Basque Refugee Children at the North Stoneham Camp in Eastleigh, Southampton, where they were first billeted in May 1937 after being evacuated from the Basque Country.

Pauline Gower

Pauline Gower was one of three women awarded the B aviation licence by the Air Ministry and was instrumental in setting up the women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary during WWII. Her dog, Wendy, often accompanied her on flights.

Field party at river crossing Gold Coast in the Gulf of Guinea now Ghana. © NERC 2009 British Geological Survey www.bgs.ac.uk

Field party at river crossing, Gold Coast, 1923.

Roy Chadwick born in Farnworth, Lancashire. © MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) 2009 www.mosi.org.uk

Roy Chadwick born in Farnworth, Lancashire, 1893. He designed the fuselage and undercarriage for the famous Avro 504 which became the standard training aircraft used by the Royal Air Force.

Aerial shot of Bamburgh Castle and village. © Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums 2009 www.twmuseums.org.uk

Aerial shot of Bamburgh Castle and village, June 1973.

© East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies 2009 www.eastriding.gov.uk/community-and-living/records-and-archives

The Blackburn Beverley was a military transport plane used by the RAF in the 1950s and 60s. Blackburn Beverley flying over Beverley town - Beverley Minster is clearly visible below.

Courtesy of The Womens Library 2009 www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary

Join the Fight designed by Robyn Slovo and Leslie Ruda. Reproduced as part of The Women's Library exhibition Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970s Britain.

Courtesy of The Womens Library 2009 www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary

Poster produced by See Red Women's Workshop c1978. Reproduced as part of The Women's Library exhibition Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970s Britain.

© Royal Mail Group Ltd 2009 Courtesy of The British Postal Museum & Archive.

Sketch diagram of rocket 1934-36

Early Flight. Courtesy of The National Archives 2009 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Glider invented by Sir Hiram Maxim and Lt.Dunne 1915. Ref: AIR 1/2450.

Charles Burgess 1871 ©East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies 2010 www.eastriding.gov.uk

Charles Burgess 1871

Mary Coultish 1871 © East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies 2010 www.eastriding.gov.uk

Mary Coultish 1871

Erasmus Darwin © Derbyshire Record Office

Erasmus Darwin FRS: Physician, Natural Philosopher, Poet and Botanist

© 2010 Archive Awareness Campaign | Site by CBJ Digital Ltd.