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Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives 2011 www.nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk

Photograph of Ching Hook in fighting attitude, 1888. One of three photographs of boxers registered in April 1888 by East End photographer Harry Carpenter (1860-1906).

Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives 2011 www.nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk

British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, photographed by Henry John Kempsell in 1901. Coleridge-Taylor was born in London in 1875 and studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

Reproduced by the kind permission of The Scout Association Trustees 2011 www.scoutsrecords.org www.scouts.org.uk

Scouts recording and listening to messages, August 1951.

Guardian News and Media Archive 2011 www.guardian.co.uk/gnm-archive.

The Guardian News & Media Archive. Lord Leslie Scarman meets residents in Brixton in October 1986 following the riots that had affected the area.

Crown Copyright 2011, National Records of Scotland www.scotlandsimages.com (AAA01130) www.scoarch.org.uk

Chef with a large pile of haggises at Gleneagles Hotel, 1974. Ref: BR/HOT/4/134 British Railways Collection.

Crown Copyright 2011, PRONI www.proni.gov.uk

A young boy working in the textile industry. The image depicts industrial processes in an unidentified mill in Northern Ireland, 1951.

Image produce by courtesy of The National Archives 2011. Ref: COPY 1/430/540

Photograph of 'Types of the Indian Army'. The Pipers, 5th Regiment of Gurkha Rifles (Punjab Frontier Force). Registration stamp, 9 June 1897. Frederick Bremner, Photographer, Quetta, India.

Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives 2011. www.nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk.

Festival of Britain view 1951 by J.D.M Harvey. View more images at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/

Image reproduced with permission from Andrew Lanyon 2011 www.cornwall.gov.uk/cro/.

A photograph of an art class taken circa 1900, in an artist's studio in St Ives.

© Eastside Community Heritage 2011 www.hidden-histories.org.uk

A portrait of Muriel Simpson, circa 1950, daughter of Kamal Chunchie who founded the Coloured Men's Institute in Canning Town.

Crown Copyright The National Archives. Ref: HO45/24778.

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer who earned wide critical acclaim in the late 1940s. Bechet was imprisoned in London from 13-26 September. 1922 after he assulted a woman.

Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives

Soccer. This image is part of the Colonial Office photographic collection held at The National Archives, uploaded as part of the Africa Through a Lens project. Ref:CO 1069/130.

Image reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives.

Young girl smiling. From a collection of photographs produced by the Tanganyika Public Relations department. Late 1950's.

Copyright 2011, Wigan Archives Service & The Turnpike Gallery, WLCT. Ref. D/DZA/175/13

Hoffman's Organophonic Entertainment. Poster advertising a performance at Leigh Town Hall by Hoffman's Organophonic Entertainment or Human Voice Orchestra, 1856.

Crown Copyright, National Records of Scotland, (Ref: AF56/1045 Fishery Files), www.scotlandsimages.com (AAA00358)

Cover of 'The Herring Book' of recepies published as part of the Herring Industry's 'Eat More Herrings' campaign,1935.

Reproduced by the kind permission of The Scout Association Trustees 2011 www.scoutsrecords.org www.scouts.org.uk

Group of Scouts from Jamaica at Gilwell Park, 23 August 1951.

Reproduced by the kind permission of The Scout Association Trustees 2011 www.scoutsrecords.org www.scouts.org.uk

The Pakistan contingent photographed at Gilwell Park. Asghar Hamid is seen with Pervez Hasan on his shoulders, 23 August 1951.

Reproduced by the kind permission of The Scout Association Trustees 2011 www.scoutsrecords.org www.scouts.org.uk

Lord Rowallan, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, is chaired by some of the 650 Scouts who, a few minutes earlier, had seen their Chief arrive at Gilwell Park by helicopter.

Reproduced by the kind permission of The Scout Association Trustees 2011 www.scoutsrecords.org www.scouts.org.uk

Scout from Asia arriving at Southampton and assisted by a British Sea Scout, August 1951

Copyright Eastside Community Heritage

Dr Bala Prasad (1893-1959) was born in India and trained at medical college graduating during World War I. In 1939 he became the first Asian doctor in Barking and Dagenham.

Copyright Cornwall Record Office

Cornwall Record Office's series of exhibitions in November looking at Cornish culture, its arts, festivals, and lifestyle, including the 1951 Festival of Britain.

Copyright Sutton Local Studies & Archives Centre

All Dressed Up and Somewhere To Go exhibition celebrating changing clothing trends in Sutton from early 19th Century to the present day.

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