The National Archives UK

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Who are we? We are The National Archives, the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. We are also at the heart of government information policy, to ensure the survival of today´s information for the future.

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Back to the wall - Churchill John Bull figure, Commonwealth troops clambering over wall Artist Leslie Illingworth

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  • ralph repo said:
    Nice! I noticed too, the preferential visual placement of the white troops with the Indian and African colonials literally marginalized.
  • jamica1 said:
    Which one is the Canadian?
  • Wing Lam said:
    John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged, country-dwelling, jolly and matter-of-fact man. He originated in satirical works of the early 18th century and would come to stand for English liberty in opposition to revolutionaries. He was popular through the 18th and 19th centuries until the time of the First World War, when he generally stopped being seen as representative of the "common man".

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull

CO 1069-597-16

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  • lyndc99 said:
    Farm Cove not Fram Cove.
    This is in Sydney Harbour near the Opera House.
  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    Known to the indigenous inhabitants of Sydney as Woccanmagully, Farm Cove was used by them as an initiation ground and for the "Kangaroo and Dog Dance". The land immediately adjacent to Farm Cove was set aside soon after first European settlement in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip for the Government House Domain, a private reserve for the NSW Governor. The first farm for the colony was thereafter established in the area, subsequently lending its name to the cove. After the failure of this first farm, and the transfer of agricultural efforts elsewhere in the colony, Governor Lachlan Macquarie established the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney around Farm Cove in 1816. Farm Cove was used as an anchorage for Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and visiting naval vessels until the 1960s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Cove,_New_South_Wales

Suffragettes 11-18

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  • cuthbert25 said:
    I believe no 12 is Lilian Lenton
  • Roger said:
    Wikimedia and NPG say who is who.
    Crazily the NPG claim copyright on this image - very silly.
    Well done National Archives
  • Roger said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Lenton
    great article`
  • Wing Lam said:
    Feminists in the old days so classy

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