In 1938 Guinness married Merula Silvia Salaman whom he had met in 1935. She had studied at the Slade School of Art and had exhibited alongside Picasso and Braque, among others. She later became an ...

Here photographed on the 25th anniversary of Bader's release from Colditz Castle. Four aircraft are hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. The planes were landed in Cairo, Jordan and London and the ...

Painter, writer, photographer and political activist Caroline Coon founded the Civil rights organisation Release in the 1960s and in the 1970s documented emergence of anti-Hippie punk scene including ...

Campbell was initially apprenticed to an Edinburgh marble cutter. In 1816, his marble busts caught the attention of Gilbert Innes of Stow, who became his patron. Innes's financial support enabled ...

Harold reigned following the death of his brother-in- law Edward 'the confessor'. He was defeated at the battle of Hastings in 1066 which marked the end of Anglo-saxon rule.

Lieutenant-General. Commander during the early stages of the Peninsular War, 1808, he was cut off from Portugal by the French and obliged to make a forced march to the coast at Corunna to embark his ...

Johnston was closely involved in what has been called the 'scramble for Africa' by 19th-century colonial powers. He published forty books on African subjects and in the 1890s was the first British ...

Alongside the Presdient Paul Kruger, Piet Joubert was a leader of Boer resistance against the British during the war. Kruger would be elected President of the Transvaal Republic in 1883, and go on to ...

Ulla Ditlef (née Nielsen), Lady Hyde Parker (died 1998), Wife of Sir William Stephen Hyde Parker; daughter of Christian Ditlef Nielsen. Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Born in Ankara to a British diplomat, Joe Strummer (real name: John Graham Mellor) spent parts of his early childhood in Cairo, Mexico City and Bonn before boarding at a school in Surrey. He attended ...

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