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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Misc: Photographs of VE Day and the General Election, May-July 1945


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 88

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: Misc: Photographs of VE Day and the General Election, May-July 1945

Date(s): May-July 1945

Level of description: collection level

Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs of London, 8 May 1945, including views of celebrating crowds in various sites including Parliament Green and Trafalgar Square; war savings hoardings covering the site of the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus, and the base of Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square; and people queuing to enter an exhibition showing a V2 rocket. Also photographs of Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill saluting crowds from an open car and of election posters, June-July 1945.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archives and Information Management.

Physical characteristics:

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Summary guide entry on-line.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Centre by Andrew Mussell, former Assistant Archivist at LHCMA, May 2007

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Festivals | Cultural events | Leisure time activities | Leisure
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe