Exhibitions and Seasonal

Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring

Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet

Two Battle of Britain fighter pilots, Flight Lieutenant Brian Kingcome (left), commanding officer of No 92 Squadron RAF and his wingman, Flying Officer Geoffrey Wellum, next to a Spitfire at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent, 1941

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Go Through Your Wardrobe - Make-Do and Mend

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Join the ATS

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Cecil Beaton portrait of Winston Churchill at his seat in the Cabinet Room at No 10 Downing Street, London.

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Men of the Long Range Desert Group relax with cigarettes after returning to headquarters at the end of a desert patrol, Siwa, Libya, 1942

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A portrait by Cecil Beaton of the pilot and co-pilot of a Wellington bomber of No. 149 Squadron in 1941.

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The western bell towers of St Paul's Cathedral in London seen through an archway after the heavy incendiary raid of 29 December 1940.

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A British sailor uses a sewing machine to repair a signal flag on board the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA en route to Sierra Leone, 1942

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Make Do and Mend

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A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.

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For A Healthy, Happy Job - Join The Women's Land Army

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A soldier battling his way through a sandstorm in the Western Desert during 1942.

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Why Not Wear Something White Instead?

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Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers

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The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.

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Flying Officer Neville Duke of No 92 (East India) Squadron with his Spitfire at RAF Biggin Hill, 1941. After the war, Neville Duke became one of Britain's leading test pilots and broke the World Air Speed Record in 1953

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Eileen Dunne, aged three, sits in bed with her doll at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, after being injured during an air raid on London in September 1940.

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