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National Archives publishes vintage wartime propaganda online

Winston Churchill with a jowl or two flatteringly removed, a fierce group of women in pinnies marching out under the banner “Up housewives and at ‘em!” to recycle their domestic waste into “planes, guns, tanks, ships & ammunition”, and a startling image of the assassination in 1942 of a Nazi…

Restored Magna Carta to go on display in Washington

WASHINGTON — A copy of the Magna Carta, the English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, is to be displayed at the US National Archives in Washington from February 17, after a year of restoration work. The Magna Carta enshrined the rule of law in England at a…