Category: Stories

Vintage Years

Do you hear a plane coming? The Type 90 Sound Locator.

Japanese emperor Hirohito inspects the Type 90 sound locator in 1930.
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British allies, sketched and coloured for 40 guineas. By war artist Crimean Simpson.

A colored lithograph depicts troops of native allies of the British, 1800s.
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Vintage Years

Churchill weds Roosevelt: Atlantic Superpower Summit and the creation of the Atlantic Charter, 1941.

Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill attends Sunday Service on board the HMS Prince of Wales, 1941
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Wasn’t it John Duncan Spaeth who said it?

Origin of the phrase the sun never sets on the British empire and its witty rejoinder.
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How the Nana became a freedom fighter.

The Nana Saheb's journey from a minor feudal chieftain to a country's national hero.
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A jumble of myth, history, narrative and nationalism.

The phrase that is the First War of Indian Independence traces its origin to 1907
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