The British behemoth brought down by vanity. Previously-unseen images of Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic expedition revealed. Ernest Shackleton and his crew struggled to survive for months against the odds in the big freeze of the Antarctic The ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the ice and was eventually crushed before sinking into the Weddell SeaThe 28-man crew was left stranded in makeshift camps on the ice, battered by punishing and extreme conditionsHaunting images reveal astonishing insight into the men's fight for their lives in the 'world's last great wilderness' By Imogen Calderwood For Mailonline Published: 02:03 GMT, 21 November 2015 | Updated: 06:49 GMT, 21 November 2015 Haunting photographs of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew's struggle to survive against the odds in the big freeze of the Antarctic are set to go on display.
The stunning images will be part of an exhibition at London's Royal Geographical Society to open tomorrow, 100 years to the day since the crew's ship Endurance was crushed before sinking beneath the ice. Scroll down for video. Open-topped buses, flat claps and bobbies on the beat: Colour video of 1920s London captures the capital in all its pre-war glory. By Anna Edwards Published: 00:20 GMT, 11 May 2013 | Updated: 10:00 GMT, 11 May 2013 In 1952 London was shrouded in the Great Smog and nowadays most people know it as a frenetic and bustling city.
But a beautiful film has captured a more genteel side to the capital - and painted it in soft colours making it look practically quaint. A film, shot in 1927, shows the other side to London - complete with quiet streets, police guiding traffic and tradesman standing on the back of carts as they trundle along the roads. Rare photographs of 1920s life in one of Britain's most important industrial firms to go on show for the first time after sitting untouched in boxes in local library. Thatcher's achievements will long outlive the spite of Sheffield's sons and daughters. “When Thatcher dies they’ll have to build a dance floor over her grave for all the people who want to dance on it.”
When I was told this in a pub some years ago it wasn’t the sentiment that struck me but that fact that the unimaginative fellow speaking might have thought it was the first time anyone within earshot had heard that rib tickler. I was born in Sheffield in 1980 and through family and support of an underachieving football club I retain ties to the place and its people. I have heard Sheffielders, some quite reasonable folk, say that they wish the Brighton bomb attack had succeeded; I have heard them joke frequently about Thatcher’s dementia. One told me that if there was a God he would believe in him if Margaret Thatcher died.
But, if there is a God, shouldn’t he believe in him anyway? You won’t find logic where none exists. That’s why people in places like Sheffield will be celebrating Margaret Thatcher’s death. For starters, feel the parochialism. This target was never met. Great Train Robber solves 49-year-old mystery with deathbed confession he injured engine driver in 1963 attack. Decade of decadence: How little time has changed the debaucherous ways we cope with financial meltdown. By Annabel Venning Published: 00:58 GMT, 28 August 2012 | Updated: 13:14 GMT, 28 August 2012 'To feed and dance, always to be moving, that is the thing.
We daren’t risk more than an hour or two in sleep, in case something happens while we aren’t there.’ Lost London revealed in sepia glory of British Film Institute archive footage. By Daily Mail Reporter.
Bittersweet life of the Sugar Girls... in their own pictures: How a book about Tate & Lyle's East End factory prompted workers to dig out their albums. By Bill Mouland Published: 22:48 GMT, 8 August 2012 | Updated: 22:48 GMT, 8 August 2012 The idea was to write a nostalgic account of the women who helped the oldest brand in Britain survive the Blitz and post-war rationing.
Packed with tales of factory life, love affairs, charabanc outings and sometimes oppressive bosses, it is told through the words of the women who helped produce 14,000 tons of sugar a week, plus thousands of iconic tins of golden syrup, at the Tate & Lyle factory in East London. Since its publication in March, however, The Sugar Girls: Tales Of Hardship, Love And Happiness In Tate & Lyle’s East End, by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, is an internet hit at the website thesugargirls.com. As a result, former factory workers — many now in their 80s — have added more reminiscences, anecdotes and, above all, photographs like the ones that appear on these pages.
How about Ain't She Sweet? BBC - WW2 People's War - That First Battle. ‘That first Battle’ - by Alastair ‘Jock’ Troup It was a week before the Regiment fought its first battle.
On June 26th 1944 'C' Squadron commanded by Major D.G. Bevan went into action at La Taille North of Unchy. Britain from Above. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee: 60 years in 60 photographs. When Britain really DID keep calm and carry on: Fed up with the way people whinge at every little set-back? A cache of lost propaganda films magically evokes a very different era. By Philip Norman Published: 00:04 GMT, 24 May 2012 | Updated: 12:03 GMT, 24 May 2012 We mythologise World War II perhaps more than any other conflict in our history.
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