Uploads from The National Archives UK, tagged homeoffice

St. Patrick's Day Ban

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:41:28 -0700

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Telegram from Paddy Maxwell and Eddie McAteer, Nationalist MPs in the Northern Ireland Parliament to British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin protesting a "Stormont ban" on St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Derry.

Date: 1949

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 45/24290

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How girls become "dope fiends"!!

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:55:48 -0800

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Trade advert in The Bioscope to encourage cinema owners to book the film 'Cocaine' directed by Graham Cutts. The Home Office conducted an aggressive campaign to attempt to ensure the film was not widely screened.

Date: May 1922

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 45/11599

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Film poster for Maisie's Marriage (1923)

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:23:41 -0800

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Based (very loosely!) on Marie Stopes' best selling book "Married Love" and starring leading British silent star Lillian Hall-Davis, Maisie's Marriage was subject to an aggressive censorship campaign by the Home Office and British Board of Film Censors.

Date: July 1923

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 45/11382
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The boat that rocked?

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:44:39 -0700

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Home Office photograph of tape cover found in possession of Radio Caroline DJ Phillip Marshall ("alias Mitchell") at Folkestone.

Date: 4th September 1975

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 255/1226

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Rebecca Riots

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:46:02 -0800

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Edward Crompton Lloyd Hall, high sheriff of Cardiganshire, offers advice to "Rebecca and her daughters".

In 1843 Welsh people rioted against expensive turnpike fees to use the roads, destroying tollgates set up to collect the charges. The name "Rebecca" comes from a biblical reference to in Genesis which suggests her descendants will take command of gates. Some of the rioters also wore women's clothing.

Date: 20th June 1843

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 45/454 f.108

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Baedeker Raids - Norwich (April 30th)

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:26:58 -0700

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Telegraph from Ministry of Home Security officials at Cambridge transmitting news that the city of Norwich had again come under Luftwaffe attack.

Date: 30th April 1942

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 199/98

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Baedeker Raids - York (April 29th)

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:26:58 -0700

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Telegraph from Ministry of Home Security officials at Leeds transmitting the first news of the overnight bombing of York by the Luftwaffe.

Date: 29th April 1942

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 199/46

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Baedeker Raids - Norwich (April 28th)

nobody@flickr.com (The National Archives UK) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:26:58 -0700

The National Archives UK posted a photo:

Description: Telegraph from Ministry of Home Security officials at Cambridge transmitting news that the city of Norwich had come under Luftwaffe attack.

Date: 28th April 1942

Our Catalogue Reference: HO 199/98

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