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So lovely – photographer Wilma Hurskainen and her three sisters recreate their childhood photos.
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So lovely – photographer Wilma Hurskainen and her three sisters recreate their childhood photos.

(↬ this isn’t happiness)

amandaonwriting:

Book Lore - Canberra - Australia

Camera: Canon PowerShot A2000 IS
Aperture: f/3.2
Exposure: 1/400th
Focal Length: 36mm

burnedshoes:

© Chris Steele-Perkins, 1978, Falls road, Catholic West Belfast, Northern Ireland

Hijacked vehicle burns tin the background marking the anniversary of the British Policy of internment without trial.

Northern Ireland had been left relatively prosperous by World War Two. War production had favoured its heavy industries, with the boom continuing into the 1950s. But by the 1960s, as elsewhere in Britain, these were in decline. (…)

Violence finally erupted in 1966 following the twin 50th anniversaries of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising - touchstones for Protestant and Catholic communities respectively. (read more)

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todayinhistory:

May 8th 1945: VE DayOn this day in 1945 at the end of the Second World War, combat ended in Europe with the Germans accepting unconditional surrender in Rheims, France. The German surrender marked the end of Hitler’s Third Reich, after the dictator’s suicide on 30th April. Germany’s surrender was led by German President Karl Dönitz, signed on 7th May and ratified on 8th May. The Western world celebrated, with huge festivities in Trafalgar Square and outside Buckingham Palace in London and in New York’s Time Square. British King George VI and Prime Minister Winston Churchill led the celebrations in their country, and US President Harry Truman dedicated the victory to his recently deceased predecessor remarking his only wish was that “Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day”.
“This is your hour. This is your Victory”- Winston Churchill to crowds on VE Day

todayinhistory:

May 8th 1945: VE Day

On this day in 1945 at the end of the Second World War, combat ended in Europe with the Germans accepting unconditional surrender in Rheims, France. The German surrender marked the end of Hitler’s Third Reich, after the dictator’s suicide on 30th April. Germany’s surrender was led by German President Karl Dönitz, signed on 7th May and ratified on 8th May. The Western world celebrated, with huge festivities in Trafalgar Square and outside Buckingham Palace in London and in New York’s Time Square. British King George VI and Prime Minister Winston Churchill led the celebrations in their country, and US President Harry Truman dedicated the victory to his recently deceased predecessor remarking his only wish was that “Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day”.

“This is your hour. This is your Victory”
- Winston Churchill to crowds on VE Day

What organisations did the children belong to?

fyeah-history:

Hitler Youth members, 1933

kampfgruppe:

London, 25th December 1940.

dergrossekrieg:

A poster distributed in Ireland to encourage enlistees for the war effort, circa 1915.

(by Bart King)

burnedshoes:

© Francis Meadow Sutcliffe, ca. 1890, Untitled

“Trouble with a milk cow is she won’t stay milked.” (proverb)

burnedshoes:

© AP Photo, Dec. 24, 1944, Infantryman, Bra / Belgium

An infantryman from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division goes out on a one-man sortie while covered by a comrade in the background, near Bra / Belgium

County Wicklow, Ireland. If you ever needed a reason to find photos of the place your ancestors came from , this is it!

definitelydope:

This Land (by Michelle in Ireland)

Click on the link to Flickr for a map showing where this photo was taken. http://www.flickr.com/photos/finbarro/2389616291