IPU437459 -17 June 1962
Brazil’s captain, Mauro Ramos, holds aloft the Jules Rimet trophy after his team beat
Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the football world cup final in Santiago, Chile.© TopFoto
Click here for an extraordinary selection of images from June 1962,
scanned for TopFoto’s 50 years ago scanning project. Read more »
Click here to see BBC South East coverage of the world’s most reproduced image, Queen Elizabeth II taken by John Hedgecoe which was has been used on over 3 billion postage stamps.
On the afternoon of May 11, 1812, Spencer Perceval, the all-powerful Prime Minister of Great Britain, was assassinated, shot at close range in the lobby of Parliament.On the 200th anniversary of the killing, author Andro Linklater – in his new book Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die - examines the assassination against the dramatic events of the time.
Britain was in the middle of a war with France and Perceval was ruining the economy with high taxes and a suppression of Liverpool’s lucrative slave trade and Linklater convincingly reveals, for the first time, the outlines of a conspiracy.
Click here for images of Spencer Perceval
and his assassin John Bellingham Read more »
In the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, nanotechnology has been used to engrave the world’s smallest image on a diamond – using a TopFoto image as inspiration.
IPU435444 -12 May 1962
Baluba refugees in the first refugee train out of Elisabethville bound for Kamina, which will allow them to return home to their villages in the Kasai Province, Congo.© TopFoto
Click here for an extraordinary selection of images from May 1962,
scanned for TopFoto’s 50 years ago scanning project. Read more »
” When my brother and I built the first man-carrying flying machine we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible. ”
— Orville Wright, 1917
1284078: World War One – Aviation
A British airman drops a bomb, complete with written messages, on the enemy.
Credit: ©TopFoto
TopFoto – the imagery of nearly everything, has an comprehensive collection
of First World War Aviation images and an edited selection can be found here.
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