So it goes

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‘The LSE First Team was one of the stronger teams in the University of London league.’, 1985-6.

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Herbert List, London - 1936

Found: the earliest surviving formal portrait of the celebrated man/woman/spy Chevalier d’Eon whose first 49 years of life were spent as a man, and last 33 as a woman. Indeed, Chevalier’s gender was so much in question that it took a medical inquest upon death to discover it.

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Private Stimpson, a veteran of the “Kilties”, on parade in London, wearing a Chinese campaign medal from 1860, 22nd April 1918.

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Children in a street in South London sorting shrapnel, anti-aircraft shell fragments, which they have collected as their contribution to the national war effort, 1 September 1940.

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Ruins of the Holland House Library in London, October 22, 1940, right after The Blitz.

A tiny Rytecraft van, Britain’s smallest, travelling along Deansgate in Manchester. The vehicle is powered by a 2 1/2 hp engine, travels 80 miles on a gallon of petrol, carries nearly 600 pounds and has a top speed of 50 mph, 17th February 1937.

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Policemen arresting a demonstrator when fascists and communists clashed during a march led by British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley in London’s East End, 4th October 1936.

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A metropolitan policeman directing traffic at Wellington Street, The Strand, in central London, 13th March 1926.

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A policeman watches helplessly as the traffic backs up at St. Giles Circus in London, September 1954.

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A large milk lorry which crashed into railings in Belgrave Square, London. 1926.

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A fireman at the top of a new 100-foot (30,48 m) turntable ladder, which has just been delivered to the London Fire Brigade, 26th February 1937.

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The debris of St Thomas’s Hospital, London, the morning after receiving a direct hit during the Blitz, in front of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, 1940.

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A miserable looking woman selling hot chestnuts in a Soho street, 1935.

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