Images Dated 27th March 2014

Minoans Traders: wall painting from Acrotiri in Thera (Santorini) showing Minoan ships

Minoans Traders: wall painting from Acrotiri in Thera (Santorini) showing Minoan ships. Bronze Age (3200-1050 BC). The exchange of products with distant countries was served by the well-organized shipping and the foundation of commercial stations in significant ports in the Mediterranean

© Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group

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Pistol, Welrod

Welrod Silenced pistol . 32, mk 2, serial no. 3247, 1944 (c). This pistol was probably used by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War Two. The receiver markings of a square and a star indicate it was made at B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms Company) It has a five round magazine. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). The Welrod pistol derives its name from where some were produced; the Special Operations Executive Research Centre in Welwyn, Hertfordshire. The pistol is unique in that in its final stages, the designers realised that it was senseless to make a pistol then manufacture a silencer for it - rather, they designed a silencer first and then made the pistol mechanisms. Date: circa 1944

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

Decaying fishing boat on Holy Island at dawn, with Lindisfarne Castle beyond, Northumberland

Decaying fishing boat on Holy Island at dawn, with Lindisfarne Castle beyond, Northumberland, England. Spring (March)

© Adam Burton/AWL Images

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