Bomb Gallery

Labour Party election posters and television speakers

Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labour's series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won). Poster slogans include Stop H-Bomb Poison Now, and Smash the Tory Swindle. Speakers include leader Hugh Gaitskell, treasurer Aneurin Bevan, Barbara Castle and Harold Wilson

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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin, Germany

The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtniskirche) on the Kurfurstendamm in Berlin, Germany. It was badly damaged in a bombing raid in 1943. The present building, consisting of a church with an attached foyer and a separate belfry with an attached chapel, was built between 1959 and 1963. The damaged spire of the old church has been retained and the ground floor has been turned into a memorial hall

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1957 nuclear test: Fall-out

Fallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News artist G.H Davis, with the cooperation of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, showing the dangers of nuclear fall-out. Britain's first nuclear tests in May 1957 prompted fears about the long term effects of the explosions on human life. Possible dangers listed here include radio-active dust and particles in rain, and the contamination of fish stocks

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