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  • A veiled Muslim lady passes European men at security barriers of an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • Employees walk through barriers of an auditing company 385,000 square foot London headquarters
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  • Media and guests queue for entry at British couture designer Margaret Howell's Autumn fashion show in her design studio and shop
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Three police officers wearing helmets and riot shields brace themselves for further violence as angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, starting fires and overturning cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • English author, Steve Boggan with the $10 note that he shadowed across America, described in his book 'Follow the Money'.
    steve_boggan02-28-01-2015.jpg
  • English author, Steve Boggan with the $10 note that he shadowed across America, described in his book 'Follow the Money'.
    steve_boggan03-28-01-2015.jpg
  • English author, Steve Boggan with the $10 note that he shadowed across America, described in his book 'Follow the Money'.
    steve_boggan01-28-01-2015.jpg
  • Surrounded by books is British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author, Paul Johnson portrait at home. Paul Bede Johnson (born 2 November 1928) is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. While associated with the left in his early career, he is now a conservative popular historian. His sons are the journalist Daniel Johnson, founder of Standpoint, and the businessman Luke Johnson, former chairman of Channel 4..
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  • With a shadowy person in the background, John Gray the political scientist, stands with arms folded and wearing a grey jacket and his round-frame glasses in the Quadrangle of Jesus College, Oxford, amid classical architecture. He is a prominent British political philosopher, author and currently School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Prior to this he was Professor of Politics at Oxford University. He is a former supporter of the New Right and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. Also author of many books on political theory. He has written several influential books on political theory, including Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2003), an attack on humanism, a worldview which he sees as originating in religious ideologies. .
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  • Surrounded by books is British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and author, Paul Johnson on 21st February 1992 in London England. Paul Bede Johnson (b1928) is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. While associated with the left in his early career, he is now a conservative popular historian.
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  • With student graffiti on the classical architecture,  John Gray the political scientist, stands in a doorway wearing a grey jacket and his round-frame glasses in the Quadrangle of Jesus College, Oxford. He is a prominent British political philosopher, author and currently School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Prior to this he was Professor of Politics at Oxford University. He is a former supporter of the New Right and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. Also author of many books on political theory. He has written several influential books on political theory, including Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2003), an attack on humanism, a worldview which he sees as originating in religious ideologies. .....
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  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The condemned housing behind is in Dalston/Hackney whose former residents are also celebrated in a series of portraits before their demolition.
    ian_sinclair9-14-August-2011.jpg
  • A portrait of Indian writer, Patwant Singh in the summer of 1994 while at an address in London, England. Singh (1925 - 2009) was one of India's leading writers on international and cultural affairs and the environment. His articles appeared in The New York Times, Canada's Globe and Mail, the UK's Independent, and elsewhere. He is author of The Sikhs (John Murray, 1999 and Knopf, 2000).
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  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The condemned housing behind is in Dalston/Hackney whose former residents are also celebrated in a series of portraits before their demolition.
    ian_sinclair7-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The condemned housing behind is in Dalston/Hackney whose former residents are also celebrated in a series of portraits before their demolition.
    ian_sinclair6-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The poster is an artist's impression of new London Housing Association company L & Q who are replacing older generation homes, changing for the worse he says, the character of the borough.
    ian_sinclair5-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The poster is an artist's impression of new London Housing Association company L & Q who are replacing older generation homes, changing for the worse he says, the character of the borough.
    ian_sinclair4-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The poster is an artist's impression of new London Housing Association company L & Q who are replacing older generation homes, changing for the worse he says, the character of the borough.
    ian_sinclair3-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The poster is an artist's impression of new London Housing Association company L & Q who are replacing older generation homes, changing for the worse he says, the character of the borough.
    ian_sinclair2-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The green waters are in the Regents Canal, filled with algae fed by the materials of the Olympic construction site.
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  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The green waters are in the Regents Canal, filled with algae fed by the materials of the Olympic construction site.
    ian_sinclair13-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The condemned housing is in Dalston/Hackney whose former residents are celebrated in a series of portraits before their demolition.
    ian_sinclair11-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The condemned housing is in Dalston/Hackney whose former residents are celebrated in a series of portraits before their demolition.
    ian_sinclair10-14-August-2011.jpg
  • English author/writer Ian Sinclair in his native Hackney, the location for many of his dystopian views on East London. The poster is an artist's impression of new London Housing Association company L & Q who are replacing older generation homes, changing for the worse he says, the character of the borough.
    ian_sinclair1-14-August-2011.jpg
  • A member of British AIrways' Engineering explains technical jargon to author Alain de Botton while writing his Heathrow book.
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  • With fresh flowers and fruit on the table, a local authority worker tucks in to breakfast at his depot canteen, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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  • A portrait of a tough-looking local authority worker whose winter job is snow removal, on 11th January 1999, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
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  • Alongside other union officials, GMB union leader, Ian Lowes speaks to redundant refuse workers in Liverpool during the 1991 local authority strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
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  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest05-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest06-24-11-2020.jpg
  • The Socialist Militant newspaper is held by a man alongside other workers, listen to speeches in central Liverpool during the bin men strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin such as rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
    liverpool_strike02-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle is parked opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-306-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A local authority cleaner works as a priest pays the bill in afternoon sunshine in the arched passageway of the Renaissance Cloth Hall on Rynek Glowny market square, on 22nd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-273-22-09-2019.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leaning against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-05-06-02-2018.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leaning against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-02-06-02-2018.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leaning against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-01-06-02-2018.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius161-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius160-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius159-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius199-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius188-29-05-2014.jpg
  • In a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England, we see many black bin-bags are left against industrial brick walls awaiting collection during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. The cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses are in a poor area, south of the city centre and home to deprived families. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs now exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    toxteth_alley-14-06-1991.jpg
  • Beyond Chinese TV media images, a red sun sinks behind late cloud in the west, a glowing red sky illuminates Hong Kong's harbour, this scene is symbolic of the decline of empire, the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) two years after this picture was taken, often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From this famous ferry terminal that protrudes out into the busy waters of this colony's harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood in the days before China ceded its territory to the British for 155 years until the 1997 deadline.
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  • Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. There is an older, taller white teenage girl with blonde hair dressed in a blue shell-suit and a shorter and younger friend of Asian-descent. Looking suspicious and amused at something across the cobbled alley of these 'back to back' houses in a poor area, South of the city centre, home to deprived families. The industrial action aginst the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool during the summer of '91 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs exist after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats.
    RB_017-14-06-1991.jpg
  • In light monsoonal rain, a lone pedestrian is seen from a high viewpoint, crossing a zebra crossing with a yellow grid box junction to his right in Central Hong Kong on the last day of British rule. The junction is empty and without any traffic but the word 'Look' is stencilled in white letters for the benefit of unwary pedestrians. An umbrella used by the unrecognisable person is a colour match with the painted striped road markings, identical to the British highway traffic code. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand at ease and we see the back of one of the squadron's official photographers head, looking into the viewfinder of his camera to record an official photograph immediately on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • A woodland landscape where a protest is ongoing in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest11-24-11-2020-2.jpg
  • The notification of a tree removal notice and injunction against obstruction is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest02-24-11-2020-2.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest04-24-11-2020.jpg
  • The notification of a tree removal notice and injunction against obstruction is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest02-24-11-2020.jpg
  • The notification of a tree removal notice and injunction against obstruction is attached to the trunk of an oak tree in Sydenham Hill Woods, the scene of a protest against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest01-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest03-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest08-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest07-24-11-2020.jpg
  • A woodland landscape where a protest is ongoing in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest10-24-11-2020.jpg
  • A woodland landscape where a protest is ongoing in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest11-24-11-2020.jpg
  • Activists' banners in Sydenham Hill Woods against the proposed felling of two 100+ year-old oak trees, threatened by Southwark Council because of their proximity to 'Pissarro's' footbridge whose renovation has been deemed necessary by the local authority, on 24th November 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood and Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) famously painted a railway landscape from the bridge in the 1870s. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    tree_protest09-24-11-2020.jpg
  • A city authority worker oversees the emptying of trash into a Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle opposite the renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-310-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A wheelie bin empties trash into a city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-309-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A wheelie bin empties trash into a city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-308-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A wheelie bin empties trash into a city authority Mercedes Sprinter waste collection vehicle opposite the Renaissance Cloth Hall during morning rubbish duties on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-307-23-09-2019.jpg
  • A local authority street sweeper has paused during morning cleaning patrols beneath the architecture of the Cloth Hall and the the City Hall Tower (right) on Rynek Glowny market square, on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-305-23-09-2019.jpg
  • During the Liverpool binmens' strike of 1991, litter and refuse bags collect in the back alleyway of back-to-back terraced houses, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, England. Surrounded by black bin-bags during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991, two young "Scouse' girls lean against a brick wall in a rear alleyway between poor terraced housing in Liverpool, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs existed in the 1990s after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    liverpool_strike01-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A resident of Liverpool takes his refuse to Allerton Park during the Liverpool binmens' strike of 1991, on 14th June 1991, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The industrial action against the local authority was a health problem for Liverpool over that summer when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks filled with every kind of refuse and garbage. Few of these back-to-backs existed in the 1990s after being cleared to allow construction of high-rise tower-blocks and flats. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    liverpool_strike02-14-06-1991.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leaning against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-04-06-02-2018.jpg
  • A stained white mattress leaning against a wall next to a sign warning of £2,500 fines by the local authority for dumping or fly-tipping, on 6th February 2018, in the borough of Camden, London, England.
    dumped_mattress-03-06-02-2018.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, shows lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius217-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, shows lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius215-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius164-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, on the crater edge of the Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius206-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
    vesuvius190-29-05-2014.jpg
  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, volcanologist with the Osservatorio Vesuviano and leading authority on local geology and civil evacuation plans, inspects lava rock on the slopes of the dormant Vesuvius volcano, Italy.
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  • A woman police officer (WPC) stands with white paint plashed over her uniform during a public protest over the Poll Tax policies of Margaret Thatcher's government in 1990. It is dark and the trouble has been growing throughout the evening when the paint was thrown by unknown protesters. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Thatcher's local authority tax, eventually stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather at the stroke of midnight beneath umbrellas to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From the on the roof of Ocean Terminal shopping mall, the skyline is filled with fireworks but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering behind the viewer on the top floor of the building which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • In heavy monsoonal rain, crowds gather beneath umbrellas on the roof of Ocean Terminal to witness the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight signified the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. A cruise liner is moored s small distance away but the glowing red comes from giant advertising lettering on the top floor of the shopping mall which protrudes out into Hong Kong harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory.  Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Looking through the large windows of Greater London Mayor (GLA) Ken Livingstone's headquarters on the River Thames, a lone figure stands silhouetted with a floodlit Tower Bridge in the background. We see the reflections of the GLA building pasted over the evening sky above Tower Bridge. London's famous bridge was completed in 1894 and remains one of the capital's most visible symbols both for Victorian engineering and as a tourist landmark. The Mayor's Greater London Authority (GLA) headquarters stands over the Thames, opposite the Tower of London on the north shore.
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  • Against the strong spotlight of the Big Top, a ringmaster announces the next act during an afternoon performance by the Gerry Cottle circus in North London. With his top hat perched firmly on his head and holding his microphone, the leader of his troupe smiles confidently and speaks with authority to the unseen audience who eagerly await the skills of acrobats or clowns who are about to enter the ring. In his scarlet red coat and holding a pair of gloves in his other hand, the man is the epitome of showmen - a picture of show businesses and variety, of the presenter from another era.
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  • Standing on the back of his utility vehicle, a man empties the contents of his dustbin onto a growing pile of rubbish in a recreation park in the otherwise  affluent Allerton area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during the Merseyside dustmans' strike of 1991. Adding to this mountain of refuse, the 'Scouse' man (someone from Liverpool) is seen surrounded by black binliners and items from domestic homes which have been allocated this public space to become a temporary landfill. The industrial action aginst the local authority - over pay and working conditions  - was a health problem for Liverpool's population during the summer of 1991 when streets filled with rubbish. Vermin like rats ran around and public city parks such as this were filled with every kind of refuse and garbage.
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  • Several metres above the ground, a lone protester hangs on to a street light pole in London's Trafalgar Square at the height of the famous Poll Tax Riot on 31st March 1990 as flames erupt from a building site on The Strand. Angry crowds, demonstrating against Margaret Thatcher's local authority tax, stormed the Whitehall area and then London's West End, setting fire to a construction site and cars, looting stores up Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane. The anti-poll tax rally in central London erupted into the worst riots seen in the city for a century. Forty-five police officers were among the 113 people injured as well as 20 police horses. 340 people were arrested.
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  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, informally addresses the team's highly-skilled ground crew at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus after the whole team's success of passing PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'). The Red Arrows are then allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the general public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK. Squadron Leader Jepson has gathered his engineers and support crew known as the Blues to congratulate and encourage them. Specialists like these outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • Craning their necks skyward, both a pilot and support ground engineers of elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, gaze up to view an air display directly overhead at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. It is a perfect day for aerobatics with blue skies and during the team's two-day visit to the Swiss airfield at Payerne. Pilot Squadron Leader John Green is one of nine aviators who are collectively known as the Reds because of their famous red flying suits. The ground crew are obviously called the Blues. Payerne is home of the Swiss Air Force who host the cream of international aerobatic display flying every September to 275,000 spectators over a weekend. The picture is full of humour because John Green is looking one way and the two others look in the opposite direction, while standing next to the aircraft.   .
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  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
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  • Writer Alain de Botton leans against a giant jet engine of manufacturer CFM during the the Paris Air Show exhibition at Le Bourget and while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton 2009).
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  • Celebrated grave for the Dublin-born playright and known homosexual, Oscar Wilde in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris. 19th century Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde once quipped: "One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." He died in Paris at only 46, impoverished and broken down from years of being villified by Victorian society. He was buried at Père Lachaise with a modest tomb, but a memorial was later erected. Today the monument is covered in lipstick marks left by ardent visitors..
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  • Writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean.
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  • The writer, essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton leans against the wheel of a traditional dhoni boat in the Indian Ocean. De Botton is in the Maldives researching his book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' about the world of Work, published in April 2009. Here he accompanies a fishing boat crew who use hand and line methods to land yellow fin tuna for export to the EU and in particular, Sainsbury's supermarket. Barefoot on the roof of the wheelhouse and with the top of his pen in mouth, he looks thoughfully into the distance to think of more great ideas for his best-selling book. Alain de Botton (born Zurich, 1969) now lives in London. His best-selling books refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
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  • Modern CCTV security cameras keeping watch over the ancient Egyptian remains of Luxor Temple, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • A City of London CCTV enforcement car drives through green reflected light shining from an office building.
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  • White smoke left in summer skies by the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team.
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  • A portrait of eccentric English travel writer, Arthur Eperon in the summer of 1989, in Horsmonden, England. Eperon wrote books and travel articles, introducing hundreds of thousands of British readers to a hidden France of scenic and gastronomic delights, burgeoning their need for informed and entertaining guidance on “abroad”.
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  • A formal portrait of the renowned British mountaineer, adventurer, lecturer and writer, Sir Chris Bonnington on 5th February 1993 at his home called Badger Hill, Wigton, Cumbria, England. Bonnigton is best known for his 1975 expedition to conquer Mount Everest though he was formerly an army officer in the Royal Tank Regiment before making mountaineering and the writing of these sometimes tragic outcomes a career.
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  • English writer, Jeffrey Barnard drinks at lunchtime in his favoured Coach And Horses pub, in the summer of 1990 in Soho, London, England. Jeffrey Bernard (1932 – 1997) was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in The Spectator magazine, and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London's Soho district. He was later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.
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