Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 18 images found }

Loading ()...

  • The face of the Irish Republican Bobby Sands is painted on the office wall of Sinn Feinn, the left-wing politcal arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands (1954 - 1981) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the British Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During his strike he was elected as a member of the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate. .
    belfast_mural004-26-09-1996.jpg
  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit - Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
    DDR_travel05-06_1990.jpg
  • The golden statue of Joan of Arc carrying her banner, sparkles in sunshine, on 3rd September 2007, in Paris, France. Jeanne d'Arc is an 1874 French gilded bronze equestrian sculpture of Joan of Arc by Emmanuel Frémiet. The outdoor statue is prominently displayed in the Place des Pyramides in Paris.
    joan_statue-03-09-2007.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the 'Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government', the Workers' Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary's transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990.jpg
  • A roll-call of Irish Republican volunteers who died during the 1970s and 1980s during what is known as the Troubles. Their names and dates of their deaths is recorded in Milltown cemetery in Belfast, northern Ireland.
    ira_memorial01-26-09-1996.jpg
  • The graves of Irish Republican hunger strikers in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast. Their roll-call of names are on stones laid o the ground including that of Bobby Sands, the elected MP. The five-year protest during The Troubles began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to "slop out", the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. The second hunger strike took place in 1981 and was a showdown between the prisoners and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The strike was called off after ten prisoners had starved themselves to death?including Sands, whose funeral was attended by 100,000 people,
    hunger_strikers-26-09-1996.jpg
  • The new Shard tower rises high above London next to new housing and the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea, on 28th November 2016, in Borough, Southwark, England.
    shard_church-01-28-11-2016.jpg
  • The new Shard tower rises high above London next to the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea, on 28th November 2016, in Borough, Southwark, England.
    shard_church-02-28-11-2016.jpg
  • A lady churchgoer attends to flowers at a traditional southern Polish Catholic shrine outside St. Adalbert Bishop And Martyr Church, on 21st September 2019, in Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-193-21-09-2019.jpg
  • The clock face of the St. Magnus the Martyr church with office windows in the heart of the Square Mile, the capital's historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
    city_offices-04-01-11-2017.jpg
  • The Priddy Sheep hurdle stack shelter at the Priddy Sheep Fair. Moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack remains in the village, so will the Fair. The Fair is held on the nearest Wednesday to 21st August, although originally it was held on the feast of St Lawrence the Martyr on the10th August. The fair has been continuously held every year since 1348, apart from the recent 2001 and 2007 foot -and-mouth epidemic years.
    priddy_shelter01-21-08-2013.jpg
  • The new Shard tower rises high above London next to the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea, on 28th November 2016, in Borough, Southwark, England.
    shard_church-04-28-11-2016.jpg
  • The almost-complete Shard skyscraper is seen alongside the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea. The Shard is a skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London. Completed in May 2012, it is the tallest building in the European Union and the 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall. It is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_landscape02-23-02-2012.jpg
  • The almost-complete Shard skyscraper is seen alongside the spire of St George the Martyr church at Marshalsea. The Shard is a skyscraper under construction in Southwark, London. Completed in May 2012, it is the tallest building in the European Union and the 46th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall. It is also be the second-tallest free-standing structure in the UK. Several Qatari investors finded the construction of the tower via Islamic finance.
    shard_landscape01-23-02-2012.jpg
  • The Priddy Sheep hurdle stack shelter at the Priddy Sheep Fair. Moved from Wells in 1348 because of the Black Death, evidence has been found of a Fair being held at Priddy before that. There is a local legend, which says that as long as the hurdle stack remains in the village, so will the Fair. The Fair is held on the nearest Wednesday to 21st August, although originally it was held on the feast of St Lawrence the Martyr on the10th August. The fair has been continuously held every year since 1348, apart from the recent 2001 and 2007 foot -and-mouth epidemic years.
    priddy_shelter02-21-08-2013.jpg
  • The SE corner of Connaught Square W2 (on the junction with Seymour Street), the location now said by historians to be the site of the medieval Tyburn gallows. Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the Thames. For many centuries, the name was synonymous with capital punishment, its having been the principal place for execution of London criminals and convicted traitors and martyrs.
    connaught_sq01-02-10-2012.jpg
  • National flags hanging outside the Prefecture (an administrative jurisdiction), on Place des Martyrs de la Resistance, Montpellier, south of France.
    montpellier-46-18-06-2016.jpg
  • The SE corner of Connaught Square W2 (on the junction with Seymour Street), the location now said by historians to be the site of the medieval Tyburn gallows. Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the Thames. For many centuries, the name was synonymous with capital punishment, its having been the principal place for execution of London criminals and convicted traitors and martyrs.
    connaught_sq02-02-10-2012.jpg
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

Richard Baker Photography

  • Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area
  • Portfolio
  • About
  • Contact
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Blog