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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show04-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show08-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. Wearing white gloves and a decorative overcoat worn on special occasions, we see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    aldeman_sceptre01-15-11-1983.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.
    star_ferry07-31-1997.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show02-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show05-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show07-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show06-10-11-2012.jpg
  • As a sleeping homeless man lies curled up in his sleeping bag on a central London pavement, two window cleaners have carefully placed their ladders at his feet to clean a Boots the chemist sign. Each wearing identical blue working overalls and each wiping the frontage with their left hands, the men are symbolic of the working man versus that of a homeless person without a job, prospects or perhaps a future. The wide gap between hopelessness and the pride of one's achievement is shown here on the sidewalk of modern-day Britain. London is home to some 50,000 homeless people whose place of rest can often be recesses and shop doorways where they seek sanctuary from the cold and street violence. On the opposite end of the wealth and social divides are those who seek work with a positive outlook on life.
    homeless_ladders03-16-1993.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show10-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show09-10-11-2012.jpg
  • The Monday morning following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th we see members of the National Guard wearing dust masks standing beneath the high columns of the Federal Hall, located at 26 Wall Street in New York City. It was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789. It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. To celebrate the near-return to financial normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. Days after the historical events, security was prominent at all nationally symbolic institutions and buildings. As a show of force, it was also a clear deterrent for would-be criminals when New Yorkers felt vulnerable to further attack.
    september11th011-16-09_2001.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery05-06-04-2013.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery01-06-04-2013.jpg
  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. The two men are kissing on the lips, one of the most iconic paintings that symbolised a divided Europe during the Cold War. The Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kisses his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_gallery03-06-04-2013.jpg
  • It is dusk and the evening light is fast-disappearing behind the buildings of Westminster, London. Seen from the south bank of the River Thames and looking over Westminster Bridge, traffic lights trail and the light fades over the Palace of Westminster and the tall clock tower of Big Ben, London England. Street lights flare intensively during the long-exposure and there is enough ambient light to see the reflections on the river's water. The Palace, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) conduct their business. It is therefore a potent symbol for British Governmental power, influence and a world-famous landmark for tourists. Big Ben is the name of the clock's bell and not the tower itself.
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  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War...
    DDR_travel01-06_1990.jpg
  • Detail of the cenotaph dedicated to the women of world war 2, in Whitehall, Westminster London. The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London, to the north of the Cenotaph. It was sculpted by John W. Mills, unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II and dedicated by Baroness Boothroyd in July 2005.
    war_memorial01-13-04-2015.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-09-03-04-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-07-03-04-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-06-03-04-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-05-03-04-2019.jpg
  • The iconic elephant at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-07-29-03-2018.jpg
  • The iconic elephant at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-05-29-03-2018.jpg
  • The iconic elephant at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-04-29-03-2018.jpg
  • The iconic elephant at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-03-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A Sikh man helps another up, beneath one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london04-05-03-2015.jpg
  • A Sikh man stands under one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london02-05-03-2015.jpg
  • A Sikh man with another, beneath one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london05-05-03-2015.jpg
  • A Sikh man stands under one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london03-05-03-2015.jpg
  • The Palace of Westminster, the statue of Queen Boudicca (also Boadicea) in her chariot with the Queen Elizabeth tower (containing the Big Ben bell) ..
    westminster01-27-01-2013.jpg
  • A detail of the Skull and Crossbones on the gates of St Nicholas Church, Deptford, London - thought to have been the inspiration for Captain Morgan's pirate flag. .This church is a short walk down from the ship yards on the Thames. The sailors would come here to pray before embarking on a new voyage. Some of their voyages were to plunder from any ship they found on the high seas. Since they could not fly the flag of their nationality they chose to fly the Skull and Crossbones flag of St. Nicholas, that way other Deptford ships would not attack them.
    skull_crossbones-14-06-1995.jpg
  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death4-06-10-2011.jpg
  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death3-06-10-2011.jpg
  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death1-06-10-2011.jpg
  • The cross on the wall of Herne Hill's United Reform Church and shadow of bare winter tree.
    tree_cross01-09-01-2011.jpg
  • Crowds of British citizens to and fro beneath Gothic tower of Big Ben in Parliament Square.
    big_ben_people05-25-04-2010.jpg
  • Crowds of British citizens to and fro beneath Gothic tower of Big Ben in Parliament Square.
    big_ben_people02-25-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament and jogger on the Embankment. Passing-by at speed with a slight blur, the male sportsman runs by the racks of colourful postcards showing London scenes, their prices written on makeshift marker on a white board. Beyond is Westminster Bridge that stretches of the River Thames, towards the British Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben's clock tower rising high above. It is a fine sunny day and a woman is writing more prices for tourist mementoes of another board, leaning on the river wall. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster.
    parliament12-08-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament seen from the Embankment
    parliament09-08-04-2010.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-13-03-04-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-12-03-04-2019.jpg
  • The iconic elephant at Elephant and Castle shopping centre, on 29th March, 2018 in London, England.
    elephant_and_castle-06-29-03-2018.jpg
  • A Sikh man stands under one of the four lions at the base of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
    asian_london01-05-03-2015.jpg
  • Londoners wave flags outside Buckingham Palace during 1995 VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations in London. The crowd of royalists have gathered outside the palace gates to sing their national anthem and wave their union jack flags. In the week near the anniversary date of May 8, 1945, when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Germany and peace was announced to tumultuous crowds across European cities, the British still go out of their way to honour those sacrificed and the realisation that peace was once again achieved. Street parties now – as they did in 1945 – played a large part in the country’s patriotic well-being.
    flags_palace-06-05-1995.jpg
  • A detail of a City of London Goldsmith's street sign on the corner of Suffolk Lane and Lombard Street in the heart of the capital's financial district. A golden crown sits above the head of an eminent 18th century financier.
    banking_sign02-20-05-1993.jpg
  • Exterior of 68 Lombard Street with the Grasshopper sign of Martins Bank. The sign of the grasshopper is one of the ancient shop signs of Lombard Street. It is associated with Sir Thomas Gresham (d. 1579), Elizabeth I's financial agent, who played an important part in the development of English banking. In the reign of Charles II. we find the "Grasshopper" in Lombard Street the sign of another wealthy goldsmith, Sir Charles Duncombe, the founder of the Feversham family, and the purchaser of Helmsley, in Yorkshire, the princely seat of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham: "Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Yields to a scrivener and a City knight."
    banking_sign04-20-05-1993.jpg
  • Exterior of 68 Lombard Street with the Grasshopper sign of Martins Bank. The sign of the grasshopper is one of the ancient shop signs of Lombard Street. It is associated with Sir Thomas Gresham (d. 1579), Elizabeth I's financial agent, who played an important part in the development of English banking.
    city_people14-24-02-2012.jpg
  • Looking up at the corporate flag of Apple's logo on a banner high above street level at Regent House (1898) in London's Regent's Street. This Apple Store was the first to be built in Europe and serves as a flagship outlet for the stylish brand of computer accessories that were largely the brainchild of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) who started the company as a student in 1977.
    steveJobs_death2-06-10-2011.jpg
  • A Muslim lady tourist walks along the Embankment past Parliament under Conservative election banner.
    parliament_thames11-16-04-2010.jpg
  • Young lady reads book during peaceful moment on Thames River opposite Big Ben and Parliament at sunset.
    parliament_thames08-16-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament seen from the Embankment at sunset.
    parliament_thames05-16-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament seen from the Embankment at sunset.
    parliament_thames02-16-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament seen from the Embankment. A male jogger passes-by, a silhouette seen aginst the strong power of Parliament on the River Thames. As he runs across the scene, his head appears to be nudging the clock tower of Big Ben, an appearance of false scale. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster.
    parliament10-08-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament. To the left we see the Gothic Revival facade of Westminster Abbey's Henry the VIII's Lady Chapel that juts out on the eastern side towards the Palace of Westminster or The House of Commons, which is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster.
    parliament08-08-04-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament seen through railings.
    parliament04-08-04-2010.jpg
  • Silver Royal Navy ship's bell of HMS Vigilant, a Vanguard class nuclear submarine while docked at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane
    5105-RPB59-faslane200-26-09-2007.jpg
  • A detail of a rack of postcards showing a matrix of scenes and cityscapes of London on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
    postcards_rack-01-10-08-2017.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), a pro-EU Santa ringing a Brexit bell is taunted by Brexiteers during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-70-11-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), a pro-EU Santa rings a Brexit bell during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-69-11-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), a pro-EU Santa rings a Brexit bell during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-66-11-12-2018.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag is tangled on a lamp post near the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-21-23-11-2017.jpg
  • Sad spotted bunting hanging from a cricket pavillion, on 3rd April, 2017, in Hadlow, Kent, England.
    kent_bunting-02-02-04-2017.jpg
  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting01-16-1993.jpg
  • Childrens' drawings showing one child's experiences of war on a souk market wall of the 4 sq km Abu Shouk refugee camp which is (disputedly) home to 38,000 displaced persons and families on the outskirts of the front-line town of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) in north Darfur. Drawing shows armoured personel vehicle among village homes and trees - a far cry from this huge camp.
    sudan193-24-05-2009.jpg
  • As an approaching storm nears, the British Union Jack flag flies in darkening skies - a metaphor for Brexit, on 1st October 2019, in London, England.
    Britain_storm-02-01-10-2019.jpg
  • As an approaching storm nears, the British Union Jack flag flies in darkening skies - a metaphor for Brexit, on 1st October 2019, in London, England.
    Britain_storm-01-01-10-2019.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), a pro-EU Santa ringing a Brexit bell is taunted by Brexiteers during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-71-11-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), a pro-EU Santa rings a Brexit bell during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-68-11-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), a pro-EU Santa rings a Brexit bell during a protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-67-11-12-2018.jpg
  • An Anglo-French cyclist flies the British Union Jack and French French Tricolour flags on his handelars as he cycles through south London, at Elephant And Castle, on 3rd May 2018, in London, UK.
    anglo_french_cyclist-01-03-05-2018.jpg
  • The stars of the EU flag is tangled on a lamp post near the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, seat of government and power of the United Kingdom during Brexit negotiations with Brussels, on 23rd November 2017, in London England.
    eu_flag-22-23-11-2017.jpg
  • Sad spotted bunting hanging from a cricket pavillion, on 3rd April, 2017, in Hadlow, Kent, England.
    kent_bunting-01-02-04-2017.jpg
  • An actor plays the part of an office worker, toiling away at a desk-top PC while outside in the courtyard of the Z33 art gallery in Hasselt, Limburg Belgium. The lady artist sits typing at an imaginary work station with jackets hanging on a coat stand and with her area marked out in sand on the gravel. This incongruous scene is played out during the gallery's 'Werk Nu' (Work Now) exhibition that reflected upon the concept and meaning of 'work' in our present society, with issues such as flexibility, mobility, motivation, significance, and the work-life balance are dealt with. The art works in 'Work Now' are direct or ambiguous, whimsical.
    hasselt019-27-06-2009.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting03-16-1997.jpg
  • Two young boys hold up their plastic swords during a lull in the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, arranged in a compound belonging to the Govenor of North Darfur in Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where the women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues.
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  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young man sells memorabilia and merchandise from the former DDR (DGR) at a market stall near the Brandenburg Gate, on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
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  • Statue of London's river God, Old Father Thames with a symbolic representation of cornucopia alongside a fashion model on a catwalk during London Fashion Week.
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  • A pair of lion guards outside a Chinese restaurant in South London. The brass lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
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  • Men on the highwalk beneath the symbolic Elephant with its back-mounted castle at Elephant & Castle in Southwark, south London, on 29th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • We see one of a pair of lion guards outside the Bank of China's building in Macau (Macao), in China's Special Economic region (SER). Stone lions, also called Shishi in Chinese, are often found in pairs in front of the gates of Chinese traditional buildings. Chinese guardian lions, known also as stone lions in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They are believed to have powerful mythic protective powers that has traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures.
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  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
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  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest07-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest05-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest04-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest06-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest01-24-10-2020.jpg
  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest03-24-10-2020.jpg
  • A young, vulnerable-looking youth stands close to two members of a local Evangelical church who are using a carpet warehouse as a temporary Ministry. Rolls of carpets and rugs are behind these Christians as the two officials practice the 'laying on of hands' to cleanse the soul of their young convert during a religious meeting in Newport, Wales. As the ceremony takes place when this boy is persuaded to accept Jesus into his life, two retail signs proclaim the prices and credit terms of the household items. The laying on of hands is a religious practice found throughout the world in varying forms. In Christian churches, this practice is used as both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit during baptisms, healing services, blessings, and ordination of priests, ministers, elders, deacons, and other holy church ceremonies.
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  • Ten days ahead of the US Presidential elections, a Donald Trump lookalike holds a symbolic syringe containing the hormones that protesters say will be injected into livestock and sold to UK consumers if the UK negotiates a trade deal with the US, on 24th October 2020, in Westminster, London, England. Organisers, Global Justice Now say, "The trade deal could lead to the NHS being opened up permanently to American healthcare companies; chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef; forced deregulation of the UK’s environmental laws, workers’ rights and rights to data privacy; and new rules that make it impossible to take effective action on the climate crisis."
    Trump_hormones_protest02-24-10-2020.jpg
  • With mouth wide open in mid-shout, a young protester screams his anti-war message to the outside world during a large demonstration against the first Gulf War of 1991. He holds a placard with the now famous Peace Symbol, originally designed in 1958 for the British nuclear disarmament movement, designed by British artist Gerald Holtom for the march planned by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston. The symbol was later adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and subsequently became an international emblem for the 1960s anti-war movement and the counterculture of the time.
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  • A detail from the oversized artwork entitled Brotherhood Kiss (Bruderkuss) by Dmitry Vrubel that once adorned a section of the notorious Berlin Wall in western Germany Russian. Two seemingly gay men are kissing on the lips but this is one of the most famous paintings - a symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War. It shows Communist Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German (DDR) counterpart Erich Honecker, which was ultimately copied on to coffee cups and T-shirts across the world before being destroyed by the authorities. The artist was angry but he says he will paint a new image which was derived from a photograph of the two leaders taken 1979 but became a potent symbol of Communism's corruption and ultimate failure.
    berlin_wall_kiss-04-11-1990.jpg
  • A sun symbol belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (UML - Unified Marxist Leninist) is seen before elections in a wide landscape of a Himalayan valley in the Gorkha district, one of the 75 districts of central Nepal. Beyond the red-painted sign that has been painted in red on a footpath rock, unavoidable by community passers-by, are fertile terraces where rice and other agricultural crops are growing to sustain villages in these foothills. The light is clear and we can see into the far distance to valleys and hills beyond.
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  • Man checks messages while passing Wifi symbol, on 30th March 2017, in London, England.
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  • Under blue summer skies are the White Cliffs of Dover - a potent symbol for the island (Brexit) nation of the British Isles, on 24th Juy 2022, in Dover, Kent, England.
    white_cliffs-01-24-07-2022.jpg
  • Seen through (the Labour Party symbol) red roses, is the polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside the polling station at St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • Seen through (the Labour Party symbol) red roses, voters arrive and leave the polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • Seen through (the Labour Party symbol) red roses, an elderly voter reads an information poster at the polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • Seen through (the Labour Party symbol) red roses, a voter arrives at the polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
    elction_day-31-08-06-2017.jpg
  • Seen through (the Labour Party symbol) red roses, a voter arrives at the polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections outside St. Saviour's Parish Hall in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
    elction_day-30-08-06-2017.jpg
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