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31 imagesThaxted Essex England a small town with colourfully painted houses and buildings photographed by Brian Harris Thaxted, colourful, colorful, colours, colors, bright, ancient, old, timber frame, Essex, John Betjamin, Gustav Holst, Conrad Noel, -
39 imagesThaxted Essex England a beautiful small town in East Anglia where most of the ancient medieval buildings are made from wood, except the wonderful Church and John Webb's Windmill -
25 imagesCoronavirus Rainbows drawn by children in Thaxted Essex England showing support for NHS workers during the Covid-19 Lockdown period in 2020 -
49 imagesThaxted Essex England The annual Morris dancing Weekend in 1999 -
17 imagesThaxted Morris Dancing Weekend June 2018, Thaxted Essex England UK -
40 imagesThaxted Morris Weekend, Thaxted Essex, England. 30-31st May 2015 -
49 imagesThe Atlantic Wall built by the Nazis during World War 2 along the Dutch, Belgian and French coastline to the border with Spain to stop any invading allied armies on the beaches. It failed !! -
68 imagesEast Germany after the fall of The Wall but before reunification in spring 1990 -
43 imagesBuchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar Germany photographed over several years by Brian Harris -
12 imagesColle di val d'Elsa in Tuscany Italy. Farmers meet during Friday Market in the town. -
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33 imagesFrench Politics during the 1988 Presidential Elections featuring Socialist Francois Mitterrand and Jean-Marie Le Pen from the right wing National Front. -
47 imagesCity of London photographed in 1988. Traders and dealers at LIFFE, London Metal Exchange, Lloyds of London and brokers at work. Scanned in 2020 -
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27 imagesIronbridge Shropshire. The Iron Bridge built by Thomas Telford across the River Severn. -
25 imagesDerby Day Horse Racing on Epsom Downs 1986. The British Royal Family in attendance. -
32 imagesAscot Horse Races with member os the British Royal Family including The Queen and Princess Diana in attendance 1986 -
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144 imagesBerlin , Germany, photographed in 2009 twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall which is also on this site. -
60 imagesJohn Carey, literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford photographed on assignment for Intelligent Life Magazine for one of the magazines regular features where authors visit their favourite museums. -
18 imagesLeipzig in what was East Germany during the period that the Berlin Wall was breached in November 1989 -
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74 imagesThe Somme Battlefield in France - the 100th anniversary of the Somme battle which started on 1st July 1916. On the first day of battle over 59,000 Commonwealth soldiers were dead or injured. -
79 imagesBerlin, Germany, November 1989 photographed before during and after the Berlin Wall was breached. -
17 imagesLa Bella Figura - Italy 2018 Observations on Italian style photographed in Greve, Sansepolcro and Verona. -
48 imagesThaxted Morris Weekend 3-4 June 2017 A meeting of member clubs of the Morris Ring celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Thaxted Morris Dancing side or team in Thaxted, North West Essex, England UK. Members of Chalice side from Western Super Mare in white and Silkeborg from Denmark in black Dancing at Finchingfield Essex Hundred of Morris dancers from the UK and this year the Silkeborg side from Denmark spend most of Saturday dance outside pubs in nearby villages where much beer is consumed. In the late afternoon all the sides congregate in Thaxted where massed dancing is perfomed along Town Street. As darkness falls across Thaxted the spell binding Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed to the sound of a solo violin in the dark. -
15 imagesDresden in what was then East Germany November 1989 The streets of Dresden, Saxony, in former East Germany photographed in the week following the fall of the Wall in Berlin, November 1989. Wikipeadia: Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour. The city was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city centre. The controversial American and British bombing of Dresden in World War II towards the end of the war killed approximately 25,000, many of whom were civilians, and destroyed the entire city centre. After the war restoration work has helped to reconstruct parts of the historic inner city, including the Katholische Hofkirche, the Zwinger and the famous Semper Oper. Title: -
9 imagesJohn Carey, literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. February 2014 Photographed for the Times Higher Education Supplement - THES - at Merton College. John Carey (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was born in Barnes, London, and educated at Richmond and East Sheen Boys’ Grammar School, winning an Open Scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. He served in the East Surrey Regiment, 1952-4, and was commissioned. After posts in a number of Oxford colleges, he became Merton Professor in 1975, retiring in 2001. He is known, amongst other things, for his anti-elitist tone and iconoclastic views on high culture, as expressed for example in his book What Good Are the Arts? (2005). He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the London Sunday Times and appears in radio and TV programmes such as Saturday Review and Newsnight Review. -
52 imagesMy coverage of four days on Bill Clinton's Presidential election campaign trail in October 1992...starting in his home town of Hot Springs in Arkansas via his campaign HQ in Little Rock...then on the stump in downtown Philadelphia...the beginning of the road trip south following the candidate while I travelled on the bus with 'Lady Soul' to Wilmington where Harry Belafonte gave his support at an evening rally...then on to Atlanta and Paine College in Augusta in Georgia. On the last evening I attended an evening vigil at the tomb of Martin Luther King east of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Dr. King preached with members of his family and Vice Presidential candidate Al Gore -
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23 imagesThe Mighty British Oak Tree through a single year. North Essex UK. Oak Tree, seasons, England, English, British Oak Tree, -
32 imagesThaxted Essex UK. John Webb's Windmill Restoration 13 January 2024 Photograph by Brian Harris © 2024 -
42 imagesThaxted Windmill correctly known as John Webb's Windmill in Thaxted Essex UK. Photograph by Brian Harris © 2024 -
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43 imagesThaxted Morris Weekend. 1-2 June 2024 Morris dancing in Thaxted and surrounding villages -
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27 imagesAmerican Presidential Election 1988 and 1992 in New Hampshire USA -
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145 imagesBerlin Germany photographed by Brian Harris in 2009 twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 -
36 imagesCommonwealth War Graves Commission CWGC cemeteries around the world photographed by Brian Harris for The Remembered book and exhibition project -
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