Gallery technician checks an art treasure protected by sandbags next to the recently uncovered Monument to Marchese Spinetta Malaspina in a closed...
Empty display cabinets in a closed gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London on 13th December 1945. Boxes of valuable...
American chess player Herman Steiner stands behind to watch a game between, on left, Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet of England and, on right, Polish...
Austrian born British artist and sculptor Siegfried Charoux at work in his studio in England on 31st January 1946.
Visitor bends down to view A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House by Samuel van Hoogstraten back on display at the National Gallery...
Statue of Narcissus by Florentine sculptor Valerio Cioli stored with cases of unpacked ceramics in a closed gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum...
Austrian born British artist and sculptor Siegfried Charoux at work sketching a nude life model in his studio in England on 31st January 1946.
With the aid of two gallery assistants, senior technician Mr W Baker stands on a ladder to hang a portrait painting of King Louis XV by Louis-Michel...
Valuable paintings stored away from leaky roofs and other war damage that is keeping rooms closed at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square in...
English conductor and composer Malcolm Sargent seated at a piano with young music fans ahead of conducting the Liverpool Philharminic Orchestra in a...
British writer and producer Maurice Cowan , editor of Picture Goer magazine, posed in London in December 1945.
English conductor and composer Malcolm Sargent conducts the Liverpool Philharminic Orchestra in rehearsal ahead of a Youth Concert at the...
English policewomen, from left, Elizabeth Bather and Dorothy Peto posed in uniform in London in December 1945. Dorothy Peto was appointed in 1930 as...
Caitlin Thomas , author and wife of Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas, with their daughter, Aeronwy outside the couple's flat in Chelsea, London on...
Visitors view the gilt bronze recumbent effigies of King Henry III and Queen Eleanor of Castile on display in the entrance hall of the Victoria and...
Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas writes a note with pen and ink on the kitchen table of the flat he shares with wife Caitlin and daughter Aeronwy...
Art expert Charles Johnson gives a lecture on English landscape painting to a group of visitors at the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square in London...
English policewoman Dorothy Peto , appointed in 1930 as first female Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, posed in uniform in London in...
Visitor stands over the gilt bronze recumbent effigy of Elizabeth of York, wife of King Henry VII, on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in...
English conductor and composer Malcolm Sargent conducts the Liverpool Philharminic Orchestra in rehearsal ahead of a Youth Concert at the...
Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas posed in front of ruined and bombed out buildings in Soho, London on 9th January 1946.
English conductor and composer Malcolm Sargent conducts the Liverpool Philharminic Orchestra in rehearsal ahead of a Youth Concert at the...
Film extras and background actors including, from left, a man dressed as a cavalier, an Australian farmer and two gentlemen from the 18th century,...
Local fishermen, from left, George Harris, Fred Bumsted, Charlie Moon, Alfred Button, Bert Payne and Percy Joy enjoys pints of beer and a plate of...
The wreckage of a crashed V-1 flying bomb lies part buried with other debris from World War II on the shingle beach at Hastings in Sussex, England on...
Fishermen and net menders Thomas Willis and his son examine a broken net outside their premises beside the beach at Hastings in Sussex, England on...
Delegates attend a United Nations General Assembly conference taking place in Hoar Hall at Church House in Westminster, London on 15th December 1945.
On left, delegates Pedro Lopez of the Philippines and, on right, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia attend a United Nations General Assembly conference in...
Antiquities, paintings, bric-a-brac and other items of interest for sale in a junk shop in Soho, London on 18th October 1945.
Framed portraits of Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany, stacked up ready for sale in an auction of the contents of the former Embassy of Germany at 9...
German actor, director and arts administrator Carl Ebert , artistic director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, sits in the covered stalls of the...
German actor, director and arts administrator Carl Ebert , artistic director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, outlines his plans for next year's...
British Labour Party politician Bessie Braddock , MP for Liverpool Exchange, meets with a mother and children on a run down street in her...
British Labour Party politician Bessie Braddock , MP for Liverpool Exchange, meets with a resident during a surgery appointment meeting in her...
Canadian born British diplomat Mary McGeachy seated at a table during a meeting in London on 30th October 1945. Mary McGeachy was appointed first...
Proprieter Mr Wadhua and, on right, his chef work in the kitchen preparing boondi, an Indian sweet dish, for diners at Shafi Indian restaurant in...
Restaurateur Mario pours cognac onto a crepes suzette cooking over a spirit burner beside tables at the Belle Meuniere French restaurant at 5...
Madame hands over a dish to Luigi the waiter at Meolas Italian restaurant in Soho, London on 16th October 1945.
Diner seated at a table to eat at Youngs Chinese restaurant in Wardour Street, Soho, London on 18th October 1945. The dining room used to be a...
Exterior view of Sadler's Wells Theatre on Rosebery Avenue in London in October 1945. This theatre, the fifth built on the site, was opened in 1931...
Wine waiter Stefan pours red wine from a carafe into two glasses beside tables at The Elysee French restaurant at 13 Percy Street in Fitzrovia,...
Proprietor Bernard Walsh serves customers seated at the long table of Wheeler & Co Oyster Bar at 19-21 Old Compton Street in Soho, London on 16th...
German actor, director and arts administrator Carl Ebert , artistic director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, outlines his plans for next year's...
German actor, director and arts administrator Carl Ebert , artistic director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, outlines his plans for next year's...
Diners seated at tables to enjoy french cuisine being served at Chez Auguste restaurant at 38 Old Compton Street in Soho, London on 16th October 1945.
Diners seated at tables to enjoy french cuisine being served at Chez Auguste restaurant at 38 Old Compton Street in Soho, London on 16th October 1945.
English actor, writer and director Basil Dean , director of ENSA during World War II, posed in England on 5th October 1945.
Cars parked on a street seen from the corner of Old Compton Street in Soho, London on 16th October 1945.
Irish born British ballet dancer and choreographer Ninette de Valois , head of the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, posed in London on 8th December...
British Labour Party politician Bessie Braddock , MP for Liverpool Exchange, meets with housewives and women queuing to buy vegetables from a barrow...
British Labour Party politician Bessie Braddock , MP for Liverpool Exchange, stands on left with a female tenant who points out defects with her slum...
American rabbi and Zionist leader Stephen Samuel Wise speaks as, seated on right, Professor Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion look on, at the...
Russian born mathematician and Zionist leader Selig Brodetsky speaks as, seated from left, American rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise , German rabbi Leo...
Profile view of Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev wearing a black coat over a white turtleneck sweater, 1976.
Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev with British ballerina Margot Fonteyn, both seated at a table with Nureyev reading a...
British ballerina Margot Fonteyn in costume as Raymonda, holding a small harp, in the Australian Ballet's touring production of 'Raymonda' at the...
British ballerina Margot Fonteyn, dancing the role of Raymonda, and Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, as Jean de Brienne,...
Spanish politician Jose Giral , Prime Minister of the Spanish Republican government in Exile, posed on left with his son Antonio Giral after arriving...
French socialist and communist workers and trade union members march along a street during May Day celebrations in Paris, France in May 1946. The...
View of destroyed and bomb damaged buildings in the harbour of the port city of Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France...