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This is one of a group of paintings John Piper produced in December 1940 and January 1941 featuring London's bomb-damaged churches

In June 1909 she started a hunger strike to protest being refused political prisoner status

Not only did she ask his advice on the design but Esther also managed to weave his initials RDJ into the bus side in tribute to him

Lovers and Strangers Paperback Soft toys Asquith Next Wednesday By EmmelineThe battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills'