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Photo taken in March 2017 shows ninja documents discovered in 2000 in Koka, western Japan. According to analysis of the documents, textbooks detailing...

Photo taken in March 2017 shows ninja documents discovered in 2000 in Koka, western Japan. According to analysis of the documents, textbooks detailing...

Photo taken in March 2017 shows ninja documents discovered in 2000 in Koka, western Japan. According to analysis of the documents, textbooks detailing...

-- PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE MAY 21, 2017. -- FILE -- Jean Stein, the author, oral historian and editor, a...

The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metre Hill, Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you f...

Post-war, the number of allotment holders declined. However, growing vegetables at home was a common pastime, helping some families supplement the wee...

Gardens with bright colourful flower beds became increasingly popular as the decade progressed, particularly in more prosperous middle-class household...

Demolishing old terraced housing in Emmanuel Street, Cambridge, while a shop remains open at the other end. Early 1950s. BRITAIN???S decade of transfo...

Nurses and a doctor attending wounded soldiers on a hospital ward. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suff...

Wisbey builders from nearby Haslingfield, constructing a large estate of brick council houses in Medcalf Way, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, 1950s. BRITAIN...

Prince Mikeladzy, chief of the Russian gendarmes, on his round below one of the forts - Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin woul...

By the close of the decade, in a time of increasing affluence, more Britons had disposable cash to spend on cars and holidays. A full car park at Brai...

Rockingham Way in Stevenage New Town, 1956, provided local amenities including shops, pub and public transport. Few residents owned cars. BRITAIN???S...

Architects Fry, Drew & Partners??? early 1950s plans for flats in Tony???s Dell, Harlow, included balconies and, unusually, central eating. BRITAIN???...

In 1958, two models from Johnsons of Great Yarmouth stand on a very modern, open-plan staircase advertising sailcloth skirts. BRITAIN???S decade of tr...

BRITAIN???S decade of transformation in the 1950s after the austerity caused by the Second World War has been showcased in a new book. Incredible imag...

Christine Watson sitting astride the family motorbike in 1953. Cutout crowns were fixed onto the garden shed to celebrate the Coronation. BRITAIN???S...

Eric and Nora Phillips proudly reveal their newly cleaned first car, a Standard Vanguard. Outside their Llanelli home, 1955. BRITAIN???S decade of tra...

The 1951 Festival of Britain???s Southbank with brightly coloured building and umbrellas. Festival Hall is at the back of the lower image. Below: The...

Many rural homes were often very isolated. Few households had cars, and residents had to depend on infrequent buses. BRITAIN???S decade of transformat...

Middle-class housing. Hilda Parry and her daughter Hilary outside their substantial inter-war semidetached house, in Meadow Lane, Worsley, Lancashire,...

Student???s bedroom/study, University of Bristol, 1953. A modern gas fire sits under a heavy, old-fashioned wooden fire surround. BRITAIN???S decade o...

1950s neighbours chat over the fence. Mid-terrace and end-of-terrace council homes, with commonly styled front porches. BRITAIN???S decade of transfor...

A 1950s postcard showing semi-detached bungalows with neat front gardens. There are only three cars in Martins Avenue, Denmead, Hampshire. BRITAIN???S...

Wood and paper continued to be in short supply in the early years. A 1950 dolls??? house was made out of an old orange box. BRITAIN???S decade of tran...

A crowd of Japanese soldiers; Chinese coolies in right foreground, Manchuria. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after...

Japanese nurses carrying a patient on a stretcher. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suffered complete de...

STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suffered complete defeat to the military might of Japan. The rare pictu...

Crowds lining the street as the procession of carriages carrying Admiral Togo, naval officers, and government officials passes through a triumphial ar...

Both front and internal doors had fewer panels and embellishments after the war, when timber was still in short supply. BRITAIN???S decade of transfor...

Early morning in a Russian battery during the siege of Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suf...

Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial on a hill, Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would...

Multiple occupancy terraced housing in Gothic Street, Cambridge, 1950s. Few cars and gardens meant children played in the street. BRITAIN???S decade o...

STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suffered complete defeat to the military might of Japan. The rare pictu...

In the best restaurant during the awful siege - wrecked by Japanese shells - Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you f...

Nurses and a doctor attending wounded soldiers on a hospital ward. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suff...

Russia's fleet lying under great Golden Hill forts, being sunk by Japanese shells -- Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would ha...

Priest and soldiers praying over bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial on a hill, Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would...

An American cruiser firing its guns in salute as it arrives in New York, probably at the time of the Portsmouth Peace Conference. STUNNING images have...

Sailors, probably American, and some civilians posed on a cruiser berthed in New York. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forg...

Russian soldiers looking down at a trench filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers, Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would hav...

Sunken warships, Port Arthur. STUNNING images have revealed the war Putin would have you forget after Russia suffered complete defeat to the military...

ES130-16-30 (SC379589) Members of H Co 5th Cavalry Regiment set up barbed wire entanglement, which guards their company area. 9 Sep 1951. AS AMERICA s...

ES119-13-1 (SC370299) Soldiers using mine detectors to sweep the road clear of hidden Communist planted land mines for an advancing M-4 tank, 10 Jun 1...

ES111-11-27 (SC363925) Members of the 16th Reconnaissance Company, 1st Cavalry Division sets the fuses on a "Daisy Chain" of light anti-tank mines, no...

ES92-52-1 (SC344020) American Army Engineers use a native two-wheeled cart to remove large boulders from a river bed as they clear a route for the adv...

A woman swings her bag at riot police as she and other women from a dissident group confront a cordon of police during a memorial rally, July 5, 1987,...

A riot policeman returns a demonstrator's Molotov cocktail during anti-government protests at Hanyang University in Seoul, June 22, 1987. The bomb was...

David Currie was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in command of a battle group at St. Lambert-sur-Dive, during the final actions to close th...

File photo of the Queen Mother (then the Duchess of York) and her husband King George VI (then the Duke of York) holding their daughter Princess Eliza...