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British actor Alec Guinness (1914 - 2000) with his fiance Merula Salaman 19th May 1938. They met while both working for John Gielgud's stage company at the Queen's Theatre in London. 1939 Register

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An early photograph of a baptism ceremony, c. 1860 baptism records

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First World War soldiers at the Battle of Ypres, 1917 First World War records

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An operation in a lecture theatre at University College Hospital Medical School, London, in 1898

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Hopscotch Inn: The Work Of The Save The Children Fund In Wartime London, England, UK, 1944

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