Jewish Wartime home in Shanghai, 1930s.
In the 1930s and 40s, the Chinese city hosted a large, vibrant community of refugees fleeing persecution in Europe, and 20,000 or so European Jews found their way to the city.

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We're marking with this painting by one of over 300 War Artists commissioned to record the events of war and provide documentation of wartime activities. Image: Eric Ravilious (1903–1942), View Through Propeller, 1942. Towner Collection.

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Six authentic wartime recipes to celebrate VE Day, from Lord Woolton's pie to 'Surprise Potato Balls' https://t.co/PRvqTgamMF

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On Picture Book Den - meeting the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking. It's 75 years ago that Pippi was published, just after the lockdown of wartime. https://t.co/Mr92IMHqll

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39.) GIGA, launching in July, has seen mechs piloted and worshiped at wartime, and investigates what their place in society is during times of peace—and what happens when one of those metal war-gods dies mysteriosuly. This book looks stunning, and I am extremely excited.

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We would love to see your reviews on the books you have read in the only. Here is today's review from our staff ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ by Louis de Bernières 'A Greek Island love story set in wartime’

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In 1940 Hopper mused about seeking solace during wartime in a passage that resonates today:

“Painting seems to be a good enough refuge from all this, if one can get one’s dispersed mind together long enough to concentrate upon it.”

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Day 16: Least favorite design

Because we all know that all the girls in wartime looked like a tsundere one from the anime about loli who drink tea

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Rhodes' wartime journal and letters were published by one of his great-grandsons under the title "All For the Union" in 1985. His writings were prominently featured in ' film "The Civil War" on in 1990.

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did a parody of a UK wartime poster from WW2! stay indoors unless you really have to leave, everyone!!

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"It was the wartime winter of 1939 in Finland. One's work came to a standstill; it seemed quite impossible to try to make pictures. Perhaps it is understandable that I suddenly wanted to write something beginning with 'Once upon a time...'"

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'In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz' will be our new art exhibition. Opening on Friday 27/03 at the RAF Museum London, it explores artists’ responses to this wartime period as Julia Beaumont-Jones explains in her blog: https://t.co/1nyeLto94z

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'In Air and Fire: War Artists, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz' will be our new art exhibition. Opening on Friday 27/03 at the RAF Museum London, it explores artists’ responses to this wartime period as Julia Beaumont-Jones explains in her blog: https://t.co/1nyeLto94z

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"Io sono il Capo delle Forze dell'Ordine americane..."
(Trump si dichiara Capo del Dipartimento di Giustizia. In democrazia, potere esecutivo e giudiziario DEVONO essere separati, sennò è una dittatura)


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