Arts > Photo > UK > John Topham   1908-1992

The Broads, Norfolk, 1934

A pre-war summer holiday on a canal barge.

Photograph: John Topham

England at war, work and play – in pictures

From peashooting women to British troops in drag,

Kent photographer John Topham captured his country from the 1920s

through to the end of the second world war

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Thu 10 Jun 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/10/
england-at-war-work-and-play-in-pictures

John Topham    1908-1992

From peashooting women

to British troops in drag,

Kent photographer

John Topham

captured his country

from the 1920s

through to the end

of the second world war

(...)

Topham amassed 121,228 negatives

including 20,000 glass negatives

of his earliest work

before selling his entire collection,

with all rights, to TopFoto in 1975.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/10/
england-at-war-work-and-play-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/10/
england-at-war-work-and-play-in-pictures

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