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Victory in Europe Day / VE Day

‘There was this explosion of light:
brightness was everywhere.
And excitement, laughter, joy.
The world would never be the same.’
Crowds celebrate in Piccadilly Circus, London
Photograph: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL
via Getty
VE Day was the spark for change.
Coronavirus could be too
I remember the euphoria of 8 May 1945,
and the push for a fairer society that followed.
The parallels today are striking
G
Fri 8 May 2020 06.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/08/
ve-day-coronavirus-1945

Winston Churchill
on the balcony of the Ministry of Health building
in
Whitehall, London.
VE Day, May 1945, in London.
Photograph:
Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
Bettmann/Corbis
VE Day:
what the end of the war was like for those who were
there
G
Friday 8 May 2015 10.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/
ve-day-what-the-end-of-the-war-was-like-for-those-who-were-there

Londoners celebrate
Photograph:
ANL/Daily Mail/REX/Shutterstock
Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in
pictures
A selection of archive photographs
to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
G
Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

Londoners celebrate
Photograph: Francis Reiss/Getty Images
Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in
pictures
A selection of archive photographs
to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
G
Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

Crowds celebrating VE day
on 8 May 1945, London,
the end of the second world war, in Europe
Photograph: Hulton Archive
VE Day 70 years on: share your photos and memories
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Monday 20 April 2015 16.21 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/
ve-day-70-years-on-share-your-photos-and-memories

Women dance with US soldiers in a London street
Photograph:
Photo 12/Universal Images
Group/Getty Images
Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in
pictures
A selection of archive photographs
to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
G
Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

A V-shaped table for a children’s party in south London
Photograph:
Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images
Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in
pictures
A selection of archive photographs
to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day
G
Fri 8 May 2020 07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures

http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html

VE Day, The Guardian, 8 May 1945.
See the full page:
https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2020/05/05/8_May_1945.jpg
VE Day: 'We have won the right to hope' - archive, May 1945
How the Guardian the reported wartime victory
and the ending of hostilities in Europe on 8 May 1945
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Wed 6 May 2020 11.24 BST
Last modified on Thu 7 May 2020 11.18 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/may/06/
ve-day-stopped-onrush-of-evil-guardian-reports-1945
The Daily Mirror
8 May, 1945
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/frames.asp?
http%3A//www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
MOLsite/londonsvoices/veday/mainmenu.asp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ve-day
https://www.theguardian.com/world/secondworldwar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
veday_germany_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/8/
newsid_3580000/3580163.stm
https://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/08/
never-give-up-never-despair-the-queens-ve-day-message
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/07/
magazine/ve-day-anniversary.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/08/
ve-day-coronavirus-1945
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/may/08/
dancing-in-the-streets-ve-day-celebrations-in-1945-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/
we-should-remember-the-real-spirit-of-ve-day
https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/may/06/
ve-day-stopped-onrush-of-evil-guardian-reports-1945
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/
ve-day-churchill-feared-de-gaulle-would-declare-victory-early
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/apr/19/
the-second-world-war-in-colour-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/aug/14/
ve-day-london-colour-amateur-footage-video
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/may/08/-ve-day-sketches-70-years
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/
ve-day-what-the-end-of-the-war-was-like-for-those-who-were-there
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/07/
guardian-view-europe-seventy-years-nazis-new-vision
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/ve-day-celebrations-second-world-war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/ve-day-60th-anniversary
https://www.theguardian.com/gall/0,8542,1476330,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22106,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/may/09/secondworldwar.queenmother
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Hundreds of images of war art including posters
and a portrait of the future queen are released online
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Ministry of Food Posters
A new exhibition
at London's Imperial War Museum (Feb 12 to Jan 3 2011)
pays tribute to a nation's creativity and resourcefulness
in the face of wartime
– and peacetime – food rationing.
Here is some of the eye-catching
British Government propaganda
used on the
'Kitchen Front' during that time.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/7165696/
Vintage-Ministry-of-Food-posters.html
The following posters
were all
used during the Second World War
to encourage austerity and stoicism
on Britain's home front.
They form part of an exhibition
at the Museum of Brands in London
entitled Make
Do and Mend
(www.museumofbrands.com ;
020
79080880; 2 Colville Mews, Lonsdale Road,
Notting Hill, London W11 2AR).
The exhibition runs until November 29, 2010.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/
Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html
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