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Archive File

Photographs and positive strips of 'Marat Sade' by Peter Weiss

1986

6 outsize black and white photographs

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Archive Print Item

Draft programme to be submitted to the 16th Party Congress, Town Hall, Stoke Newington, London, October 7th, 8th and 9th, 1939

Communist Party of Great Britain. National congress

1939

There was also a 16th congress held in 1943.

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Feeding the hungry (fol. 48v)
Archive Piece

Feeding the hungry (fol. 48v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

The border is historiated with a scene of two men holding plates towards a window of a house from which a group of figures looks out. A face can also be seen appearing in the window on the upper floor...

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Coat of arms (fol. 107r)
Archive Piece

Coat of arms (fol. 107r)

[ca. 1425]

The 5-line initial 'B' is decorated with a coat of arms: three unidentified charges in black (sable) on a red (gules) field. Bar-frame border of gold and blue/rose vine, decorated with diamond motifs,...

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Archive Sub-series

Season

1985-1986

Photographic materials from productions from season 1985-1986. 1 colour outsize photograph, 14 outsize black and white photographs

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