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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 2h
Some of our archive team are The Times Square tent at the Cheltenham Literature Festival today showing photographs and letters from the amazing @thetimes.com archive. Visitors are enjoying the exhibition. #cheltlitfest #archives #photography #penandportrait #authors
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Online today for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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Dancing the night away with a postwar craze or two
From rock ’n’ roll to the twist, couples took to the floor at the Lyceum in London in the Fifties and Sixties to try out the latest moves
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Latest archive feature for The Times online now. @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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In pictures: the Barbican estate’s brutalist beginnings
The backdrop for Slow Horses on Apple TV is preparing for a 50th-anniversary redevelopment. The Times saw it transform from a bombsite to a London icon
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This was fun... www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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Behind the scenes of Picle, our picture-perfect hit game
The Times and Sunday Times archive is being used to turn readers into detectives scanning skylines and hemlines to guess where and when photographs were taken
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Online today, step back in time to #Wimbledon fashions from @thetimes.com photo archive by @mjjjennings.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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The Wimbledon Fashions
Whether on or off the tennis courts, Wimbledon has always served up some memorable fashion statements — which are perfectly illustrated here from the Times archives
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force #WAAF in the Hall of #Versailles, 1944. Taken by Pool for @thetimes.com on 06.06.1994 - the same day of the first D-Day landings in Normandy #US-IranAgreement #PalaceofVersailles #TreatyofVersailles #WWI #WWII
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our latest dip into the vast @thetimes.com archive - this month on youth clubs! www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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Teenage kicks: London’s lost youth clubs in pictures
Our archive images allow a glimpse into the spaces helping to shape the lives of young people in the postwar capital
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Queen Elizabeth II: a life in great Times photographs
Our new book marks the centenary of her birth by revealing rarely seen pictures. Here are 21 of the best
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Our latest archive feature from @thetimes.com went up online last night and it well hidden in the world section - but have a look now so photographs from #Iran in 1971 and 1972 www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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Guerrillas at the feast: a glimpse inside Iran before the revolution
Our journalists saw the Shah’s extravagant empire from the inside, then risked their lives to document Iraq’s ‘dumping of 60,000 Persians’
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp... my latest archive piece on Iran
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Guerrillas at the feast: a glimpse inside Iran before the revolution
Our journalists saw the Shah’s extravagant empire from the inside, then risked their lives to document the ‘dumping of 60,000 Persians’
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The Joy of Reading for The Sunday Times today: www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
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The UK’s love of reading, told in great Sunday Times photographs
Even the Blitz didn’t stop us grabbing a book, comic or newspaper — this journey through the decades celebrates a habit we’re at risk of losing
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Online tonight @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...
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The UK’s love of reading, told in great Sunday Times photographs
Even the Blitz didn’t stop us grabbing a book, comic or newspaper — this journey through the decades celebrates a habit we’re at risk of losing
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Publication day for the second in our series of #photography book curated from our own vast photo archive @thetimes.com Elizabeth. #archives timesbookshop.co.uk/the-times-el...
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The Times Elizabeth in Photos
From daring fiction to page-turning history, the Times Bookshop features over 350,000 titles, with curated recommendations from our literary experts.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 16/02/2026
When ski jumping came to Hampstead Heath — in pictures
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When ski jumping came to Hampstead Heath — in pictures
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Latest from the archive, Ski Jumping in Hampstead 1950 #winterolympics @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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When ski jumping came to Hampstead Heath — in pictures
Leap into the Times archive to discover a spectacle of international sporting co-operation that brought Cup-tie sized crowds to a north London park in 1950
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Well this was fun tonight, great to talk to so many subscribers who enjoy the archive
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@andydawson.bsky.social u at the top flight time machine derby tomorrow? @delaneyman.bsky.social
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Join Jeremy Griffin, executive editor of @thetimes.com and Times Radio on the evening of Thur February 5th, to experience the world beyond the headlines. MJ from the archive will share some stories from the vaults in the 2nd segment, last few tickets here: www.thetimes.com/events/times...
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Inside the Newsroom: February edition
Get ready for sharp insights, lively debate, and a celebration of high-quality reporting, in the home of trusted journalism.We’re opening the doors to The News Building once more for the latest
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Morning all. Outside the Divis Flats, Belfast, 1978. Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Morning all. Photographer Shirley Baker, Moss Side, Manchester, 1968.
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Latest archive online now! www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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Venezuela in flux: archive pictures capture snapshot of 1977
After a tumultuous start to the year for the country, we delve into a special dispatch from a changing Caracas almost half a century ago
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
@delaneyman.bsky.social @profanityswan.bsky.social have u heard that Josh Widdecombe punting his new podcast a 4 hr deep dive into Blobby?!
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp... Christmas #archive #christmas
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Memories of Christmas past — in pictures
Delve into the Times archive to explore a century of festive celebrations, from carols at a Second World War bomb site to Santa’s shift at Harrods
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Anyone who subscribes to @thetimes.com and enjoys our regular features on the Photo archives at The Times might enjoy this event in 2026. MJ will be taking part in the 2nd half of the Inside the Newsroom, a chance to meet some of the regular commenting community. www.thetimes.com/events/times...
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Inside the Newsroom: February edition
Get ready for sharp insights, lively debate, and a celebration of high-quality reporting, in the home of trusted journalism.We’re opening the doors to The News Building once more for the latest
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Online today from the archive @thetimes.com #Greyhoundracing www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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Going to the dogs? A history of greyhound racing — in pictures
As a documentary examines the state of the sport in Britain after almost 100 years, we explore its past, with images from the Times archive
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp... online today! #archives
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Going to the dogs? A history of greyhound racing — in pictures
As a documentary examines the state of the sport in Britain after almost 100 years, we explore its past, with images from the Times archive
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Friday!
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
You might also like these: In 1979 Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon created a pop-up photography studio on the street outside a terraced house in Grove Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham. Instead of taking the photos themselves, they invited passers-by to take their own photograph...
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Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On - 1854 Photography
When Derek Bishton, John Reardon, and Brian Homer set up a photography and design agency in the late 1970s in Handsworth, a multicultural, inner-city district of Birmingham, they were viewed with susp...
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Up online now from the photo archive vaults of @thetimes.com images of #Handsworth @desdelboy.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...
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A history of Handsworth through a Times photographer’s lens
After Robert Jenrick’s complaint that he did not see ‘another white face’ in the Birmingham suburb, images from the last century paint a different picture
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Hiya @desdelboy.bsky.social you might enjoy today archive gallery www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp... @mjjjennings.bsky.social
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London’s pearly kings and queens: 150 years in pictures
With their annual harvest festival and a new exhibition, the pearlies honour a tradition that has endured since Henry Croft stitched his first suit
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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Its a lovely book. Great work by my former colleague @mjjjennings.bsky.social and the team.
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Bargain photography book from @thetimes.com photo archive. In advance of Christmas, a perfect gift. #London timesbookshop.co.uk/the-times-lo...
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The Times London in Photos
From daring fiction to page-turning history, the Times Bookshop features over 350,000 titles, with curated recommendations from our literary experts.
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Proud of this set humming the Christy Moore song Lisdoonvarna as i look at them
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Somewhere on The Times website and app now
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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
EXC - New material has been found concerning Queen Victoria & her servant John Brown Historian @drfernriddell.bsky.social is confident her research demonstrates their romance & believes the pair wed... And she's found someone who could be their secret descendant www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
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Queen Victoria, her ‘secret love child’ and me
For Angela Webb-Milinkovich it was a dinner-party story, but a historian believes the carer from Minnesota may descend from Victoria and a beloved servant
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
From the archive #oasis @thetimes.com britpop summer 1996 #oasislive25 www.thetimes.com/article/53be...
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Oasis at Knebworth during the Britpop summer of 1996 — in pictures
Noel and Liam Gallagher’s unwavering confidence and sense of mischief was on full display during their record-breaking concerts in Hertfordshire to 250,000 fans
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Oasis from the archives #oasis #Knebworth online now www.thetimes.com/article/53be...
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Oasis at Knebworth during the Britpop summer of 1996 — in pictures
Noel and Liam Gallagher’s unwavering confidence and sense of mischief was on full display during their record-breaking concerts in Hertfordshire to 250,000 fans
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The archives team hosted a pop up exhibition in the canteen of our HQ today to promote the recently acquired Douglas Glass collection. Lots of interested colleagues stopped by to hear about the images.
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Leigh Art Trail is on until saturday, im in venue 20 showing photos. Come to sunny Leigh-on-Sea #photography #Leigharttrail this pic from #Deal pier could look great on a wall
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mjjjennings.bsky.social @mjjjennings.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Im back doing the #leigharttrail this summer in leigh on sea starts this saturday! Come and say hi www.michaeljohnjennings.com/leigh-art-tr...
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Leigh Art Trail 2025 - Michael John Jennings's Portfolio
Leigh Art Trail 2025 on Michael John Jennings's Portfolio
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Another terrific archive piece from @mjjjennings.bsky.social and the @newsukarchives.bsky.social team #photography #london #archives
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Online now www.thetimes.com/article/ba70... Oxford Street in the 1970s, experiments with car bans. Great photos from @thetimes archive. #oxfordstreet #london #oldlondon #highstreet
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When cars were banned from Oxford Street in the 1970s — in pictures
The famous shopping street, long blighted by congestion and pollution, experimented with reducing traffic to give pedestrians and shoppers room to breathe
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This month’s brilliant archive piece by @mjjjennings.bsky.social and @newsukarchives.bsky.social team made me think of Tish Murtha’s wonderful photography Behind a pay wall but if you have a subscription this is such an enjoyable distraction from the rest of the news #photography #archives
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Our latest photo archive piece online now for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
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How we used to play: the days before health and safety in pictures
As experts decry modern childhood’s reliance on screens, swing back to the 1970s with pictures from the Times archive
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When Rodeo came to London. It must have been such eye-opening, incredible experience to be in crowd Another fascinating dip into the Times photographic archive…
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Helen Eccles @heleneccles.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@marcaspland.bsky.social and @mjjjennings.bsky.social you might enjoy this if you haven’t come across it already
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News UK Archives @newsukarchives.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
www.thetimes.com/article/fest... May themed archive gallery now online for @thetimes.com
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Festivals, flowers and football — how Britain went nuts for May
From May Day celebrations to spring days out at the seaside, we take a nostalgic journey through the Times archive
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