Undernourished boys carrying all their luggage in a paper parcel.
Dutch refugee children crowd to look over the side of the ship as it berths, upon arrival in Britain, at Tilbury docks.
A Dutch school teacher leads a group of refugee children away from the ship upon which they have just arrived. They have berthed at Tilbury Docks in Essex, and will be taken to a rest centre, before onward transport to a hostel.
At a rest centre in Tilbury, a newly-arrived Dutch refugee has her knee dressed by her teacher. According to the original caption, she bruised her knee whilst on board the ship.
A small Dutch boy smiles for the camera upon arrival at Tilbury in Essex. He is carrying a small paper parcel under his arm, which contains all his luggage. He, and the other children all have labels pinned to their coats which bear their names, home address and destination.
Upon arrival at Tilbury docks, a group of young Dutch refugee children wait on the quayside. Some of the children look quite worried. The original caption states that the smallest boy in the photograph is 7-year-old Fritsje, and he is one of the youngest of the refugees.
View of the festivities as Dutch children sit at rows of tables to enjoy a feast in the evening before they leave Warmsworth Camp.
The Dutch principal, leaders and English staff have saved all kinds of delicacies for this meal so that the children would have something to remember
At a rest centre in Tilbury, a group of Dutch refugee children enjoy a second breakfast. Two boys are holding up a large flag which has the name of their village on it: Breda.
Young Dutch boys at play in their dormitory just before bed time at Warmsworth Camp, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. Some of the boys have shinned up the central poles of the Nissen hut in which they are staying.
Excited Dutch children with kitbags and wearing labels wait for a coach.
The children had been in England for two months. They were leaving the camp, after a day of celebrations, to live as guests in the homes of private families.
I didn't think this needed clarification but just in case; I used the original IWM description of the photos, so even though they were called refugees then they're technically not refugees in the modern sense.
They were on a temporary visit to recuperate from war & famine.
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A few days ago I complained about a Guardian article using a bad photo from a film in an article about Joan Clarke, a Bletchley Park code breaker, but... something much worse might have happened...
I don't think this photo they used is of Joan...
@TeaKayB pointed this out to me and I was stunned, surely not, that would be extraordinary sloppy.
So I looked into it, of course.
For starters the image they used is flipped, here's the full picture as it should look:
Time to look at another photo album in my collection, a tiny one this time with one picture on each page, showing us the adventures of some Dutch girl scouts in the early 1930s.
This Friday the game 'Manor Lord' is coming out, it's a medieval city builder that I've made a modest contribution to as a historical consultant and beta tester for.
I've been very excited about it for a long time and I'm not the only one, it's creating quite a buzz and has ended up on a lot of wishlists.
What I love about it most is that it tries to depict the middle ages in an accurate way, behind the scenes historians, experts & history addicts have been debating the tiniest details.
I think the result is one of the most historically accurate medieval games I've ever played.
#Manorlords
So let's have a sneak peek at it shall we?
First, here's an official video:
Before you start you set up your profile and design your own family crest, look familiar?
This bit alone is SUCH fun, you can fiddle and play with this editor for ages till you get exactly what you want and then you'll see it on the banners in the game!
SUCH FUN!
Sigh.
An account with half a million followers just tweeted that long debunked 'life in the 1500s' nonsense, 2.2 million people have seen it.
So here we go again...