Yoko Ono at 90
Selected images at TopFoto Yoko Ono will be 90 years old on 18 February 2023 Yoko Ono is being widely reassessed as a hugely significant and trailblazing artist and feminist (eg see New York Times […]
Selected images at TopFoto Yoko Ono will be 90 years old on 18 February 2023 Yoko Ono is being widely reassessed as a hugely significant and trailblazing artist and feminist (eg see New York Times […]
June 1947 – Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod – 75 year Anniversary 29 May 1953 – British Mount Everest Expedition reached the summit – 70 Year Anniversary May 1923 – Le Mans 24 hour race – […]
The young Queen’s first State Opening of Parliament, the first Queen to do so since 1886 Charles Dawson, photographer and WW2 soldier, was born in south-east London in 1917. He won worldwide acclaim for this […]
The Queen said, ‘So soon, Mr Hedgecoe? Don’t you want to do some more?’ ” In 1966 Professor Dick Guyatt at the Royal College of Art recommended me to do a portrait of the Queen […]
In 1954 a humble civil servant at the Russian Embassy in Australia stunned the world when he defected from the Soviet Union with his wife, revealing that he was head of a spy ring with […]
In 1298, London’s coopers – skilled men who made casks – were hauled up in front of the authorities and fined “for contempt of King and Mayor” because they’d single-handedly introduced an ordinance to raise […]
#WindrushDay: 23rd June 2021 Rommi Smith, TopFoto, Writer-in-Residence Today is #WindrushDay. I am writing this on the seventy-eighth anniversary of the arrival of The Empire Windrush to Tilbury Docks. It’s a poignant moment in British […]
Replaying the Record: Flipping the Script by Rommi Smith, TopFoto archive Writer-in-Residence 29 April 2021 Record comes from the Latin word recordari – the term cor meaning heart. The stylus on the record player might, […]
by Rommi Smith: TopFoto Archive Writer-in-Residence, 8 April 2021 Here, really begins in the early spring of 2019. I am attending the first British American Project (BAP) writers’ retreat and I am making a cup […]
Looking for historic images relating to The Crown? Separate truth from fiction and license images to tell the true story When did Lord Altrincham get punched? 6 August 1957, London, and a dramatic moment in […]