Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 3rd - William Joyce ('Lord Haw Haw') was hanged for treason in the UK
• January 5th A week in the life of..
• January 30th - The inaugural ceremony of the UN General Assembly opened in London. Trygve Lie elected secretary-general
• February - Rationing gets worse. Butter , margarine and cooking fat was cut from 8 oz (226 gm) to 7 oz (200g) a week. The Ministry of food helpfully circulated a recipe for Squirrel Pie
• April 5th - Lovely Cottage won the first post-war Grand National Race and Airborne won the Derby
• May - Winston Churchill addresses Congress at Fulton, Missouri.."A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory....From Stettin to the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has has descended across the continent"
• June 8th - declared a public holiday in the UK as Victory Day to celebrate the end of the entire war
• June 30th - America exploded an Atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It cost £8 million to build
• July 22nd - Jewish dissidents blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
• July - Bread was now rationed in the UK due to the parlous economic state. Britians debts had risen from £500 million before the war to £3.5 Billion at the end of the war and now had to go cap in hand to the Americans for a loan
• October - At the Nazi war Criminal trial in Nuremberg - Hermann Goering, Ribbentrop and 11 others were condemned to be hanged. Rudolf hess was given a life sentence. Goering committed suicide by taking cyanide.
• December 19th - Hostilities broke out against the French in Indochina
• The Bank of England, Coal and other industries were Nationalised

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February 16th

• Guarded cells at Nuremberg
• The housewife's Problem: Weekly food rations for one person
• The menace of the roads: Casualties which must be prevented
• The Drifting mine: Hazardous work on our gale-swept beaches
• An episode of the recent winter storms: drama in the routine work of ocean-going tugs - with a happy ending (painting by Frank Mason)
• The Sun as a colossal radio transmitter: the sun-spot "beam"
• SS Queen Elizabeth feature
• England's worst floods for thrity years feature
• Aftermath of the war: Greece and the United Kingdom
• Masterpieces of Greek Art 8000BC to 1944 AD at the Royal Academy feature
  

February 23rd

• Princess Elizabeth and a sepia centrefold photo of her with Princess Margaret,
• illustrated articles on the ruins of Berlin Zoo,
• 26th Indian Division of the Army,
• The renaissance of British clock and watch making industry,
• Magnetic mines and new types of Navy mines
• Earloops of natives in Tanganyika
• Centerfold drawings of the evolution of British aircraft Carriers into modern capital ships

March 2nd

• The gigantic aircraft-carrier made of ice: HMS Habbakuk compared with HMS indefatigable (2 x double page feature)
• The Mutiny at Bombay (see pictures; four pages including picture of Gandhi arriving in Bombay)
• The Re-opening of Covent Garden 'Sleeping Beauty' feature
• Studies of bees and beekeeping feature
• The Ceremony of presenting red hats to the new cardinals: impressive scenes in the Vatican City (two page photographic feature)
• Pneumatic decoy tanks and army lorries photo feature
• Personalities of the week including Sir Stafford Cripps
• Anti-british rioting in Cairo photo feature

Egypian discoveries photo feature

The Maori battalion welcomed home photo-feature

Osterley Park for the nation from Lord Jersey photo feature

Cyprus - wartime discoveries feature

The radar of the bat feature

and more

many adverts include Sunbeam-Talbot 'The Ten and 2-litre), 'why can't I buy Dunlop Golf Balls', Moss Bros, The New Lagonda 2.5 litre drophead coupe

March 16th

• Fire on board the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Elizabeth, just as she was completing her last voyage as a troop carrier during the war.
• The worst disaster in the history of British football', at Burnden Park, Bolton. The event occured at a cup-tie between Bolton and Stoke when a crowd surge caused the death of 33 people, and injured many more.
• Battleship HMS Nelson leaving Portland for manoeuvres.

July 27th

• Features -George Bernard Shaw

September 28th

Vol 209, No 5606

• Mr Henry Wallace's resignation
• Squatting, article by Arthur Bryant

Photos of Ceremonies, demonstrations and departures

Aeronautical news & photos

Personalities and Events of the Week & photos

Model Car Racing at Stanbridge & photos

'Britain Can Make It' exhibition

Article: Aftermath of War: Dowding on the Battle of Britain (II)

Home News in Pictures

Ballet photos: Les Sylphides at Alexandra Palace - 2 pages

Pilgrimage to Arnhem - 2 pages

Syntheic Sapphires & pics - 2 pages

Article on Peripatus

Thickness of the earth's Crust

Article: Three Years with Eisenhower by Capt. H C Butcher, USNR

The Modern Warship

The Return of King George II to Greece

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