#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 […]
Interested in quirky facts about the British Royal Family and rare historic stock photos? Here’s one amazing fact for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: he is worshipped as a god in the South Pacific. […]
