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Date Added:1 April 2011

London's Olympic history comes to life

New website brings to life archives of rare photographs, newspaper articles, documents and ephemera of London's Olympic past

Program for the Olympic Games 1905 London, Olympic Archives Project

Program for the Olympic Games 1905 London, Olympic Archives Project

Over 1,700 images of London's previous Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948, together with British Olympians and Paralympians throughout history, can be seen for the first time on a new website http://www.winningendeavours.org/. The website includes many unseen images that have been taken from archival documents, newspapers, journals and ephemera currently in the care of the British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and 23 other archival repositories in London and the South East of England.

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