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A group of B Specials from Killowen

Loyalists’ houses attacked: B Special is murdered (1922)

A group of RIC men pictured circa 1914. Picture: News Letter archives

Churchill urged to save disbanded RIC from death (1922)

Mr Colin Anderson, chairman of LEDU with Mr John Waddell, former chairman, at the opening of an exhibition to mark the 10th anniversary of the Local Enterprise Development Unit in September 1981. They are seen admiring the work of Mr James McKillop, a violin maker from Carnlough, Co Antrim. Picture: News Letter archives

£460 violin is bought at Fintona auction for young musician (1962)

Photo taken on May 17, 2018, as mountaineers make their way to the summit of Mount Everest, as they ascend on the south face from Nepal. Photo by PHUNJO LAMA/AFP via Getty Images

Colonel Pottinger lectures on Mount Everest attempts (1921)

Lyra McKee died after being shot in Creggan in 2019.

GAA remains silent for seven days after dissident republican parade

Ulster golfer Darren Clarke being coached by Bob Torrance at Royal Portrush in April 1994. Picture: Pacemaker Press

Golf club declares ‘war’ on rabbits (August 1950)

Singer Paul Robeson testifies in Washington June 12, 1956, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Robeson, who also excelled as a lawyer, athlete and scholar, risked everything to become a human rights activist, and his visits with supporters in the Soviet Union were a cardinal sin in the red-baiting McCarthy era. (AP Photo/Bill Achatz)

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Former Communist spy’s evidence before US inquiry

Straw bales near Loughbrickland. Picture: Alan Hopps, Markethill

News Letter demands action on “useless dogs” (August 1824)

Roe plays the Stevie Martin Stage at Stendhal 2019. Pic: Ciara McMullan

Hopes high as NI music festivals prepare for the summer as lockdown eases

David Lloyd George statue next to Caernarfon Castle, Wales

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Distillers and allied traders urge chancellor to rescind i...

Bridge Street showing First Presbyterian Church, Portadown, Co Armagh. NLI Ref: EAS_0093. Picture: National Library of Ireland

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Damage to Portadown national school could have been preven...

A Royal visit was a handy excuse for missing lessons at Deramore High School in March 1991 when Prince Charles paid a visit to Northern Ireland. Pictures: Trevor Dickson and Cecil McCausland/News Letter archives

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Security blunder as Prince Charles pays a ‘surprise’ visit...

Cookstown 100 race secretary Norman Crooks with his British Empire Medal on the Cookstown 100 course in Co Tyrone. Picture: Baylon McCaughey.

Serving the Cookstown 100 road races is an honour for devoted volunteer Norman C...

Belfast Royal Hospital in Frederick Street: the courtyard. Watercolour. Picture: Wellcome Trust (https://wellcome.org/press-release/thousands-years-visual-culture-made-free-through-wellcome-images)

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of March 1991

The famed Dervock preacher, sheepbreeder and storyteller the Reverend Robert John McIlmoyle with one of his 'flocks'. His other 'flock' was his congregation at Knockavallen. He was for a long time minister at the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Knockavallen

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Dervock tenant-rights meeting agrees petition to Parliamen...

Device for instructing officers on how poteen was made at the Police Museum at Knock Headquarters. Picture: Declan Roughan/Presseye/News Letter archives

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: A blow is struck in fight against poteen traffic in south ...

Leaders of unionism, Sir James Craig and Sir Edward Carson. In a letter to the widow of Mr William Waring, the caretaker of the Clifton Street Orange Hall, who had been killed by a Sinn Feiner in February 1922 the private secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir James Craig, wrote: “Dear Mrs Waring – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland wishes me to convey to you his deepest sympathy in your terrible loss. He is inexpressibly shocked and distressed at the treacherous death of your dear husband at the hands of brutal assassins.”

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Impressive funeral scenes as the toll of the gunmen rises

Trevor Shields from Kilkeel, Co Down, exhibited the champion Red Star and performance tested boars at the autumn show and sale of pigs held at Balmoral in October 1989. Mr Shields received his cups from Colin Rea, centre, who judged the two sections, and S Duffield Gibson, president of the Royal Agricultural Society. Picture: Randall Mulligan/Farming Life archives

BYGONE DAYS: Threatening letter to Lord O’Neill is condemned by tenantry

Main Street, Markethill, Co Armagh. Picture: News Letter archives

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: School master takes legal action against Protestant minist...

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots wrote a joint letter to the UK government claiming it was cutting £34m in rural funding to NI.

Brandon Lewis and Edwin Poots in stand-off over £34m agriculture cuts

Some of those involved in the construction of Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast. Does anyone recognise anyone in this old photo? Did anyone in your family help build Stormont? Get in touch, email: darryl.armitage@jpimedia.co.uk. Picture: News Letter archives

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of November 1875

The village of Tempo in Co Fermanagh

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Bridge was three feet to low, court is told

A British soldier keeps watch on 'No-Man's land' as his comrades sleep in a captured German trench at Ovillers, near Albert, during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Great War exhibition to open at municipal museum

News Letter’s Graeme Cousins has been told to quarantine for 14 days

Mystery of Covid close contact alert which leads to quarantine for News Letter r...

On this day in 1958 the News Letter reported that two Shackleton aircraft from Aldergrove failed to locate a lifeboat reported to be adrift from a Russian trawler which had sunk in heavy seas of the rocks of the Shetland Islands

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Ulster planes in day long search for Russian trawlermen

Amateur photographer Ivan Skinner took the striking photo during 13 weeks self-isolating in his family caravan.

Revealed ... mystery ‘couple’ in pier photo

An old postcard showing Donaghadee harbour

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Tragic railway accident near Donaghadee leaves father and ...

flight crew of a Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V twin-engined, front line medium bomber of 102 Squadron 4 Group Bomber Operations Royal Air Force prior to taking off on a leaflet-dropping ('Nickelling') sortie over Germany on 8 March 1940 from RAF Driffield near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Bombs 'of heaviest type' dropped on Germany ny British and...

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: 'We are quite able to look after ourselves,' warns Orange ...

An Ulster film crew were set to join a dangerous 4,000-mile mercy mission to deepest Africa, reported the News Letter on this day in 1979. But before the four man crew, which included John Davis, Alywn James, Derek Boden and Ross Graham from Holywood Films Ltd, had a chance to leave home shores for the almost unknown Africa country of Upper Volta (modern day Burkina Faso) they appealed through the News Letter for help with sponsorship

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: 'Movie mercy mission' to Africa for Ulster filmmakers

The Duke of Edinburgh inspects a Champion Bull at the 1996 Balmoral Show. Picture: News Letter archives

Bygone Days: Repairs to farm houses grants scale to be reviewed

On this day in 1922 the News Letter reported that large forces of Provisional Government troops who were reinforced by irregulars had made an attack on the Belleek-Pettigo sector of Co Fermanagh

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Rebels shot dead as republican gunmen ‘invade’ Fermanagh

Portrait of Sir Edward Carson by John Lavery (1916). A note referred to the leader of unionists in Ulster, Sir Edward Carson, it read: Send the bill to Sir Edward Carson.

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Attack on golf greens in Belfast blamed on suffragists

ClaireMcConville was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer last year

Craigavon mum: Postponement of my cancer treatment makes me sick with worry, as ...

Rev Andrew Rawding taking party in Newry Pride in 2019.

Clerics oppose NI’s first rural LGBT+ parade

Anger over farm fraudster ruling