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When time stood still...
...in reverse date order....
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London: 8.50 am, 7th September, 2005.
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New York 9/11: the media coverage; minute by minute...
Essential record and resource. Television news programs recorded live on September 11, 2001 by the non-profit Television Archive. See how CNN, BBC, ABC, Fox, CNN, CBS and NBC carried the news as it unfolded regularly from 8.48am - two minutes after the first impact - through 9/11 and the following days. There is also a summary of news coverage. Can you find a newscast for the time you first heard of the attacks of 11th September?
The videos are streamed and strictly for non-commercial research purposes only. There are also a useful set of links, using the Wayback Machine, to analysis of events made in 2001 - very helpful for Media Studies. There is also a good timeline of the events.
The videos are hosted on the Internet Archive and are available at either:
:: Intenet Archive 9/11
:: Television Archive 9/11
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New York 9/11: 8. 46 am, 11th September, 2001
0846 Eastern Daylight Time New York - 9/11
The time the first aircraft crashed into the twin Towers, New York on 11th September 2001.
:: 9/11? 9 is for ninth month; 11 for the 11th day.
9/11 - Moments of Silence
:: 8.46 am when the North Tower was hit
:: 9.03 am when the South Tower was hit
:: 10.29 am when the North Tower fell.
See also
:: The Sonic Memorial Project on Kitchen Sisters public radio
:: 'Ground Zero' on Google Maps. Gound Zero. Click on the image to see 360 degree panorama; click on tabs to see map, satellite and terrain views.
Image of the New York skyline after the attacks by Wally Gobetz on Flickr. Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND
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Manchester: the recent past
Clock on derelict building corner of Swan Street and Rochdale Road, Manchester. The clock looks 60's style? It stopped sometime in the not too distant past.
Most of the clocks and watches in When Time Stood Still are ones associated with famous events, but time stands still for someone every second of every minute...and there might be a stopped clock just around the corner from where you are.
Photograph reproduced with permisson of and thanks to Stuart Davis. View the original on Flickr.
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Prague '68: 12.22 pm, 21st August 1968
On 21st August 1968 Russian tanks are approaching Prague. A young photographer sits on a high building overlooking Wenceslas Square. He asks another rooftopper to hold out his wrist showing his watch along the bottom of what he sees through his viewfinder; above the hand is an eerily, silent street - empty waiting for first sight of the Russian tanks; he presses the shutter..it is 12.22 pm...time is frozen; a moment is preserved.
The photographs he took that day became a definitive record of the Russian invasion and were smuggled out of Czechoslovakia and published round the world under the byline PP - Prague Photographer. Much later - in 1984! - it is revealed that PP is Josef Koudelka.
Years later Koudelka met people he had photographed in '68 including the man with the wristwatch. "It was a long time ago and I did not really remember them or they me. You cannot rely on your memories - but you can rely on yur pictures." Quoted in '100 Years of Great Photography - 1960s: Guardian, 2009.
:: More about Koudelka with photographs of the resistance to the invasion at Magnum
Photograph is copyright Josef Koudelka and the "Scan (i.e. the image) is courtesy of Masters of Photography". Please do not copy the image from here but go to the source at Masters of Photography Koudelka and read their conditions of use for education.
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The Munich clock: 3 minutes past 3, 6th February, 1958
Why is there a special clock at Old Trafford, Manchester United’s ground?
Legend has it that it is stopped at the time of the crash - 15.03 - but it is actually a working clock - time passes.
:: See a picture at http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/ic9/78.html
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Nagasaki: 11.02 am, 9th August 1945
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Hiroshima: 8.15am, 6th August, 1945
Eight fifteen a.m. - Hiroshima
There are photographs of a wristwatch and a pocket watch found after the blast with the hands recording the time of H-bomb impacted on the city of Hiroshima.
:: See a picture of the: Hiroshima watch
:: Search Pathe archive "Hiroshima".
:: Sound file of Truman's radio announcement of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan. Truman's radio announcement. There are also links to the full speech and the text of it - all in the public domain.
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Dresden: 2.30pm, February 14th, 1945,
2.30, February 14th 1945, Dresden
The bombing of Dresden took place on 14th and 15th of February. The time of 2.30pm. was noted by the German photographer Richard Peter on watches he saw in air-raid shelters when he recorded the aftermath. See Richard Peter
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11.00 am on the Sunday closest to 11th day of the 11th month
The two minute silence was established in Britain to mark a national moment of remembrance following the First World War. It is held on the 11th hour on the Sunday nearest to the 11th day of November, which is the eleventh month. 11/11/11 in modern media shorthand. The Sunday is called Remembrance Sunday or "poppy day" and is held each year.
See also:
:: History of 2 minute silence from BBC website.
:: About Remembrance Sunday
:: About the Cenotaph on Wikipedia; not the fullest of article's on the London Cenotaph but usefully describes other cenotaphs round the world.
:: Image of Big Ben: Big Ben records the time - silent film! - from British Pathe. The two minutes silence is often heralded by the chimes of Big Ben striking 11.00 The Cenotaph in London is right beside Big Ben. This little film clip is without it's sound - during the two minutes silence should the clock should be silent too?
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Signing of the Armistice: 05.30 November 1918
How do you record time?
At 0530 hours on the 11th November 1918 Erzberger gave his consent to the conditions of the Armistice. Foch signed the document for the Allies and then Erzberger on behalf of the German Government. Signals were immediately sent out to the Allied commands: The Armistice was to take effect at 11 o'clock, on the 11th day, of the 11th month. Click image to go to British Pathe site and play the 1918 film 'Armistice Clock Face' (such a snippet).
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Edward Thomas: 7.36 am, 9th April, 1917: "You sleep too well"
The poet Edward Thomas was killed by a bomb-blast on the Western Front near Arras during the First World War. The bomb left no mark on his body but the blast was so strong that his heart failed. His pocket watch also stopped: the time 7.36 and 12 seconds on the morning of 9th April, Easter Monday, 1917. "You sleep too well..." is the opening line of Walter de la Mere's short poem in remembrance of Edward Thomas.
:: The watch is in the Edward Thomas Collection, at Cardiff University Library.
:: Download plain text of the 'Poems', 1917 edition, by Edward Thomas from Project Gutenberg.
:: Download Last Poems', 1918 edition, by Edward Thomas - from Project Gutenberg.
:: About Edward Thomas - Oxford University.
:: Edward Thomas in the Great War Archive.
:: About Edward Thomas - 'Wikipedia'.
:: About Edward Thomas - 'Poets Graves' wesbite. Thomas is buried in a military cemetry in France.
:: Edward Thomas Fellowship
Copyright Note The early editions of Thomas poetry are out of copyright and you can download and re-use the texts referenced above from Project Gutenberg for education use. However, this does not apply to later editions of the poems which may have corrections, additional notes from their editor and will be in a new layout.
Recent books:
:: Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems, Edited by Edna Longley, Bloodaxe £12, pp332, 2008. Read Guardian Review
:: Poets write about the influence of Thomas on their work with examples.
:: The image of Edward Thomas's pocket watch is published here courtesy 'Cardiff University Library' which houses the Edward Thomas archive.
:: The image of the grave is from Flickr: Edward Thomas' grave, by abridgeover and has a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence
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The Hartlepool Clock: 8.03 a.m. 16th December 1914
An alarm clock struck by shrapnel during the German attack on Hartlepool, a port on the the North-East coast of England, on Wenesday 16th December 1914. Found in a house in Collingwood Road after the bombardment, it records the time for ever - three minutes past eight. Though as most reports say the attack began at 10 past 8, it looks like this clock was running a little slow or the attack began a few minutes earlier...??
Three German warships bombarded the town for forty minutes causing 127 deaths with about 400 people wounded. Private Jones was the first British soldier to die in action on British soil since the English civil wars. As this image shows photographs and sketches of the devastation were widely sold as postcards after the event. Why attack Hartlepool? It was part of a wider attack on the North East coast in which Scraborough and Whitby were also bombarded.
:: Alex Glendinning's personal website article.
:: Port Cities website. ... :: History article and links
:: Heugh Gun Battery Group website which includes interactive panoramas
:: German report covers the whole North Sea operation.
:: New York Times report of April 1915 based on British Embassy report. (pdf file).
Image provided with the kind permission of Hartlepool Museum.
Thanks to Tony Fox for bringing this story to the attention of Shapesoftime.
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The East Coast bombardment of December 1914 slide show.
Click the red button once - or twice! - to start the slide show. It will run automatically or you can move back and for using the arrow buttons.
Some of the photos from the magazine 'War Illustrated',1914 will be published shortly. These photographs of the results of the German bombardment of the East Coast towns of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool were published on December 1914 and January 1915 in the weekly publication 'War Illustrated' which ran from 1914 until 1919. It published pages of captioned photographs and some drawn illustrations recording the progress of the war through British eyes.
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The Old Vicarage, Grantchester: "ten to three", 1912
Ten to three - The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Rupert Brooke’s, (1887–1915), poem ‘The Old Vicarage, Granchester’ (1912) stopped time in an English idyll before the horrifying reality of the First World War.
“...
Deep meadows yet, for to forget
The lies, and truths, and pain?… oh! yet
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
we usually quote the line following the Clock line but the two previous lines are at least as interesting.
:: See a picture of the Grantchester clock at 10 to 3
Image copyright Geoff Jones. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA published on Flickr
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Timeless...
...and, on a lighter note, not forgotting the 1876 music-hall song
'My Grandfather's Clock' by Henry Clay Work.
"Ninety years without slumbering, tick, tock, tick, tock,
His life seconds numbering, tick, tock, tick, tock,
It stopped short never to go again,
When the old man died."
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Where were you, when ...?
The when time stood still concept relates to the 'Where were you when...? idea. Where were you when..
...Kennedy was shot." (search Pathe archive)
...England won the World Cup." (search Pathe archive)
...when you heard of the death of Diana."
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