Summer '21 Freedom Arrives
This wreath cover stories from June to September 2021.
Freedom Day arrives in the UK with the lifting of the major lockdowns: Boris Johnson defends opening with caution. It is a time of drama and extreme events; of activity and action. Our social and sporting life returns: Wimbledon, the Euros 2020, and the delayed Tokyo Olympics. The season starts slowly, then builds to a major world event: the withdrawal of US and allied troops from Afghanistan, which quickly falls to the Taliban.
It is a time of renewal: a baby is born on a military plane flying from Kabul, and another at a bus stop; an endangered pink panda and an endangered orangutan both give birth. Jennifer and Ben Affleck rekindle their love affair onboard a multi-million-pound yacht.
See below for full list of stories.
Limited Edition Print
100cm x 100cm
Edition of 20, signed and numbered on the front in pencil.
Archival cotton rag paper
This wreath cover stories from June to September 2021.
Freedom Day arrives in the UK with the lifting of the major lockdowns: Boris Johnson defends opening with caution. It is a time of drama and extreme events; of activity and action. Our social and sporting life returns: Wimbledon, the Euros 2020, and the delayed Tokyo Olympics. The season starts slowly, then builds to a major world event: the withdrawal of US and allied troops from Afghanistan, which quickly falls to the Taliban.
It is a time of renewal: a baby is born on a military plane flying from Kabul, and another at a bus stop; an endangered pink panda and an endangered orangutan both give birth. Jennifer and Ben Affleck rekindle their love affair onboard a multi-million-pound yacht.
See below for full list of stories.
Limited Edition Print
100cm x 100cm
Edition of 20, signed and numbered on the front in pencil.
Archival cotton rag paper
This wreath cover stories from June to September 2021.
Freedom Day arrives in the UK with the lifting of the major lockdowns: Boris Johnson defends opening with caution. It is a time of drama and extreme events; of activity and action. Our social and sporting life returns: Wimbledon, the Euros 2020, and the delayed Tokyo Olympics. The season starts slowly, then builds to a major world event: the withdrawal of US and allied troops from Afghanistan, which quickly falls to the Taliban.
It is a time of renewal: a baby is born on a military plane flying from Kabul, and another at a bus stop; an endangered pink panda and an endangered orangutan both give birth. Jennifer and Ben Affleck rekindle their love affair onboard a multi-million-pound yacht.
See below for full list of stories.
Limited Edition Print
100cm x 100cm
Edition of 20, signed and numbered on the front in pencil.
Archival cotton rag paper
Stories from this season include: Covid, the NHS app Pingdemic, while the Delta variant drives a 75% rise in infections.
Anti-vaxxer protesters clash with police
Climate change: heatwaves in Europe. Turkish and Greek wildfires. Pacific Northwest: Californian and Canada have a heat dome. In China and West Germany there are floods, and in the UK storms.
CODE RED warning from the most comprehensive climate change crisis report: we have 10 years to prevent a catastrophe.
‘Bennifer’s rebirth’: Jennifer and Ben Affleck rekindle their love affair onboard a multi-million-pound yacht.
US and allies withdraw from Afghanistan. The last Union flag is taken down in a secret ceremony. The Taliban takes Afghanistan at pace.
End of Freedom for women in Afghanistan: a story of a young woman realising she will have to tear up her university certificates when she hears of the Taliban capturing her home city of Kabul.
Suicide bomb at the gate of Kabul airport kills refugees as they queue to escape Afghanistan.
An Afghan evacuee, who gave birth on a military aircraft feeing Kabul, has named her baby “Reach” in honour of the crew who saved her life. (Afghan woman stand around her holding up their scarfs to keep her privacy during the delivery).
Tokyo 2020 Olympics. An Olympics like no other: the first Olympic Games to be held without official spectators.
Sky Brown makes history as GB youngest medallist with bronze for skateboarding, at 13 years old: “I’m so stoked!”
Sarah Campbell is GB’s first female medallist in weightlifting. She wins silver.
GB picked up the highest number of Olympic medals in a single day with eight podium finishes.
Euros 2020: England makes footballing history. They make it to the Euro’s final against Italy only to lose on penalties.
Wettest Wimbledon: Emma Raducanu, aged 18, is the youngest British woman to reach last 16 since 1868.
Fatal stabbing of 15-year-old boy in Southeast London. 3 teenagers have been charged.
Miami beachfront condominium building collapses with 98 lives lost.
Jovenel Moïse, the president of Haiti, is assassinated at his residence.
Haiti earthquake kills 2,248: a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula.
Zuma riots across South Africa: 72 people killed in the worst violence since the 1990s.
The proposed new Police Bill introduces new powers to restrict protests.
Geronimo the Alpaca is put down by government officials: the Alpaca angels tried to save it.
A giant panda has given birth to twins at a Zoo in Saint-Aigen, France, in what is considered an “exceptional” event.
Ocado cancels deliveries as robots collide.
Noah’s Ark - the first biobank – launches: it is a store of selected DNA that can be used to revive species that may go extinct.
Virgin's Sir Richard Branson beat Amazon's Jeff Bezos in becoming the first private industrialist to send himself into space in his own vehicle.
Miss USA has its first transgender contestant: Kataluna Enrique
Rose Aling-Ellis makes history as the first deaf Strictly Come Dancing contestant.
The Queen awards the whole of the NHS with the George Cross for bravery.
The Wombles of Wimbledon thank the people of the UK for their work during the pandemic on National Thank You Day