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A historic black and white photo of a man in uniform sitting at a desk. On the desk in front of him is a map and a model of train carriages. He is looking down at the surface of the desk through a small stereoscope.

Aerial Photography and the Science of Stereoscopy

21 June marked Stereoscopy Day, an international celebration of three-dimensional stereoscopic viewing, something which applies to almost all of the images held by the National Collection of Aerial Photography. 

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A screenshot of the NCAP legacy website, with the NCAP logo visible top left, a menu of options in a blue banner across the top and a grid of tiles with more menu options across the body of the page.

NCAP Legacy Website Retired

As part of our ongoing commitment to cybersecurity, we retired the legacy ncap.org.uk website on 24 June 2025. Going forward our new platform – ncap.org – will be the gateway...

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A black and white oblique aerial photo of a circular railway engine shed. A railway line stretches across the right-hand side of the image and the houses of a village are visible to the left.

Celebrating our Volunteers this Volunteers’ Week!

This Volunteers’ Week, we are highlighting the fantastic contribution our volunteers make to the National Collection of Aerial Photography’s mission to preserve and make accessible the 30 million aerial photographic...

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A black and white aerial photo of the city of Dunkirk, with the coast just visible in the distance. Thick clouds of black and white smoke are billowing up from the city, being driven by the wind from left to right.

Operation Dynamo - Evacuating Dunkirk

Images held by the National Collection of Aerial Photography show key locations in the Allied pocket around Dunkirk, between 26 May and 4 June 1940, from where 85 years ago...

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