To coincide with the 60th anniversary of VJ Day and the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, The Daily Mirror is reprinting its front covers from editions at the time.
They're interesting as pieces of history in their own right, but would make a very good project for analysis of Language Change. I've scanned and saved two of the pages onto the resources website here in case anyone is interested in looking at them and working on them.
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