8/9 Perhaps that's what makes this photograph so extraordinary. It captures a quiet goodbye at a London railway station… …but also a moment when the struggle against apartheid was becoming international. Tambo would eventually return to South Africa after roughly 30 years in exile. Huddleston would live long enough to witness something that must once have seemed almost impossible: 🇿🇦 Nelson Mandela becoming President of South Africa in 1994. Sometimes history doesn't announce itself. Sometimes it simply looks like two friends smiling at a railway station.

9/10 Joe Slovo had his own surprising side. The revolutionary, military strategist and Communist intellectual was a lover of classical music. His favourite composer was reportedly Gustav Mahler. His favourite book? Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls.