A priest and deacons in white vestments read at the lectern of the Syriac Orthodox church in Hengelo, under a chandelier and processional cross. Anefo photographed the service on 15 January 1981, when about 150 people gathered in the church to support a man and his wife whose asylum request had been refused.

Syriac Orthodox priest celebrating the liturgy in Hengelo, 1981

The costumed cast of Romeo and Juliet, staged in Assyrian in 1935 by students of the RAF Union School at Hinaidi camp near Baghdad. The principal, Rabi Yacoub Bet-Yacoub, who translated the play, sits in costume in the first row, third from left.

Romeo and Juliet cast, RAF Union School, Hinaidi, 1935

Men and women in traditional dress link arms in a line dance while a drummer plays a large frame drum and onlookers watch. Print captioned "Assyrian wedding dance"; photographed by Col. R.W. Cardew in Ser Amadia, July 1939.

Assyrian wedding dance on a hillside, Ser Amadia

Engraving of a seated Assyrian musician from Persia in a tall hat, playing a kamancheh (spike fiddle), from Cutts's chapter on the evenings at Qudshanis.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) musician with a spike fiddle, 1876 engraving

A dancer in striped national dress and headcloth sweeps a handkerchief while a drummer and another performer stand behind him on open ground. IWM gives no caption for this frame; it belongs to the sequence that includes CBM 2230, captioned as Assyrian dancers and musicians performing the khigga, so it likely shows the same performance, possibly at RAF Habbaniya.

Dancer and drummers in national dress, likely the Assyrian khigga, Iraq, 1942

Men and women in festive dress dance the chobi in the open air at Bartella in the Nineveh Plains, led by a man with a handkerchief; the Commons caption notes a lone zurna player at the centre. Dated 1980 by the source.

Dancing the chobi in Bartella, 1980

Scouts with drums, trumpets and horns of the first modern music band of the Syriac scout troop in Qamishli, with their leader (the author) in the middle, 19 February 1950.

First modern band of the Syriac scout troop, Qamishli, 1950

Dancers from Qamishli in costume performing Syriac songs and dances at the Faculty of Arts, November 1975; the source names the dancers and, in the background, the artist Sardanapal Asaad and Joseph Nasrallah at the keyboard.

Qamishli folk dance group performs Syriac dances at the University of Aleppo, 1975

Men, women and children gathered outdoors in song; the source names the composer Paul Mikhael Kouli and the poet Danho Dahho among them, pioneers of modern Syriac folk song.

Syriac families singing together near Qamishli, 1960s

Uniformed young trumpeters of the Syriac band in close-up, with spectators and a balcony hung with a flag behind them, during Independence Day celebrations in Qamishli.

Syriac band plays at the Independence Day parade in Qamishli, 1956

Boy scouts playing trumpets and trombones in the brass band of the Sixth Regiment of the Syriac Scouts in Aleppo.

Brass band of the Sixth Regiment of Syriac Scouts, Aleppo, 1980s

Refugee girls from the Kurdistan mountains

Jilu Assyrian mother carrying her child on her back

"Americans of Assyrian lineage", group portrait published 1921

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.