First meeting of Labour Supply Board set up in May 1940 by Churchill's government to organise labour for industrial war effort. Standing centre is the Chairman, Ernest Bevan (1881-1951) Minister of Labour and National Service.
Georges Mendel (1885-1944) Jewish French politician, journalist, Resistance leader. Sometime secretary to Clemenceau. Arrested by Vichy government, handed to Nazis 1942. Killed 1944 in retaliation for Maquis assassination. *** Local Caption ***
Cherbourg, 1940: Last equipment being loaded on board ships by the retreating British Expeditioary Force before France's great atlantic port was destroyed, thus denying its use to the approaching Germans.
Max Aitken, lst Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964) Canadian-born British press baron, business tycoon, and writer. Appointed to wartime Cabinet by Winston Churchill in May 1940 as Minister of Aircraft Production.
Raoul Dautry (1880-1951) French politician and engineer. Director of State Railways 1928-38, Armaments Minister 1939-1940. 1944 appointed Minister of Reconstruction by de Gaulle, then Dircetor, French Atomic Energy Agency.
William Allen (1532-1594) English prelate; created Cardinal 1587. On accession of Elizabeth I went into exile. Founded English colleges to train missionaries to reconvert England to Roman Catholicism. Died in Rome. Engraving
Impression made from the ring of Childeric I. Childeric I (c. 440? c. 481) was the Merovingian king of the Salian Franks from 457 until his death, and the father of Clovis
Making bicycle handlebars: Man works on handlebars clamped in a vice or vise. Behind him is a forge with multiple work stations. France. Wood engraving Paris 1896.
Queen Victoria distributing Crimean Medals at Horse Guards, London, 18 May 1856. She is presenting a medal to Sir Thomas Troubridge (1815-1867) who lost his right leg and left foot at Inkermann, and appointing him as her aide-de-camp. Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856.
Linnaeus (Carl von Linne - 1707-1778) Swedish naturalist. From The Gallery of Portraits, Vol.IV, Charles Knight, London, 1835. Linnaeus is shown holding a sprig of Linnea borealis (Twinflower) a creeping evergreen shrub named in his honour.
William Tyndale of Tindale (c1494-1536), English translator of the Bible. Copies of Tyndale's vernacular Bible brought into England concealed in bales of various goods. Wood engraving, 1877
Civil rights march on Washington, DC, USA. Procession of African Americans carrying placards demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. 28 August 1963. Photographer: Warren K Leffler.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) British biologist, supporter of Darwin and evolution. Grandfather of Julian and Aldous Huxley. From The Popular Science Review, London, April 1866. Woodburytype.
Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905) Irish-born philanthropist and physician; founder of the East End Mission for destitute children in London 1867 which became known as Dr Barnardo's Homes. Engraving published 1893.
Art; Japan; Ukiyo-e; Entertainment; Play; Nineteenth century; 19th century
Description
Scene from a Kabuki theatre performance. In this highly stylised Japanese dance-drama, from 1629 all roles had to be played by men. Those who specialised in female roles were known as onnagata. Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864) Japanese artist and printmaker. Coloured woodblock print.
Roger Bacon (c1214-92) English experimental scientist, philosopher and Franciscan (Grey Friar); called 'Doctor Mirabilis'. Bacon in his observatory at the Franciscan monastery, Oxford, England. Artist's impression 1867. Engraving
They carried him into darkness. The inhabitants of the Moon carrying a very nervous Cavour into darkness. From The First Men in the Moon by HG Wells. First published London, 1913. Halftone.
(Antoine) Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) French physicist; Fluorescence: Radioactivity; shared 1903 Nobel prize for physics with Pierre and Marie Curie. Photograph
Working metal deposits at Stolberg, Prussia, Germany, in direct or descending steps. The miners are working by the light of oil lamps with naked flames as in metal mines there was none of the inflammable gas methane to contend with. The ore is being carried away from the workface in trolleys running on rails. From Underground Life; or, Mines and Miners by Louis Simonin (London, 1869). Wood engraving.
Entertainment; Film; Literature; American; Second; World; War; World; War; II
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Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) Swedish film and stage actress, with Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957). Still from Casablanca, 1942. Based on the play Everybody Goes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
Judas (Jehudah) Maccabaeus (Maccabee), leader of the Jews from 166 BC leading his army into battle. 1 Maccabees 5. From Gustasve Dore's illustrated Bible, 1866. Wood engraving
World War I 1914-1918: Cannon workshop, Krupp works, Essen, Ruhr, Germany, 1917. Machine shop with overhead cranes and power transmission by belt and shafting. Factory, Tools, Armaments, Weapon, Gun
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) in his flying kit standing by 'Spirit of St Louis', the plane in which he made the first non-stop Atlantic air crossing: 20-21 May 1927. Landed at Le Bourget Airdrome, Paris, after a flight of 33.5 hours.
Mountaineering accident to French Alpine Chasseurs at 3,800 metres: Adjutant Rosier hit by falling block of ice. He and one other killed, two of rescued seriously injured. From 'Le Petit Journal, Paris, 23 July 1892. Climber, Crevasse
James Matthew (JM) Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish playwright and novelist, born at Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Quality Street (1901), Peter Pan (1904), What Every Woman Knows (1906) and Dear Brutus (1917) are among his best known works.
Enrico Fermi (1901-54) Italian-born American nuclear physicist. Nobel prize for physics 1938, shown here at control of Chicago synchro-cyclotron c1942.
Captain Robert Faulknor (1763-1795), English naval officer, killed while endeavouring to lash the bowsprit of French frigate 'Pique' to capstan of his vessel 'Blanche', off Guadeloupe. During the fierce engagement the captain of the 'Pique' also was mortally wounded. The crew of the 'Blanche' finally managed to capture the 'Pique'. Engraving.
Manhunters: William A Pinkerton, centre, son of Alfred Pinkerton founder of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1850, and two of his agents Pat Connell, left, and Sam Finley in the late 1870s..
Spanish-American-Cuban War 1898: Cuban struggle for Independence. 'A well-directed volley at this time might have rid Spain of the fiery old guerrilla'. Mounted Cuban soldiers. Illustration for 'Cascorra', 1910, by Frederick Funston .
Isaac Merrit Singer (1811-1875), American inventor, while his friend George Zieber holds the candle, adjusting tension on his sewing machine in a last desperate attempt to make it work (August/September 1850). Machine patented 1851. From Genius Rewarded or the Story of the Sewing Machine, New York, 1880.
Iwao Oyama (1842-1916) Japanese soldier. From photograph taken after his victory at the Battle of Mukden in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, when he defeated General Kuropatkin.
Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760), German theologian, pupil of Francke and convert to pietism. Revived the Moravian Church, and aided its establishment in America. Wood engraving.
'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel', the poor Jewish quarter of the city: From Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold London: A Pilgrimage London 1872. Wood engraving
Japanese-American camp, Tule Lake Relocation Center, California 1942/1943. Eight Japanese women standing outside the barber's shop in the US war emergency evacuation camp set up in World War II. Internment Alien
World War I, 1914-1918: British women fire fighters training at a workhouse. Elderly female residents watch the exercise. During the war women on the home front took over many jobs traditionally done by men.
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverely (1882-1958). Scottish politician and administrator. Created Viscount in 1952. Minister of Home Security 1939-1940. Anderson air-raid shelter named after him.
Andrians or The Great Bacchanal with Woman Playing a Lute': 1628, oil on canvas. Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) French painter. Bacchus (Dionysius in Greek pantheon) Roman god of Wine, associated with drunkenness.
Preobrajensky regiment shooting hungry bears invading a Russian town during a bitterly cold winter. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 26 November 1892. Weather, Snow, Forest, Conifer
Explosion of fire-damp in coal mine at Anderlues, Belgium. 154 men lost their lives and 8 were seriously injured. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 2 April 1892. Mining, Accident, Chemistry, Gas, Methane
French army conscripts setting out for training. In 1892 10% less young men eligible for conscriptions than usual, perhaps due to the Franco-Prussian War twenty years earlier. 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 5 March 1892. France Military
World War I 1914-1918: French field telephone post installed in a covered trench. From 'Le Pays de France', Paris, 9 September 1915. Military, Army, Communications, Switchboard, Soldier, Dog
Little girl, watched by proud parents, showing her grandmother her first school prize. Illustration after Henri Cain from 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 21 May 1891. Family, Education
World War I 1914-1918: Aftermath of the First Battle of the Marne, near Paris, France, 5-12 September 1914 - Ruins of the church at Huiron, near Vitry-le-Francois. The battle was a Allied strategic victory.
World War I 1914-1918: War effort on the Home Front; Garment section of the National Women's Union making uniforms, Frankfort-am-Main, 1915. Factory, Textile, Mechanisation, Sewing machine, Labour, Female
World War I 1914-1918: French observation post in an oak tree in the Woevre region of Lorraine, northeastern France. From 'Le Flambeau', Paris, September 1915.
World War I 1914-1918: German Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945) watching his army crossing the Danube at Tutrakan, 6 September 1917 during his Romanian Campaign.
World War I 1914-1918: Morning in a German army hut in the Vosges, Lorraine, 1916. Some men are already up and dressed, while others are still in their bunks.
World War I 1914-1918: A column of French prisoners of war, escorted by German guards, marching to a prison camp behind the German lines, Somme, 1917. Military, Army, Soldier, Captivity, Defeat
Return of the Fishing Fleet': oil on panel. Karl Daubigny (1846-1886) French Impressionist painter. Fishing vessels at the quay, people on quayside crowding round
A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord', c1659. Dutch interior with girl at keyboard sight-reading from an open music book. Jan Steen (1626-1679) Dutch painter.
?Mother Jeronima de la Fuente', Franciscan nun, about to leave Spain for the Philippines where she founded a convent in Manila, 1620. Oil on canvas. Portrait by Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) Spanish painter. Missionary Crucifix Bible
?Madame Corot, Mother of the Artist' c1845. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) French artist, leading painter of the Barbizon School. Seated woman in blue dress, lace bonnet with lilac ribbons, gloved hands.
Religion; Judeo-Christian; Jewish; Prophet; Nineteenth century; 19th century
Description
Moses descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the law (Ten Commandments). Exodus 5.35. Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for The Bible (London 1866). Wood engraving.
Britain; England; Industrial; Revolution; Metals; Forge; Employment; Labour; Work
Description
Making chains in the Cradley Heath district of the Black Country in the English Midlands. Women made the smaller sizes of chain. No.8 which had about 79 links per metre and weighed 2g took a woman a week to make 12. 7kg for which she might earn 25p. Wood engraving, 1890.
'A City Thoroughfare': From Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold London: A Pilgrimage London 1872. Scene of chaotic traffic congestion with a London policeman trying to get vehicles moving. Wood engraving .
Fra Girolamo commanding Romola not to leave Florence. Illustration by Frederic, Lord Leighton, for George Eliot Romola published in monthly parts in The Cornhill Magazine London 1862-1863. Wood engraving
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman and philosopher; Prime Minister 1902-1905; Balfour Declaration 1917. Wood engraving 1892.
Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) English mathematician and cleric. Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1663, resigned 1669 to make way for Isaac Newton. Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and founder of its library. Engraving.
Arthur James Balfour 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman and philosopher; Prime Minister 1902-1905; Balfour Declaration 1917. Photograph.
