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Agriculture; Grain; Mechanisation

Portable threshing machine. Machines of this type were used in rickyards or fields, and powered by a portable steam engine. From Grande Encyclopedie Practique de Mecanique et d'Electricite by H Desarces. (Paris, c1910).

Politician

Edmund Burke (1729-97) Irish-born British Whig (Liberal) statesman and philosopher. Engraving.

France; Spain; Communism

French anti-communist cartoon on the Spanish Civil War - 1936

Wilhelm II, the German Kaiser, asking Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, his reason for building a new fleet. Cartoon by Bernard Partridge from Punch, London, 23 June 1909.

Britain; England; Transport; Rail; Rolling; Stock

Experiment', the first passenger railway carriage, built by George Stephenson for the Stockton and Darlington line in 1825. Passengers entered from the back. From Samuel Smiles The Story of the Life of George Stephenson, London, 1859.

British; Education; Learning; Scholarship; Female

Elizabeth Smith (1776-1806) English oriental scholar born near Durham. Stipple engraving.

Music; Musical; Instrument; Pneumatic; Keyboard; 15th century

Man playing a portable organ while his wife operates the bellows. After an engraving by Israel van Mecken, German, late fifteenth century.

Propaganda

World War I poster for recruiting soldiers to the British Army. Circa 1914-15

laptop; portable; computer; keyboard; key; finger; hand; technology; contemporary; modern; worksheet; spreadsheet; screen; running; design; letter; business; typing; information; mac; work; character; press; data; employee; keypad; touch; corporate; education; forecast; planning; study; calculation; chart; input; report; button; PHADAT

Britain; England; Religion; 17th century; Seventeenth century

The Seven Bishops Returning from the Tower. From 'Engelands Godsdienst hersteld', Amsterdam, 1689. Seven Anglican bishops petitioned James II to revise his Declaration of Indulgence of 1688 which undermined the authority of the Anglican church. The were imprisoned in the Tower of London accused of seditious libel. Tried before the Court of King's Bench, they were found not guilty.

Wood engraving from the Illustrated London News May 1849 depicting John Hamilton making an attempt on the life of Queen Victoria.assassination, Royalty, Monarch, peril, outrage, pistol shot, Royal carriage,

Civil; Engineering; Germany; Railroad

Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany, electric overhead monorail, 1901. This the world's first, and oldest still operating, overhead monorail passenger transport system was designed by the German engineer Eugen Langen (1833-1895), and was opened to the public on 1 March 1901. From a series of cards, (London, 1901). Chromolithograph.

Britain; England; Ireland; Politics; Nationalism; Irish; Terrorism; Nineteenth century; 19th century

Fenian explosives conspiracy, April 1883: PJ Tynan, supposed organiser of the conspiracy, who was also implicated in the Phoenix Park Murders of 6 May 1883. Reported to have escaped to Mexico.

Music; Musical; Instrument; Stringed; Strings; Sixteenth century; 16th century

Violins and related instruments. l and 2: Pocket Violins, 3: Treble Violin, 4: Standard Treble Violin, 5: Tenor Violin, 6: Bass Viol, 7: Trumscheit, 8: Scheidtholst. Woodcut from Michael Praetorius Syntagma Musicum, 1615-1620.

Victorian chromolithographic print depicting fairy lovers descending from the heavens. fairyland, beauty, fantasy, romantic, love's embrace, cherub, angel, cupid, romance, romantic, courtship, love token, children, joy, St Valentines Day, 14 February, sweetheart, passion, ardour, adoration, devotion; affection, fondness, intimacy, attachment, love affair, affair of the heart, relationship, liaison, courtship, amorous entanglement, flirtation, deep affection, fondness, desire, lust, yearning, fervour, infatuation, beloved, loved one, dearest, dear one, darling, honey, lover, boyfriend, girlfriend, crush, besotted with, captivated by, bewitched by, enthralled by, entranced by, devoted to, cherish, epistolary, after one's own heart, fairy prince, princess,

Florida, Miami, Little Haiti, Caribbean Market Place Carnival, marketplace, community event, Mango's Tropical Cafe dancers, Hispanic, man, woman, costume,

Science; Geology; Evolution

Coral Reef: hand coloured engraving published 1849. Time taken for building of coral reefs and islands was a proof used by Charles Darwin to support the theory of a long geological timescale.

Richard Pendlebury, Senior Wrangler, British mathematician, musician, bibliophile, St John's College, Cambridge, University Lecturer, Mathematics, 1870, portrait

Britain; England; Government; 17th century; Seventeenth century

Page of A Perfect Diurnal of the Passages in Parliament', London, 1642. This daily account of the proceedings of Parliament for 27 February to 6 March, 1642 shows Parliament in session.

Britain; Transport; Rail; Communication; Mail; Nineteenth century; 19th century

A mail train on which letters were sorted while it travelled through the night between cities, replacing the need for the horse-drawn mail coaches. From The Illustrated London News, January, 1849.

Streetscape; Unter der Egg; Lucerne; Switzerland; postcard; lake resort; tourism; travel; vacation; holiday; riverside Market; street Market; arcades;

Porte St Martin, Paris', c1830. Street scene viewed through the arch of the Porte St Martin. Watercolour by John Scarlett Davis (1804-c1844) English painter.

Music; Musician

(Alexis) Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894). French composer.

German; Nazi; Dictator

Adolf Hitler greets crowd during a visit to a German town, c1938.

Britain; England; Ruler; King; Disaster

Fire of London, 1666: boats full of citizens who have escaped, looking back to Old St Pauls and the blazing city from the safety of the south bank of the Thames. Portraits of Charles I (1600-1649) Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (1599-1658) and Charles II (1630-1685). Kronheim chromolithograph c1865

Christianity; reformation

Council of Trent, July 12, 1564

Victorian, announcement, German, 1885, pigs, Ham, Sausages, humour, decorative, illustration, pork, swine, typography,

Decorative announcement - German 1885

Frederick III (1831-1888) Emperor of Germany 1888. Frederick c1880 when still Crown Prince of Germany. He married Victoria, Princess Royal of Britain and eldest child of Queen Victoria. Woodburytype.

First Moroccan Crisis 1905-1906. Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, in Tangier, 31 March 1905, greeted the Sultan of Morocco as an independent sovereign and offered him protection from any French attempt at colonisation. Cartoon by Bernard Partridge from Punch, London.

"Steam-powered ore crush at a metalliferous mine, Cornwall, England. Ore fed in at the top and processed through crushers and discharged into a rail wagon at the bottom. From ""The Playbook of Metals"" by John Henry Pepper (London, 1862). Britain Mining Metal Extraction"

Britain; England; Ireland; Government; Politics; Statesman; Politician; Nineteenth century; 19th century

The Live Shell: Salisbury's (right) administration resigned in January to be followed in February by the third Gladstone (left) administration. Neither politician relished dealing with the problems of Ireland. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 30 January 1886.

History; America

Caricature against Prohibition (of alcohol). A mob hanging an effigy of Prohibition from a tree. 1932.

Scientist; Physician; Medicine

Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist who applied scientific method to medicine. Engraving from La Nature (Paris, 1878).

HOFNER, HOFNER BASS, LOTUS, LOTUS CORTINA, BASS

Britain; England; Government; Protectionism; Agriculture; Food; Grain; Wheat; British; Politician; Politics; Nineteenth century; 19th century

Lord John Russell shown campaigning for abolition of the Corn Laws. Between 1815 and 1846 Corn Laws kept corn prices high to protect farmers from foreign competition. The poor suffered from the high price of bread. Repealed in 1846. Cartoon From Punch, London, January 1846.

Illustration; History and Survey of London; circa 1770; Genius of London; River Thames; homage; Europe; Asia; Africa; America; emblem

copper plate; engraving; religion; religious; scripture; Bible; Mary Magdalen; washing feet; Jesus; Mary Magdalene; cherub; putti; naked young boy with wings; L Masson sculp; engraver; Richard Blome; publisher; coat of arms; disciples; Christianity

Plate has engraved caption containing the name of a patron or contributor to the printing of the work. These patrons range from the King and Queen through all the ranks of society.

Britain; England; Government; Suffrage; Vote; Politics; Politician; Statesman; Twentieth century; 20th century

The Honest Pot Boy: Reform of Parliament - extension of the franchise. Disraeli serving up Reform to John Bull watched by his parliamentary opposition. He introduced and carried his Reform Bill. Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 16 March 1867.

Russia; Tsarist

Unrest in Russia. Isolation of the Tsar. Exploding official telling the Tsar that everything in Russia is quiet. On 15 September the government ordered 'any means' to be used to maintain public order. Cartoon from L'Assiette au Buerre, Paris, 29 September 1906.

Christopher Robin; When We Were Very Young; A. A. Milne; Methuen; 1924

Medicine

Paul Broca (1824-1880) French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. Discovered the location of the speech production area in the front lobes of the brain. Engraving from La Nature (Paris, 1880).

Kent, South East, England, cliffs, beach, coast, sea, clifftop, England, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, David Young, landscape, scenery, countryside, holiday, vacation, Dover, cliffs, beach, coast, sea, Walmer Castle, Henry VIII, coastal artillery defences, cinque ports, turrets

Communication; Mail

Little girl asking the village postman if there is a letterr for her. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 18 February 1888).

Scientist

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher and mathematician, showing some of the principal events of his life, including the death of his illegitimate daughter, Francine, at the age of 5 (1640), and as teacher to Queen Christina of Sweden (1649-1650). Engraving by Nicolas Ponce 1746-1831) from Les Illustres Francais.

cold, snowy, morning, buildings, trees, winter, snow, scene, seasons, countryside, old, print, history, heritage, landscape, USA, circa 1890, travel, wagon, out, buildings, farmhouse, farm,

Old image of a cold snowy morning on a farm in the USA.

Britain; England; Ireland; Government; Politics; Statesman; Politician; Nineteenth century; 19th century

Set Down Two, and Carry One.?: Gladstone, the British Prime Minister, in a quandary over which of the controversial Irish bills to jettison. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 3 April 1886.

Ancient Egypt

The God Sekhmet, from the reign of Amenhotep III. In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet was the warrior goddess of Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness. 1388?1351 BC

Victorian, decorative, panel, vignette, ornament,

Victorian decorative design

Liberal; Lords; Reform

The British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, infuriated by the constant blocking of House of Commons bills by the House of Lords, threatening the Marquess of Lansdowne, Leader of the Opposition in the Lords, with the awakening of John Bull (Britain) who would want to abolish the House of Lords.

Britain; England; Government; Suffrage; Vote; Politics; Politician; Statesman; Nineteenth century; 19th century

Great Autumn Manoeuvre: Gladstone thought that eventually the vote must be given to agricultural labourers (Hodge). At this time his premiership was shaky and Disraeli is waiting to take his place. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 9 August 1873.

Victorian advertisement for Hudson's Soap from The Graphic Summer Number 1889. policeman, copper, peeler, police constable, on the beat, torch, lantern, law and order, household cleaner, health, domestic, London, arrest, reward, dirt,

British history; royalty; tudor

English King Henry VIII shown on horseback, Artist unknown, Riijksmueum, Amsterdam

British, English, Monarch,

Harold II (c1020-1066) last Anglo-Saxon king of England (1066): Harold swearing an oath on sacred relics (c1064) before William of Normandy to support his claim to the English throne on death of Edward the Confessor. Harold's failure to honour this supposed oath gave William excuse to invade and conquer England in 1066 and establish a feudal system. Colour-printed wood engraving by James Doyle (1822-92)

WHODOG

British; Literature; Author

Frances Trollope (born Milton - 1780-1863) English writer and novelist. Mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). Engraving published London 1835.

Law; Order; Capital; Punishment; Religion; Christian; Dress; Hat; Beaver; Top

Tom, Jerry and Logic in the Press Yard, Newgate prison, London, watching shackles being removed, while clergyman, left, waits to accompany convict to scaffold. Illustration by IR&G Cruickshank for Pierce Egan Life in London, 1821. Aquatint.

World War 1914-1919: British women working in an armaments factory.

British; Scientist

Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819) Scottish physician and botanist. Professor botany and Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The author Walter Scott was his nephew. Engraving after the portrait by Raeburn from The Temple of Flora by John Thornton (London, 1801).

Concert Programme, Paris, circa 1920. Fashion. Artist: C Gesmar.; ; Paris

British; Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet, critic and philosopher, born at Ottery St Mary, Devon. A friend of William Wordsworth. A founder of the Romantic movement and one of the Lake Poets. Addicted to opium. Stipple engraving published London, 1837.

British; Suffrage; Female

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (1891-1947) English Labour (Socialist) politician and feminist, Member of Parliament for Middlesborough (1924-1931). Wilkinson campaigning for the Equal Franchise Bill giving votes to women between the ages of 21 and 25. The Bill was passed in 1928 and was popularly known as the 'Flapper Vote'.

French; Breton; Bretagne; shutters; blue; holiday; home; house; shut; secure; safe; closed; traditional; colourful; typical; holiday; weekend retreat; get away; pied a terre; white washed; France; Brittany

Britain; England; Poverty; Nutrition; Education; Twentieth century; 20th century

School children in the East End of London queueing for free meals, c1910. The children of thise poor district of the city were too undernourished to be able to concentrate on their lessons without meal inside them.

Cartography; british history

Map of the British Empire 19th Century. Areas controlled by Britain are shaded in pink.

Victorian illustration from The Graphic, November 1872 titled - Trimmings for Soup Kitchens. street vendors, celery, barrel, costermonger, poor, street dealers, hawker, London's poor,

Britain; England; Ireland; Government; Politics; Statesman; Politician; Nineteenth; cenntury; 19th century

Taking the (Irish) Bull by the Horns: Bill passed by Parliament on 15 February 1870 and received royal assent on 8 July. William Gladstone, Prime Minister, dealing with the issue. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 26 February 1870.

Victorian illustration from The Graphic, November 1872 titled - Costermongers' Dinner. street vendors, poor, street dealers, hawker, London's poor, soup kitchen, charity, urchins,

Victorian illustration from The Graphic, November 1872 titled - Home of a Costermonger. street vendors, poor, street dealers, hawker, London's poor, costermonger's family, dwelling,

British; Communication; Telegraphy

John Watkins Brett (1805-1863) English telegraph pioneer who, with his brother Jacob, founded the General Oceanic Electric Telegraph Company (1845). Engraving from Les Merveilles de la Science by Louis Figuier (Paris, c1870).

Early postcard, 1906, Dutch Girl, collecting Holly, Mistletoe, Winter, Christmas, snow, windmill, clogs, apron,

Victorian illustration from The Graphic, November 1872 titled - China Yard on Saturday Afternoon. street vendors, costermonger, poor, street dealers, hawker, London's poor, donkey, cart, vegetable seller,

Russia; Tsarist; Religious; Persecution

Anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia. Pogrom in Kishinev (Kichinev) capital of Bessarabia, 1903. The anti-Jewish riots and massacre began at noon on Easter Sunday and rioters included seminarists from local religious colleges and students.

Street; Cries; Food; Vegetables; France

Green bean seller. From Arts, Metiers et Cris de Paris Paris, 1826. Coloured engraving.

Seaside, ladies, Fashions, 1863, costume, dress, Victorian, beach, holiday, satire, humour, caricature,

Seaside Fashions 1863, print from Punch's Pocket Book 1863

Russia; Tsarist; Religious; Persecution

Anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia. Pogrom in Kishinev (Kichinev) capital of Bessarabia, 1903. The anti-Jewish riots and massacre began at noon on Easter Sunday and rioters included seminarists from local religious colleges and students.

Britain; England; Ireland; Government; Politics; Statesman; Politician; Nineteenth century; 19th century

Silencing the Trumpet. (after Aesop): Prime Minister Gladstone silencing the Irish press for inciting Fenian violence. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 9 April 1870.

Scientist; Electricity

(Raymond) Gaston Plante (1834-1889) French physicist who in 1859 invented the first accumulator or electric storage battery. It was a wet cell with two lead plates immersed in sulphuric acid, the electrolyte. Engraving from Les Nouvelles Conquetes de la Science by Louis Figuier (Paris, 1883).

Science; Physics; Pneumatics

Demonstrating the strength of a vacuum. Vessel from which air has been evacuated mounted in frame. A rope attached is passed over two pulley wheels. On a wooden platform hung from the end of the rope weights were added until the vacuum was overpowered. From Experimenta Nova by Otto von Guericke (Amsterdam, 1672). Engraving.

Victorian visiting card, Typography, decorative, Design, captain major of police,

Victorian, Decorative, Belgium Trade Card, painter, interior decorator, angels, palette, brushes,

Scientist; Chemistry; Currency; Coinage; Nineteenth century; 19th century

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) American chemist, born in Philadelphia. The first state geologist for Delaware. Smelter and refiner to the US Mint (1849-1888). Engraving from "Scientific American" (New York, 9 June 1888).

1830s; A Hod Fellow; Composite Print; implemental character; implements; builder; bricklayer; tools; ladder; spade; clay pipe; bricks; trowel; basket; humour; Tregear; trade; profession; work; caricature;

Print of a builder/bricklayer made up from the tools and implements of his trade.

Agriculture; Labourer; Textile; Cotton

Afro-Americans picking cotton, USA. Postcard c1900.

British; Religion; Christian; Protestant; Literature

John Bunyan (1628-1688) English Puritan preacher. Author of The Pilgrim's Progress (London, 1878). Portrait from a mid-19th century edition illustrated with Kronheim chromolithographs, with scenes from The Pilgrim's Progress at top and bottom.

Victorian, Typography, Design, artistic printing, job vacancy, compositor, printing, Sunderland, Thomas Jopling, Hills & Co,

Swansea, Maritime Quarter, Seafront, Modern, Housing, Flats, Meridian Tower, Apartments, Modern Development, City, Coast, Coastal, Coastline, Welsh, Wales, UK, United Kingdom, Great Britain, British, IPSV0460, IPSV0230, IPSV1478, IPSV0459,

Modern apartments in the Swansea Bay seafront - the Meridian Tower is the tallest accommodation tower in Wales.

life, plant, green, background, colour, structure

British; Monarchy; Restoration

George Monk (or Monck) Ist Duke of Albermarle (160816-70) English soldier. Supported Commonwealth cause in English Civil Wars from 1644, but was instrumental in restoration of Charles II in 1660. Hand-coloured stipple engraving 1817.

accession; throne; England; Britain; British Isles; British Empire; from a drawing; British; Royal Family; London; bonnet;

HRH Queen Victoria on the morning of her accession to the throne.From a drawing.

"Crimean (Russo-Turkish) War 1853-1856. The Battle of Alma, 20 September 1854; George Brown (1790-1865) commander of the Light Division, having had his horse shot from under him, on his feet waving his sword shouting ""23rd I am all right!"". The Allies (Britain, France and Turkey) defeated the Russians. Engraving c1860. "

Spain; Spanish; Inquisition; Religion; Christian; Religious; Persecution; Book; Fifteenth century; 15th century

Title page of Compilacion de las Instructiones del Officio de la Sancta Inquisition , Granada, 1537, by Tomas de Torquemada. Torquemada (1420-1498) first Inquisitor General of Spain.

Illustration from The London Saturday Journal depicting London Dustmen, February 1841. clay pipe, smoking, trades, professions, human labour, cockney, plush breeches, shovel hats, common life, rogue, dust basket, shovel, porter pot,

Britain; England; Transport; Rail; Nineteenth century; 19th century

Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened 27 September 1825. Advertisement for the first passenger railway carriage 'Experiment'. Built mainly to transport coal, passengers were something of an afterthought.

Britain; England; Tudor

Holbein's Gate, Whitehall, London. Built in the time of Henry VIII it was demolished in 1750.

Religion; Chrisian; Religious; Persecution; Tudor

English Protestant Martyrs: Execution for heresy of Alexander Gooch and Alice Driver at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, 4 November 1558, only a fortnight before the death of Mary I. From Christian Martyrdom, London, 1838.

Spanish; Royalty; Religion; Christian; Exploration; Revelation; Fifteenth century; 15th century

The Risen Christ appearing to the king of Spain (Ferdinand II of Aragon and Ferdinand V of Castile 1452-1516). Woodcut from 1497 pamphlet containing a German translation of Columbus's letter to Luis de Santangel, the Spanish royal Treasurer, announcig his discovery of America.

Italian history; fascism

Fascist Italy during the 1920's and 1930's saw many large scale construction endeavours including highways and roads. Motorway 'Autostrada' at Milan to Laghi Circa 1929

Religion; Chrisian; Religious; Persecution; Tudor

Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) English prelate: Archbishop of Canterbury. Under Henry VIII he adopted the Protestant faith. Under Mary I he condemned for heresy and burned at the stake. From Christian Martyrdom, London, 1838.

Ancient; Egypt

Photograph of Hypostyle hall at Karnak, Egypt

Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Royal family, Plum Pudding, Christmas pudding, John Bull, cartoon, rude, satire, British comic art, fun, joke, Regal Christmas Day,

While Prince Albert and the Royal children gorge themselves on a huge plum pudding Queen Victorian hands John Bull the leftovers - some plum-stones to suck!