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Background image1 4 Collection: St-Leonards-on-Sea

St-Leonards-on-Sea
Bathing machines shelter shy holidaymakers from prying eyes at St-Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, circa 1895. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Jane Austen

Jane Austen
English novelist Jane Austen from an original family portrait. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Gin Lane

Gin Lane
This print was published as a pair with Beer Street and contrasted the health and productivity benefits of drinking beer with the vice of gin drinking

Background image1 4 Collection: Battle Of Thermopylae

Battle Of Thermopylae
Persian archers kill the last of the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, August 480 BC. 300 Spartans, under King Leonidas I

Background image1 4 Collection: Caernarvon Bridges

Caernarvon Bridges
The Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford, and the Britannia Tubular Bridge, designed by Robert Stephenson, between mainland Wales and Anglesey. Original Artwork: Lithograph by Picken

Background image1 4 Collection: Sankey Viaduct

Sankey Viaduct
A view of Sankey Viaduct on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line, 1831. Engraving by H. Pyall after T. Bury (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Two-headed Janus

Two-headed Janus
circa 1890: Two-headed Janus. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: HMS Revenge

HMS Revenge
The remains of the British galleon HMS Revenge are dashed against the cliffs of Terceira in the Azores, to be lost evermore in the main, 1591

Background image1 4 Collection: Military Flogging

Military Flogging
1844: A doctor in a cocked hat supervises an army flogging. The drummer boys drown the sounds and a soldier on the right has fainted at the spectacle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Derbyshire Railway

Derbyshire Railway
A steam train passes along the Buxton branch of the Midland Railway in Derbyshire, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Newcastle Slum

Newcastle Slum
A slum area at Dog Leap Stairs in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 8th March 1889. (Photo by Lyddel Sawyer/General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: WB Yeats

WB Yeats
Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Staplehurst Crash

Staplehurst Crash
June 1865: The aftermath of a railway accident at Staplehurst in Kent, on the South-Eastern railway boat train service to Folkestone

Background image1 4 Collection: J1693071, diry 18757, outdoors, day, river, T / BRI / COBHAM / SURREY, background people

J1693071, diry 18757, outdoors, day, river, T / BRI / COBHAM / SURREY, background people
The village of Church Cobham on the River Mole in Surrey, circa 1930. Just visible on the right is Cedar House, a National Trust property, and Cobham Mill is on the left

Background image1 4 Collection: Covent Garden Theatre

Covent Garden Theatre
The auditorium and stage of the New Covent Garden Theatre in London, better known as the Royal Opera House or Covent Garden Opera House

Background image1 4 Collection: Wembley Exhibition

Wembley Exhibition
1925: The Empire exhibition grounds at Wembley. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Outdoor Bowls

Outdoor Bowls
1870: A group of men enjoying a game of outdoor bowls. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Burnham Beeches

Burnham Beeches, an area of woodland in Buckinghamshire, circa 1930. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Roshon Multiplane

Roshon Multiplane
The Roshon Multiplane. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Dragoons In Crimea

Dragoons In Crimea
Members of the 4th Light Dragoons at camp in the Crimea, circa 1855. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Dancing Bear

Dancing Bear
A bear in a muzzle dances to the tune of its owner, while a monkey capers on another mans shoulders, circa 1800. An engraving by Thomas Bewick. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Helmsley Marketplace and Cross

Helmsley Marketplace and Cross
The marketplace and cross, Helmsley, near Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, circa 1915. The cross is a Grade II building listed on the National Heritage List for England

Background image1 4 Collection: Maldon

Maldon, Essex, circa 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Royal Throne

Royal Throne
1851: An ivory throne and footstool presented to Queen Victoria by the Rajah of Travancore, on display in the Industrial Arts of the 19th Century gallery of the 1851 Great Exhibition

Background image1 4 Collection: Weymouth Harbour

Weymouth Harbour
A ship in Weymouth harbour, Dorset, circa 1930. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Gargoyle

Gargoyle
circa 1930: A Gargoyle on the cathedral of Notre Dame on the Ile de la Cite in central Paris. (Photo by Edward Charles Le Grice/Le Grice/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Round Table

Round Table
25th June 1796: King Arthurs Round Table, looking like a dartboard with the knights names round the edge. A small royal figure is at the top and the centre is a rose

Background image1 4 Collection: Due Aquile, Benito Mussolini posing beneath an eagle

Due Aquile, Benito Mussolini posing beneath an eagle
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) symbolically posing beneath an eagle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Boys In Trafalgar Square

Boys In Trafalgar Square
Two boys playing by a fountain in Trafalgar Square, with the National Gallery in the background, circa 1900. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Leprosy

Leprosy
A leper, his face covered in sores, approaches a seated man with a gesture of supplication, circa 1200. From a manuscript by early medical writer Roger of Salerno

Background image1 4 Collection: Knifeboard Tram

Knifeboard Tram
1847: A tram with knifeboard seats. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Greek Ephebes

Greek Ephebes
A red-figure kylix cup depicting the equipment of a Greek ephebos or ephebe, a young man training as a soldier, circa 500 BC. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Bird In Flight

Bird In Flight
A series of 12 photographs showing stages in the flight of a cockatoo, circa 1887. (Photo by Eadweard Muybridge/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Americas Cup Trials

Americas Cup Trials
From left to right, the Volunteer, the Mayflower and the Thistle during the selection trials for the Americas Cup sailing race, 16th September 1887

Background image1 4 Collection: Schooner Yacht Livonia

Schooner Yacht Livonia
The Livonia was the second unsuccessful challenger in the second Americas Cup sailing race, 1871. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Photographers Studio

Photographers Studio
A debutante visits a photographers studio having been presented at court, 1895. She wears the obligatory short sleeved evening dress with a long train and ostrich feather headdress

Background image1 4 Collection: African Warrior

African Warrior
circa 1895: An African Warrior of the Suk Tribe stands with spear and shield close to Lake Baringo, Kenya. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Mrs Ludd

Mrs Ludd
A cartoon showing a luddite leader dressed as a woman. This is possibly a Tory caricature comparing the Luddites to the mobs in the French Revolution

Background image1 4 Collection: Peoples Beehive

Peoples Beehive
1840: The British Beehive, a cartoon depicting the population as members of a behive with the Queen at the top and various other occupations in cells below her

Background image1 4 Collection: Goupy II

Goupy II
8th April 1910: A Goupy II biplane built by Ambroise Goupy in collaboration with Mario Calderara in Bleriots shop. Aeroplane Album - Vol 3 Page 68 (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Ascot Style

Ascot Style
circa 1900: Spectators at Royal Ascot (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Golden Jubilee

Golden Jubilee
22nd June 1887: A parade making its way through London towards Westminster Abbey, to celebrate Queen Victorias Golden Jubilee. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Peking Palace

Peking Palace
The Imperial Palace or Forbidden City in Peking (modern Beijing), possibly during the lying-in-state of Dowager Empress Cixi (Tsu-Hsi), 1908. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: White Lodge In Richmond

White Lodge In Richmond
Inside White Lodge, Richmond Park, at the time Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, lived there, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: King Edward VII

King Edward VII (1841 - 1910) of Great Britain in ceremonial military uniform, circa 1905. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Victoria In Leeds

Victoria In Leeds
black, &, white|riding|crowd|women|men|event|decoration|bunting|transporta, 22224, BOX, 376, 1/4, ORIG, H, 19932|carriage|horse|street|royalty|Huty1623933|LBAB|Huty, 16239

Background image1 4 Collection: Consorts Sitting Room

Consorts Sitting Room
The sitting room used by Albert, Prince Consort (1819 - 1861) at Queen Victorias royal residence at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, September 1857. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1 4 Collection: Arch Druid

Arch Druid
An Arch Druid in his judicial habit, circa 100 BCE. The druids were a class of ancient priests in western Europe, who were suppressed by the Romans in the first century CE. Aquatinted by R. Havell



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