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British Collection (#12)

Background imageBritish Collection: Barbaras Glider

Barbaras Glider
circa 1930: Romance novelist Barbara Cartland (1901 - 2000) poses beside the glider in which she made the first long distance towed journey in England, from Hanworth to Reading

Background imageBritish Collection: Wells Lecture

Wells Lecture
1944: English author H G Wells (Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946) lecturing at the Czechoslovakian Institute in London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Sunday League

Sunday League
19th December 1953: Spectators lining up along the touchline to watch the Sunday League match, at Blackheath, London. Original Publication

Background imageBritish Collection: VE Day in London

VE Day in London
8th May 1945: Crowds in Piccadilly Circus climb lampposts and the Eros statues protective container, on VE Day. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Native American Indian Tribe

Native American Indian Tribe
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1920s 1930s: Native American Indian Tribe In Tipi Teepee Village. Men, Braves Riding In On Horses While Two Squaws, Women, Stand In Door Of Tipi

Background imageBritish Collection: Rooftop Tea Lounge

Rooftop Tea Lounge
Several people read while they sit at shaded tables in a rooftop tea lounge which overlooks Oxford Street during a heat wave, London, 1920s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Ironmongers Shop In London

Ironmongers Shop In London
An ironmongers shop shows most of its wares, washboards, washbasins, brooms, and baskets, out on the street, 1910s. Two street vendors carts are parked out front and two men look over merchandise

Background imageBritish Collection: Busy Covent Market, London

Busy Covent Market, London
Every morning deliverymen, stockboys, and other workers unload delivery trucks and carts and load the stores of Covent Garden Market with crates and bushels of consumer goods, 1920s

Background imageBritish Collection: H G Wells

H G Wells
English novelist Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), whose most famous works include The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, 4th May 1940. Picture Post - 282 - Unite Or Perish - pub.1940

Background imageBritish Collection: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). Original Publication: Picture Post - 5314 - Are Poets Really Necessary

Background imageBritish Collection: Fox Hunting

Fox Hunting
19th November 1938: The field is spurred on as the hounds pick up the scent of a fox. Original Publication: Picture Post - 44 - Hunting The Fox - pub

Background imageBritish Collection: Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas
10th August 1946: Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), Welsh poet and playwright. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - A Nest Of Singing Birds - pub

Background imageBritish Collection: Bi-Plane Crew

Bi-Plane Crew
A side view of the pilot and co-pilot in a Vickers F.B.5 Biplane which was dubbed the Gunbus when it was first used on the Western Front. The plane remained in service until 1916

Background imageBritish Collection: Vickers FB5

Vickers FB5
A close up of the observer in a Vickers F.B.5 Biplane who is armed with a.303 Lewis gun. The plane remained in service until 1916. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Vickers FB5

Vickers FB5
A Vickers F.B.5 Biplane which was dubbed the Gunbus when it was first used on the Western Front. The plane remained in service until 1916. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Morane-Saulnier Monoplane

Morane-Saulnier Monoplane
A Morane-Saulnier monoplane used by the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps), circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Boundary Ball Retrieved

Boundary Ball Retrieved
A female spectator retrieves the ball after a boundary shot during a cricket match between the two public schools Eton and Harrow, 22nd July 1899

Background imageBritish Collection: Pressmen On Camels

Pressmen On Camels
A group of five war correspondents and their guides travelling across the desert from Berber by camel while covering the British Sudan campaign of 1898. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Zeppelin Wreckage

Zeppelin Wreckage
British Sentries guard the wreckage of a German Zeppelin airship brought down at Potters Bar, England, 2nd October 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Holloway Prison

Holloway Prison
Prisoners on a treadmill (far right) and picking oakum in the oakum shed at Holloway Prison, London, 1862. Oakum picking involves teasing out old tarred rope to be used for caulking ships

Background imageBritish Collection: Storming Seringapatam

Storming Seringapatam
At the end of a second siege, British troops storm the fortress on the island of Seringapatam, Mysore, India, held by Tipoo Sultan in 1799. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: St Swithin

St Swithin, Bishop of Winchester, who died in 862, pictured circa 860. An illustration from the Benedictional of St Ethelwold, an example of the Winchester School of Illumination

Background imageBritish Collection: Isaacs Apple

Isaacs Apple
English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) contemplates the force of gravity, as the famous story goes, on seeing an apple fall in his orchard, circa 1665

Background imageBritish Collection: Nuclear Testing

Nuclear Testing
Operation Hurricane, Britains first atomic weapons detonation, takes place off Trimouille Island, in the Monte Bello Islands, 3rd October 1952. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Major Fitz-David

Major Fitz-David set matters right in his irresistible way - an illustration from the novel The Law And The Lady by Wilkie Collins, circa 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: The Invisible Door

The Invisible Door
She opened an invisible side-door in the wall... - an illustration from the novel The Law And The Lady by Wilkie Collins, circa 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: The Man In The Chair

The Man In The Chair
The man in the chair sprang out... - an illustration from the novel The Law And The Lady by Wilkie Collins, circa 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Londons Covent Garden

Londons Covent Garden
Photograph of vendors and shoppers in Londons Covent Garden Market, early 1910s. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Londons Covent Garden

Londons Covent Garden
Illustration by Rowlandson shows market stalls, shoppers, and deliveries, at Londons Covent Garden Market, circa 1812. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Fighting On The Congo

Fighting On The Congo
British colonialists fighting native Africans on the Congo river, circa 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Bristol Scout

Bristol Scout
A Bristol Scout D used by the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps), circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Coleridge

Coleridge
English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, circa 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Cato Street Executions

Cato Street Executions
The Cato Street conspirators are hanged and beheaded outside Newgate Prison, London, 1st May 1820, for their part in the plot to kill the entire British cabinet in revenge for the Peterloo massacre

Background imageBritish Collection: Gallipoli

Gallipoli
A British naval gun hidden in the dunes at Gallipoli, during World War I, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: School Cricket Match

School Cricket Match
A painting entitled Cricket Match depicting the spectators at an annual Eton vs Harrow fixture, mid 19th century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Battle Of Omdurman

Battle Of Omdurman
The 21st Lancers, a British light cavalry regiment, clear the way to Omdurman in the Sudan, through strong resistance from the Khalifas forces, 2nd September 1898

Background imageBritish Collection: Leaving Wad Hamed

Leaving Wad Hamed
Soldiers of the British 1st Brigade leave camp at Wad Hamed, on the bank of the Nile in the Sudan, to begin their march on Omdurman, August 1898

Background imageBritish Collection: Charge Of The 21st Lancers

Charge Of The 21st Lancers
British light cavalry regiment, the 21st Lancers, clears the way to Omdurman in the Sudan, meeting strong resistance from the forces of Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, 2nd September 1898

Background imageBritish Collection: Camp In The Crimea

Camp In The Crimea
The British 4th Light Dragoons encamped in the Crimea, circa 1855. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Jubilant Sailors

Jubilant Sailors
The Alliance is Approved! British sailors dancing in the Arsenal yard at Tophaneh, Constantinople, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: R. A. F. Birthday

R. A. F. Birthday
A Bristol fighter of 22 Squadron flies over Vert Galand aerodrome, France, on the inauguration day of the British Royal Air Force, 1st April 1918

Background imageBritish Collection: Bethlehem Hospital

Bethlehem Hospital
Patients in the Gallery for Women at the Royal Hospital of Bethlehem, 24th March 1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Lord Byron

Lord Byron
English Romantic poet George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824) in Arnaout or Albanian dress, circa 1815. A painting by Thomas Phillips. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Mafeking Money

Mafeking Money
A special ?1 note issued during the Siege of Mafeking by Baden-Powell, to be used until the resumption of civil law, March 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Taranaki Battle

Taranaki Battle
British soldiers of the 57th Regiment taking a Maroi redoubt on the Katikara River, Taranaki, during the Maori Wars, 1863. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Fighting At Lucknow

Fighting At Lucknow
Mutineers attack British troops of the Redan Battery at Lucknow, India, during the Indian Mutiny, 30th July 1857. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageBritish Collection: Strike-Breaking Convoy

Strike-Breaking Convoy
Armoured cars and troops at Hyde Park Corner, London, preparing to escort a food convoy through London at 6am on the seventh day of the General Strike, 10th May 1926. (Photo by E)

Background imageBritish Collection: Gondoliers Arrangement

Gondoliers Arrangement
The cover of the score of one of Ernest Bucalossis dance arrangements of music from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Gondoliers, circa 1889. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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