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Barbaras Glidercirca 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
Wells Lecture1944: English author H G Wells (Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946) lecturing at the Czechoslovakian Institute in London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)
Sunday League19th December 1953: Spectators lining up along the touchline to watch the Sunday League match, at Blackheath, London. Original Publication
VE Day in London8th May 1945: Crowds in Piccadilly Circus climb lampposts and the Eros statues protective container, on VE Day. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Native American Indian TribeUNITED 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
Rooftop Tea LoungeSeveral 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)
Ironmongers Shop In LondonAn 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
Busy Covent Market, LondonEvery 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
H G WellsEnglish 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
TS Eliot2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). Original Publication: Picture Post - 5314 - Are Poets Really Necessary
Fox Hunting19th 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
Dylan Thomas10th August 1946: Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), Welsh poet and playwright. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - A Nest Of Singing Birds - pub
Bi-Plane CrewA 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
Vickers FB5A 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)
Vickers FB5A 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)
Morane-Saulnier MonoplaneA Morane-Saulnier monoplane used by the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps), circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Boundary Ball RetrievedA female spectator retrieves the ball after a boundary shot during a cricket match between the two public schools Eton and Harrow, 22nd July 1899
Pressmen On CamelsA 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)
Zeppelin WreckageBritish 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)
Holloway PrisonPrisoners 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
Storming SeringapatamAt 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)
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
Isaacs AppleEnglish 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
Nuclear TestingOperation 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)
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)
The Invisible DoorShe 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)
The Man In The ChairThe 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)
Londons Covent GardenPhotograph of vendors and shoppers in Londons Covent Garden Market, early 1910s. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Londons Covent GardenIllustration by Rowlandson shows market stalls, shoppers, and deliveries, at Londons Covent Garden Market, circa 1812. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Fighting On The CongoBritish colonialists fighting native Africans on the Congo river, circa 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Bristol ScoutA Bristol Scout D used by the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps), circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
ColeridgeEnglish 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)
Cato Street ExecutionsThe 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
GallipoliA British naval gun hidden in the dunes at Gallipoli, during World War I, 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
School Cricket MatchA painting entitled Cricket Match depicting the spectators at an annual Eton vs Harrow fixture, mid 19th century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Battle Of OmdurmanThe 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
Leaving Wad HamedSoldiers 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
Charge Of The 21st LancersBritish 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
Camp In The CrimeaThe British 4th Light Dragoons encamped in the Crimea, circa 1855. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Jubilant SailorsThe Alliance is Approved! British sailors dancing in the Arsenal yard at Tophaneh, Constantinople, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
R. A. F. BirthdayA Bristol fighter of 22 Squadron flies over Vert Galand aerodrome, France, on the inauguration day of the British Royal Air Force, 1st April 1918
Bethlehem HospitalPatients in the Gallery for Women at the Royal Hospital of Bethlehem, 24th March 1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Lord ByronEnglish 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)
Mafeking MoneyA 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)
Taranaki BattleBritish 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)
Fighting At LucknowMutineers attack British troops of the Redan Battery at Lucknow, India, during the Indian Mutiny, 30th July 1857. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Strike-Breaking ConvoyArmoured 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)
Gondoliers ArrangementThe 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)