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English Collection (page 6)

Background imageEnglish Collection: Flying Farman

Flying Farman
October 1909: French pioneer aviator and aircraft manufacturer Henri Farman (1874 - 1958) breaks an English record in his Farman Le Gypaete no 6 at Blackpool

Background imageEnglish Collection: English Lessons

English Lessons
circa 1910: English lessons at a school for Italian children in Soho. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish Collection: Replica Of Rocket

Replica Of Rocket
21st April 1913: A replica of the steam locomotive Stephensons Rocket, designed by English railway engineer Robert Stephenson, on display at Crewe for a visit by King George V and Queen Mary

Background imageEnglish Collection: Loading Cars

Loading Cars
12th January 1927: Some of the 500 English cars being loaded onto the TSS Hobsons Bay bound for Australia at the King George V Docks, London. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish Collection: Jack Sheppard

Jack Sheppard
July 1907: The house of the English robber Jack Sheppard (1702-1724) in Southwark, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish Collection: Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Background imageEnglish Collection: Amis And Howard

Amis And Howard
6th July 1965: English novelist and poet Sir Kingsley Amis with his second wife, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, on a seafront. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish Collection: Fleming Smoking

Fleming Smoking
1960: Ian Fleming, British author and creator of James Bond, smoking with a cigarette holder. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish Collection: Country Cottage

Country Cottage
1933: An archetypal English country cottage, with thatched roof and rose garden. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish Collection: Hunters Head Home

Hunters Head Home
24th December 1938: Two hunters head home after a pheasant shoot in the English countryside, carrying several brace of game birds. Original Publication: Picture Post - 57 - Pheasant Shooting - pub

Background imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish Collection: Battle of Bannockburn

Battle of Bannockburn
English cavalry in action at the battle of Bannockburn, 23rd-24th June 1314. The battle proved a major victory for the Scots in their wars of independence against the English

Background imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish 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 imageEnglish Collection: Game Fellows

Game Fellows
circa 1870: A card game in an old English tavern draws a small group of spectators. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEnglish Collection: The Soul Attains

The Soul Attains
Black and white image of The Soul Attains the fourth of four Pygmalion and the Image paintings depicting the story from Ovid made by English painter Edward Burne-Jones between 1869 and 1879



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