Reading Collection (page 4)

Buy British Campaign, Trafalgar Square
A statue of a lion in Trafalgar Square is silhoutted against a giant illuminated sign which reads Buy British and which is part of a campaign to encourage the consumption of British-made goods

Man reading braille, close up of hands

Services Club
March 1916: A notice on the front of the German Athenaeum, shortly after a public demonstration took place outside. The Athenaeum landlords are attempting to evict the members of the Services Club

When Is It Due ?
November 1918: Soldiers are among the travellers studying the time tables at Waterloo Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pit Notice
February 1912: Young miners and their brothers read a notice outside a mine in Wigan during the miners strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Naval Mess
circa 1900: The ward room of a Naval ship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mental Welfare
23rd October 1913: A general view of the delegates at the National Conference for the Welfare of the Feeble Minded, at the Guildhall in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shipping Disaster
29th May 1914: Crowds gather to read the latest newsheet, following the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, with great loss of life. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Reading Soldiers
July 1907: The Reading Room at St Georges Barracks, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Point To Point Cars
31st March 1929: The car park at the Berks and Bucks Point to Point Meeting near Reading. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sign Of Danger
circa 1916: A sign at the Belgian-Dutch frontier during World War I reads Achtung or Attention and alerts people to the danger of the high voltage electric fence

Reflections of Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom in the temples of Angkor a UNESCO World Heritage Site at Siem Reap, Cambodia

Bookmakers
1st August 1908: Bookmakers at a racehorse meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Studying The Form
circa 1909: Racegoers in Edwardian dress on Derby Day. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)

Asbestos Dump
10th May 1976: A sign reading Danger No Admittance at a Kent asbestos dump at Rainham. (Photo by John Mitchell/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Somerset Maugham
British novelist and playwright W Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) relaxes on a sofa. Original Publication: People Disc - HH0153 (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Duke Ellington
12th January 1963: American jazz musician and band leader Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974) smokes a cigarette on a sofa with a music score in his lap during the British phase of his European tour

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

Stravinsky
8th December 1958: Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) at work. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Hitler Undone
February 1945: An American GI removing a sign which reads Adolf Hitler Street from the side of a building in Duren, Germany. The street is to be renamed following the Second World War

Fighter Pilot
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain standing in a doorway with a sign above him reading Through These Portals Pass The Best Damn Fighter Pilots In The World

Students In Class At Chinese College
A teacher sits at a desk on raised platform and points to a student who recites a lesson at Chinese College, Hartford, Connecticut, late 1870s

Scutari Hospital
A nurse reads to her patient in the Barrack hospital at Scutari, during the Crimean War, circa 1855. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Children At School
Schoolchildren at their books, UK, AD 1338-1344. From Bodleian manuscript MS. Bodl. Misc. 264. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, Volume 2, by John Richard Green

Black and White, diry 18480, J1681205, war, outdoors, day, home front, civilian, men
People scanning the casualty lists posted outside the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

diry 18759, J1694082, earlydate, print, H / EDU / SCH / PRE 1700, H 4601 BOX 89 1 / 4 ORIG H 4600
Schoolboys at their lesson, UK, circa 1500. A woodcut from John Stanbridges Parvulorum Institutio, printed by Wynkyn de Worde. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Holiday Sketches
A lively cafe on the boulevards of Paris, 1879. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 6th September 1979. By Barnard. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Newsstand
A soldier in Paris reading Picture Post at a newstand

Antique illustration of people with book

South Sea House
February 1810: The dividend hall of South Sea House, a banking establishment on Threadneedle Street, London. Original Artwork: Drawn and engraved by Rowlandson and Pugin, aquatinted by Sutherland

Bloomerism Scandal
circa 1855: A cartoon depicting how masculine women have become by wearing bloomers. This group are smoking and reading the newspaper

Christmas Studies
1st December 1879: A set of Christmas sketches. Original Publication: The Pictorial World - pub. 1879 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Come And Welcome
A clergyman welcomes a young family to the church, circa 1800. the quote beneath reads He gave himself a ransom for all, from Timothy 2:6. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

At Ease In Mandalay
A man reclines in a chair and reads in the Kings Golden Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma), circa 1887. Original publication: The Graphic - pub 19th November 1887 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Antique illustration of funeral of an ancient Egyptian mummy on the Nile. Two people (a man and a woman, a minister and a sort of priestess)

Antique illustration of tired man

Tidings From The Front, an 1898 painting by American painter Gilbert Gaul (1855 - 1919), depicting a family receiving news of events in the U.S. Civil War, circa 1863

Announcing a Coronation Party
Children studing a poster in Stepney, London, detailing plans for a Coronation party for local blocks of flats. (Photo by Monty Fresco/Getty Images)

Young Gentlemen Dressed as a Future Diplomat
February 1958: Eleven year old Major Thompson, dressed as a future diplomat, explores Kensington Gardens in London with his nanny and two friends. (Photo by Russell Knight/BIPs/Getty Images)

Girl And Baguette as she reads a noticeboard
A young girl holding a baguette as she reads a notice board displaying cuts in the prices of fruit, jam and coffee. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5891 - Save The Franc - Pinay - pub

Reading Houses
17th April 1950: A row of nineteenth century houses in Reading. (Photo by Price/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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