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Street DressA proud lady in Edwardian street dress, looks lively for this studio portrait. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Wind OrganA monk works the bellows for a fourteenth century organist, circa 1335. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Hotel KitchensThe chefs and staff in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Cecil. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Medieval ForgeThirteenth century rustics at a blacksmiths forge, circa 1200. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
SiblingsMother and children in the parlour. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)
Tom And MaggieTom and Maggie overwhelmed by the flood in scene from George Eliots book, Mill-on the Floss. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
BloomersWomen in Bloomers, loose trousers gathered at the knee or ankle, a fashion started by American magazine editor Amelia Bloomer. It did not catch on but did re-appear as swimwear
Charles DickensEnglish novelist Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Peace With FranceCrowds gather outside the house of the French ambassador in Portman Square, London to celebrate the new peace between France and Britain following the Treaty of Amiens
Sitting DickensEnglish writer Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), from the original wet-plate negative by Herbert Watkins. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Factory BoysAn illustration from the novel The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy by the English novelist Frances Trollope (1780 - 1863), the mother of Anthony Trollope
Pickwick PapersThe Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickins, Vol 1, title page drawn by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Brixton CharlieCharles Rouse, the last of the Charlies, an early police force. His watch was on Brixton Road, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Union StreetCotton mills on Union Street in Manchester. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Monoliths JourneyCleopatras Needle wrapped in a specially built torpedo-shaped shell at the start of its journey. It was towed from Alexandria in Egypt, where it had stood for nearly 2, 000 years
London GardensThe backyards of a row of terraced houses in a slum area of London. Over London by Rail by Gustave Dore (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Slum ChildrenDudley Street in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) area of London. Original Artwork: By Gustav Dore. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), the 16th President of the United States of America (1861 - 1865). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Culloden Moor (aka Drummossie Moor)in Inverness looking towards the Moray Firth with British soldiers firing on fleeing and dying soldiers who are being tended by their women, April 1746
Victorian TravellersPorters assist passengers with their baggage at Paddington Railway Station in London. Original Artwork: Painting by William Powell Frith (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
London OmnibusPassengers travel between Paddington and the Bank aboard Shillibeers omnibus for a fare of one shilling. Guildhall Library (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
PickpocketA pickpocket at work on an unsuspecting gentleman. Original Publication: Busbys Humorous Etchings - Introspection - Thomas Busby (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Marvel At MunchhausenThe magnificent Baron Munchhausen riding a canonball over an enemy camp. An illustration from Rudolf Erich Raspes book Baron Munchhausens Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
Musical MozartsGerman composer Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787) playing the violin accompanied by his seven year old son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) on the harpsichord
No RulesA group of boys playing an old-fashioned version of football. Original Artwork: Engraving by Webster (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
National AssemblyThe interior of the French National Assembly building at the time of the French Revolution. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Subscription RoomDiners and cardplayers in the great subscription room at Brooks Club, St Jamess Street, London. Original Artwork: Engraving by Thomas Rowlandson (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Buying And Selling1854: The London Stock Exchange. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Crystal Palacecirca 1853: The Open Colonnade and Garden Front of the Crystal Palace, under reconstruction in Sydenham, south London. (Photo by Philip Henry Delamotte/Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Haydn Monumentcirca 1900: The monument in Berlin to the German composer Franz Joseph Haydn. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
London Sweep1849: A young chimney sweep dressed in rags and covered in soot. Original Publication: From London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew Original Publication
An Old Songcirca 1800: A woman plays the harpsichord for a gentleman admirer. Original Artist - Hennessy. Engraver - Jenkins (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Great EasternAugust 1865: The breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern. Original Publication: Illustrated London News
Great EasternSeptember 1865: The laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern. Original Publication: Illustrated London News
The Tug Of WarDecember 1878: Little Katie and Johnny wrestle with a Christmas cracker. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Check Those Stripescirca 1895: Wearing a check knickerbocker suit with ribbed three-quarter socks and low-laced oxfords and holding a terrier pup a father sits arm-in -arm between his two daughters clad in stripes
Railway Opening27th September 1825: The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the worlds first public railway. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Poets Walkcirca 1900: Tree lined Well Walk in Hampstead, London beloved of Constable and a favourite haunt of Coleridge and Charles Lamb. It is where Keats composed Endymion and The Eve of St Agnes
Railway JunctionJanuary 1868: Junction of the Midland, Great Northern and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Edgar Allan Poecirca 1845: Author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849). Pioneer of the modern detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Lucky Dogcirca 1900: On a frozen pond one woman pushes a friend and her dog across the ice on a sleigh. A photogravure. (Photo by Henry Stevens/Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Great Western1838: The Great Western Steamship, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with a gross tonnage of 703 tons, passing Portishead on her 1st voyage from Bristol to New York
Free The Park1866: Reform Leaguers fighting with the police at Marble Arch. Use of Hyde Park had been restricted and this was opposed by the Reform League. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Lexington19th April 1773: Hand to hand fighting in the Battle of Lexington, the first battle in the American War of Independence. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Twin Steam-ShipAugust 1875: The twin steamship Castalia a catamaran type passenger ship carrying passengers from Dover to Calais, seen from the bows. Original Publication: The Graphic - The Channel Passage - pub
Revolutionaries1848: A meeting of Revolutionaries in a cellar in Berlin, the plotters are of all ages and classes. Sketch - Hoffman (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Manchester1889: A birds eye view of Manchester in 1889 with various landmarks identified. Original Publication: The Graphic - pub. 1889 Illustration - H W Baker and W Brewer (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
HurdlingApril 1871: Hurdle racing at Brompton. Athletics with sturdy looking hurdles like five-barred gates! Original Publication: The Graphic - Athletic Sports at Brompton-Hurdle Racing - pub
