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Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Shackletons Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Shackletons Trans-Antarctic Expedition
ANTARCTICA - 1916: Members of an expedition team led by Irish explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton pull one of their lifeboats across the snow in the Antarctic, following the loss of the Endurance

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: St-Leonards-on-Sea

St-Leonards-on-Sea
Bathing machines shelter shy holidaymakers from prying eyes at St-Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, circa 1895. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Praying Hands by Albrecht Durer

Praying Hands by Albrecht Durer
Praying hands by the German artist Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528), circa 1500. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Praying hands, also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Transit Circle

Transit Circle
circa 1885: Observing the sun with the transit circle at Greenwich Observatory. Original Publication: The Graphic 1885 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Imperial Institute

Imperial Institute
circa 1890: The outside of the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Match Girls

Match Girls
Members of the Matchmakers Union who went on strike at the Bryant and Mays factory in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Teasmaid

Teasmaid
March 1950: A teasmaid machine. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Dylan Thomas Drinking & Smoking

Dylan Thomas Drinking & Smoking
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) drinking a glass of beer and smoking while seated at a desk with stacks of his books of poetry, New York City, c. 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Liver Buildings

Liver Buildings
circa 1925: The Liver Buildings in Liverpool, Merseyside, near the citys dockside. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
Anglo-American poet, critic and writer, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965), 1950. (Photo by John Gay/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Jane Austen

Jane Austen
English novelist Jane Austen from an original family portrait. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851), British writer best known for Frankenstein, and second wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Scott Joplin American pianist and composer

Scott Joplin American pianist and composer
American pianist and composer Scott Joplin ((1868 - 1917). Exponent of ragtime. Received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Nietzsche

Nietzsche
circa 1885: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Pancho Villa Sits On Horseback

Pancho Villa Sits On Horseback
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878 - 1923) sits on horseback, wearing a straw hat and ammunition strapped across his shoulders, 1910s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: The Book Of Kells

The Book Of Kells
Circa 800 AD, A manuscript from the illuminated gospel known as the Book of Kells, thought to have been created by Irish monks from the scriptorium of the monastery on the Scottish island of Iona

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Bust Of Augustus

Bust Of Augustus
10 BC, The first Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 BC - 14 AD), the adopted son of Julius Caesar. He received the name Augustus ( sacred)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Portrait of Franz Kafka

Portrait of Franz Kafka
Portrait of Austrian-born writer Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) in a suit with his hair parted down the middle, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter
1889: English writer (Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886), Hungarian composer at the piano. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Beach Pyjamas

Beach Pyjamas
1934: A group of women wearing beach pyjamas. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
circa 1890: English writer Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), the author of Tess of the D Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Rorkes Drift

Rorkes Drift
The Defence of Rorkes Drift during the Zulu War, 22nd January 1879. A painting by Lady Elizabeth Butler, specially commissioned by Queen Victoria to commemorate the bravery of the soldiers who fought

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Portrait Of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

Portrait Of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull
Portrait shows the chief of the Sioux tribe Sitting Bull (1831 - 1890), known as Tatanka Iyotake to his people, as he sits in Bismarck, North Dakota, 1881

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Tam O Shanter

Tam O Shanter fleeing on horseback from the hellish legion, an episode from a verse-narrative by Robert Burns. Original Artwork: Artist - Abraham Cooper RA (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: England Expects

England Expects
Admiral Horatio Nelsons flagship HMS Victory being towed into Gibraltar and also shown moored at Portsmouth. Also shown are the semaphore flags with which Nelson signalled his fleet before the battle

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: British Battleship HMS Royal Oak

British Battleship HMS Royal Oak
circa 1910: British battleship HMS Royal Oak. HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
Anglo-American poet TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). Naturalized British in 1927, Awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Jazz Musicians

Jazz Musicians
A group of musicians playing jazz music which derived from plantation work song hollers and chants, into the blues and Dixieland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: GWR Iron Duke Class Steam Locomotive

GWR Iron Duke Class Steam Locomotive
Vintage engraving of a GWR Iron Duke Class Steam Locomotive. The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Newcastle Upon Tyne
circa 1800: The city of Newcastle upon Tyne, formerly the county town of Northumberland, situated on the River Tyne. Original Artwork: Engraving by Pelton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: The Scots Guard

The Scots Guard
circa 1880: Uniforms of the Scots Guards. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: T E Lawrence

T E Lawrence
British soldier, adventurer and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 - 1935) the Uncrowned King Of The Arabs on the Governors Balcony in Jerusalem

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft
circa 1797: English feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759 - 1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Chicken And Cockerel

Chicken And Cockerel
circa 1880: A pair of fowls. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: A Punt Full Of Swans

A Punt Full Of Swans
1st June 1900: Swans being removed from Henley Reach by punt, in peparation for the practices of Henley Regatta, June 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Moroccan Jew

Moroccan Jew
circa 1890: A middle-class Jew from Tangiers in traditional cloak and cummerbund. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Forth Bridge

Forth Bridge
Construction of the Forth Bridge, on the Firth of Forth at Queensferry in Lothian, 23rd June 1888. The steel cantilever construction was designed by John Fowler

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: US Steel Works

US Steel Works
The blast furnaces and rolling mills of the Homestead Steel Works, Pittsburgh. From a stereograph. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Royal Albert Bridge

Royal Albert Bridge
The Royal Albert Bridge, designed by British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, over the River Tamar at Saltash, under construction. (Photo by Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Forth Bridge

Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge which spans the Firth of Forth at Queensferry in Lothian and is over a mile long. The steel cantilever construction was designed by John Fowler

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Early X-Ray

Early X-Ray
One of the first X-ray photographs, taken by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845 - 1923) and showing his wifes hand, 23rd January 1896. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: View Of West 42nd Street

View Of West 42nd Street
View looking east along West 42nd Street from 6th Ave, New York, New York, circa 1930s. The New York Public Library is visible at right and the skyscraper with the spire (C) is the Chrysler Building

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Olde English Pub

Olde English Pub
circa 1870: Three patrons of an old English tavern sit nursing their drinks in a quiet nook. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol
circa 1900: The Ghost of Christmas Present appears to the miserly Scrooge with a lavish Christmas spread, in a scene from Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Scrooges Third Visitor, by J Leech

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Sea Of Faces

Sea Of Faces
The sailor gazes down at the sea from the deck of his ship and sees the waves transformed into beautiful women. Original Artwork

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Curlew

Curlew
circa 1800: The Curlew, a wading bird named after its plaintive whistling cry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageImages Dated 8th April 2016: Portrait Dempsey

Portrait Dempsey
Date unknown: American Heavyweight, Jack Dempsey. Became World Champion in 1919 by stopping Jess Willard in three rounds at Toledo, Ohio



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