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Lancashire Regimentcirca 1850: Soldiers of the 30th East Lancashire foot regiment in bright red jackets. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Going To The Wellcirca 1850: A young woman going to collect water from the well. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Distillation20th May 1803: Double apparatus for distillation of spirits. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
At the Pumpcirca 1800: Visitors to the town pump. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Musician Playscirca 1870: A man playing the piano at home while his wife listens and sews. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Connaught Place1840: Traffic on Connaught Place at the corner of Edgware Road, London. Original Artist: By Whitlock (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Funeral Coachman1859: Horse-drawn fire engines galloping towards a blaze in a street. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Letter Readercirca 1860: A man reading a letter lying in a studio country scene. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 121 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)
Bicycle For Twocirca 1880: A double seated safety (or low) tricycle being ridden by a couple reading a book. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
FurnitureCirca 1830: Furniture from the Sixteenth Century. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Visiting The Needycirca 1860: A wealthy villager brings fruit and a book to a woman nursing her sick child. Charity by T Brooks (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Challenge Cup1840: Crowds watch from stands on the riverside as roeing temas make their way along the River Thames during the Henley Regatta Challenge Cup race. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Street DressA proud lady in Edwardian street dress, looks lively for this studio portrait. (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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)