Beginning Collection

Its Mine, Poster, Canada, the right land for the right man, with Canadian National Railways

Canada, the right land for the right man Poster, showing a man farming and harvesting wheat, by Canadian National Railways

I m beginning to think somebody loves me! by G. E Studdy
Colour illustration by George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) showing Bonzo the dog sitting in his basket enjoying a pet from his owner and a bone in his dog bowl

Your Britain - Fight for it NOW - World War 2 public information Poster designed by Abram Games for the War Office - first published in 1942. Date: 1942

Daily Telegraph front pages, 1914, 1918 and 1919, WW1
Daily Telegraph front pages for 3 August 1914 and 11 November 1918, marking the beginning and end of the First World War

Bernadette / Grotto 1905
The grotto of Massabielle at the beginning of the 20th century - showing the statue, and crutches left by those who, miraculously, don t need them any more

Charles Haddon SpurgeonN (young)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) English Baptist minister and noted preacher at the beginning of his career

Cartoons, The Great Chartist Demonstration -- No. IX, The Beginning and the End. 1848

Short S23 Empire Flying Boat G-ADHM Caledonia
Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADHM, Caledonia, at the beginning of its first flight at Rochester. 11 September 1936. Date: 1936

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Leviathan, a Drake-class armoured cruiser. HMS Leviathan was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900

Spring Announced 1876
Spring is announced to a pretty lady at a window

Suffragette Womens Freedom League Caravan. The Womens Freedom toured the South of England in a purpose built caravan, beginning in May 1908

London Territorial regiments at the start of WWI
Just before the British Army was mobilised following the outbreak of World War I, a number of London Territorial regiments were on their war to camp for their annual training when they were ordered

Children Drinking C1840
Two young children share a jug of gin outside a tavern. Are they beginning a life of intemperate misery, foulness and degradation in the eyes of God?

The steam-ship Roosevelt departing for the Arctic, 1908
Photograph of the steam-ship Roosevelt departing for the Arctic at the beginning of Robert E. Pearys 1908-1909 North Pole Expedition

Nuremberg / General 1501
A general view of the city at the beginning of the 16th century

King James II landing at Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, 12 March 1689. This marked the beginning of the Williamite War in Ireland (1689-1691)

Tesco Stores Ltd, The Modern Grocers
Tesco in its infancy: Tesco Stores Ltd, The Modern Grocers. Date: circa 1950s

WW1 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Patriotic message
An inset portrait accompanies a message to the German people from Kaiser Wilhelm II a month after the start of the First World War - 26th August 1914 (the war began on 28th July 1914). Date: 1914

Beginning of World War Two, where sailors are relaxing in a destroyer escorting a Convoy. Date: 1939

French Revolution, Attack on the Bastille, Paris Date: 1789

Napoleon Et Les Femmes Part 2
Part two of a series of four illustrations portraying a lady in company with Napoleon Bonaparte, who can be seen in the background, through the doorway, sat at his desk, looking over his shoulder

White Star Line, RMS Olympic - News Bulletin and stationery
White Star Line, RMS Olympic - News Bulletin dated 19 September 1914, and unused on board stationery. Date: 1914

RMS Titanic - Harland and Wolff drawing of floating crane
RMS Titanic - extremely rare Harland and Wolff linen backed scale drawing of the 150-200 ton 1- 80 scale floating crane, designed by Bertha Krupps and fabricated by Benrather Maschinenfabrik AG

Justinian Digesta, Books V and VI (Fragment)
Bifolium from a copy of Justinian's Pandects, or Digesta Justiniani Augusti, parchment. Containing part of the end of Book V (De Judiciis) and the beginning of Book VI (De Rei Vindicatione)

Hebrew Manuscript Fragments
Two folios, parchment, probably from the same manuscript but not necessarily consecutive. Text is from the Book of Genesis, beginning at Chapter 7, verse 18 on f.1, and ends at Chapter 48 on f.2

Degas Sculpture of a Horse
A bronze sculpture of a horse just beginning to rear, stood on a square base. An exhibition of the complete bronzes of Degas was held at the Abdy Gallery. Date: circa 1930

A Poor old Lancashire Spinner on Strike
A humourous postcard from the Lancashire Cotton Towns when organised strikes were beginning to take hold around 1910 Date: circa 1912

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

HMS Swiftsure - Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Royal Navy - HMS Swiftsure, the lead ship of the Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleship, moored up. Originally known as Constitucion, ordered by the Chilean Navy

Indian, Canadian and South Africa Troops Fighting 1914
An Unpleasant Surprise for the Kaiser! Date: September 1914

A member of the Republican Women's Militia, on guard duty in Madrid, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War 1936. Date: 1936

Map of Spain showing the situation at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. The heaviest fighting in July took place in the places underlined on the map: Madrid, Barcelona, Oviedo

Republican Troops attacking the Alcazar, Toledo; Spanish Civ
Photograph showing a unit of Republican troops attacking the Alcazar at Toledo during the Spanish Civil War, 1936. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War

The Barrack Stores of the Alcazar, Toledo; Spanish Civil War
Photograph showing the ruined barrack stores of the Alcazar at Toledo after the 70 day siege during the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Moroccan Nationalist Troops parading in Burgos; Spanish Civi
Photograph showing the Moroccan troops of General Franco's Army of Africa taking part in a parade in Burgos, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Date: 1936

A Moroccan sergeant of General Franco's Army of Africa, near Madrid, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Date: 1936

HMS Forward - Forward-class Scout Cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Forward, a Forward-class Scout Cruiser. Forward was built by Fairfield???s S.B. & E. at Govan, in 1904. The ship was in reserve for most of the first decade of her existence

HMS Hermes, Highflyer-class protected cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes, a Highflyer-class protected cruiser, before conversion to an experimental seaplane carrier / tender

Papa to shopwalker: Oh er -I wanta Noahs Ark. Date: 1914

Lord Kitchener and Lord Haldane arriving at the War Office
Photograph of (right) Lord Kitchener (1850 - 1916), accompanied with Lord Haldane (1856 - 1928), who was the current Lord Chancellor and former War Minister, arriving at the War Office

Memorial to 15th Battalion Canadian Highlanders
This bronze plaque, mounted in a brick plinth, records the part played by the 15th on the Gravenstafel Ridge during the Second Battle of Ypres (the Gas Attacks)

Bus House CWGC Voormezeele, Belgium
Marking places on battefields is always a tricky business. hence the use of simple identifiers such as Lone Tree, Railway Corner etc. Our old friend Rose Coombs told how this cemetery got its name

Women queuing for ration books, WW2
Women queuing outside a Food Office for ration books at the beginning of the Second World War. 1939

French Revolution, destruction of Bastille, Paris
French Revolution, destruction of the Bastille Prison, Paris. 1789

Adelaide Hall (music sheet Thats the Beginning of the End
Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

The Dream Pedlar - I m beginning to enjoy myself
I m beginning to enjoy myself - illustration in The Dream Pedlar by Lady Margaret Sackville. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration

US 507th Parachute Inf Regiment Memorial Amfreville
The figure stands in a Memorial Park unveiled by the Mayor on 23 July 2002. The structure is titled The Beginning and lists the medals

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