Famine Collection

Alexis Soyer
French-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books

FAMINE VICTIMS
Encampment of famine victims at Novorossisk. Date: 1922

Selling dogs for food 1871
Selling dogs for food in front of the horse market during the Paris Commune Date: 1871

Fund Committee in Coventry 1861
Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861

Lee-Richards Annular Biplane at Famine Point at Heysham in 1911. Date: 1911

The Ministers dream
The Ministers Dream. A cartoon showing Robert Peel struggling with the problems posed by the Irish famine. Date: 1845

Food riot in Dungarvon
During the famine in Ireland a food riot breaks out in Dungarvon Date: 1846

Dunmanway from the Cork Road bridge
The road leading into the town of Dunmanway, from the bridge on the Cork Road, in Ireland. Referring to the Irish famine at this time

Sketches in the west of Ireland
A page from the Illustrated London News, of Sketches in the West of Ireland by James Mahony. The illustrations are of scenes encountered by the artist in Cahera, Mienies

Stalybridge riot 1863
A company of Hussars arrive from Manchester to support the local police, who have armed themselves with cutlasses, in quelling disturbances on the streets of Stalybridge

Famine St Petersburg
Distress among the Russian poor : queuing at a soup kitchen in St Petersburg

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