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Poster, youth club photography opportunityPoster advertising a youth club photography opportunity. Six members invited to take photos, develop and print them, all equipment provided. Date: circa 1960s
Poster, youth club trip to BrightonPoster advertising a youth club coach trip to Brighton, costing nine shillings, including a visit to The Downs for lunch. Date: circa 1960s
Poster, summer holiday activitiesPoster for young people. Vision -- if you have ideas about activities during the summer holiday please let someone know. Showing a couple doing some underwater swimming. Date: circa 1960s
Youth club poster, Beatles nightYouth club poster advertising a Beatles night, alerting the girls in particular to the fact that four Beatle badges must be won. Details will be broadcast on Radio Glastonbury at 8pm. Date: 1960s
Samuel Brothers, Xmas Gifts in the trenches, WW1Advertisement for Samuel Brothers Ltd of Ludgate Hill, London, suggesting number of practical comforts to be sent as gifts to soldiers in the trenches
Onion-whittling by Heath RobinsonMore underhand ideas from the Germans to defeat their British foe imagined by William Heath Robinson cartoon. The Germans utilise biological weapons; row of onions
Germans Training Wasps to Sting Highlanders Legs, Heath RobHumorous illustration showing more treacherous German ideas for making life difficult for British troops. Here, with the help of the ubiquitous plum jam
Advert for Gamages suggesting gifts for soldiers 1915Advertisement by the famous Holborn store, Gamages, suggesting gifts for Britains " Blue" and " Khaki" Boys
Post-War Utility of the Gas Helmet by Bernard HughSome humorous ideas on how to make use of gas masks following the end of World War One. Date: 1918
The Chipmunk Bagger by Heath RobinsonIngenious contraption for use in the wilds of Brazil, a chipmunk bagger, part of a series by William Heath Robinson in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News called Very Patent Aides to Sport
Advert for the Ministry of Food 1943Twice as good with egg. What a blessing it is that you now use almost as many eggs as you want. Thanks to the success of dried egg in this country
William Lole - 1WILLIAM LOLE Leicestershire hermit and eccentric, known for the extravagance of his ideas, his speech and his clothing. Date: CIRCA 1850
William Lole - 2WILLIAM LOLE Leicestershire hermit and eccentric, known for the extravagance of his ideas, his speech and his clothing. Date: CIRCA 1850
Free Trade Debate - Lord RoseberyCartoon comment accompanied by a quote from a speech by Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (British Liberal Stesman and Prime Minister)
Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). The mystery of Napoleons ideas on Spain. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia
Christmas GiftsBrown, Davis and Co. London E2, Christmas and New Year gifts, 1878 Date: 1878
A Crystal Set-to by William Heath RobinsonA somewhat startling wireless development witnessed on Hampstead Heath during the broadcasting of an interesting dance programme
Young artist at the community kindergartenRadburn, New Jersey, a privately financed model town which furnished some of the ideas for the United States Suburban Resettlement Administrations Greenbelt towns
Advert for The Ministry of Food 1941Don t waste it, advert during the Second World War for not wasting food. Cheap and nourishing, ways of cooking potatoes in a varity of appetising
A Seaside Snap Shot by William Heath RobinsonIngenious method of overcoming the difficulty of taking ones own photograph by bathing devised by the gadget king, and master of silly ideas, William Heath Robinson. Date: 1927
A Philosopher in Ecstasy. Date: ca. 1870
Ideas for Christmas presents for children, 1930Page of ideas in The Tatler for Christmas gifts for children, including a pretty party frock from Rowe, a toy motor-car from Selfridges with Flip the Frog and his family, a toddle cart
Joseph Chamberlain - Coat of Many ColoursIn a picture postcard, Radical politicial Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) is pictured wearing a coat of many colours. Each segment reflects the different stages in his political career: socialist
Bridal fashion feature in Royal Wedding Number, 1923The fashion column of the Illustrated London News in its special Royal Wedding Number, celebrating the marriage of the Duke of York (later King George VI)
New Ideas in Travel for Holidays and LeaveCover illustration for New Ideas in Travel for Holidays and Leave. A man stands on the deck of a ship, looking through binoculars at a yacht passing by on the sea
On The Right LineHow the inventor of the Charleston first received his inspiration for the peculiar rhythm of its intriguing movement. illustration by William Heath Robinson
Middle Eastern Dervish GroupRifai Dervishes - a Dervish order founded by Shaykh Sayyid Ahmad ar-Rifai (1119-1182). Traditional Dervish order found with a marked prescence in Syria, Egypt, Kosovo and Albania
Lear / Nonsense / PortugalThere was a Young Lady of Portugal, whose ideas were excessively nautical; She climbed up a tree, to examine the sea, but declared she would never leave Portugal
Lear / Nonsense / HagueThere was an Old Man of the Hague, whose ideas were excessively vague; He built a balloon to examine the moon, that deluded Old Man of the Hague
Dress And Fashion Note For Skiiers, by A. E. BestallFashion ideas for the first time skiier. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years
No Joke! by Frank ReynoldsA humorous artist, stumped for further jokes on the subject of the First World War, wishes that peace would be declared so he could submit some of his new ideas
Design ideas for the bedroom, 1940Illustration showing a Dunlopillo bed-rest, which supported the users arms and back. The design was available in various colour schemes and materials
Futurist designer dress, 1913A design by the Futurist artist, Leon Bakst, expressing the spring time of the earth, 1913. Bakst designed dresses and scenery for the Russian ballet at this time
France and PeaceLiberty encourages France to pursue peace despite the various political factions causing discontent : unfortunately Bismarck has other ideas
The Turbinia, 1898Photograph of the experimental turbine steamer Turbinia. Built in 1894 to test C.A. Parsons ideas about turbines, Turbinia famously demonstrated her speed at the Fleet Review of 1897
Electing a PresidentGeneral Cavaignac looks on with dismay, Louis Napoleon waits complacently, as France rejects monarchy in favour of a Republic. Napoleon has his own ideas about that
The public in a divorce courtIllustration by Steven Spurrier showing young women in the public gallery of a divorce court. The image accompanied an article in the ILN suggesting that divorce courts should be private
Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; More wetIllustration showing ideas for protective rain wear in the form of various rain shades and capes worn on the head and body
Pythagoras & PriestsPYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher and mathematician, sharing knowledge and ideas with the priests of Egypt
Medallion of MesmerFriedrich Anton (Franz) Mesmer - depicted on a medallion. Mesmer was a German physicist who explored ideas on magnetic and gravitational influences on health
Sultan Selim IIISELIM III - a keen reformer, he angers vested interests with his ideas, is deposed in 1807 and murdered by strangulation after a years imprisonment
Descartes and ChristinaRene Descartes explains his ideas to the scholarly queen Christina of Sweden
Erasmus / David MortierDESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist, whose ideas looked forward to the Enlightenment
Disraeli / Fagin / ReformBENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy as Fagin demonstrates to his boy MPs how to steal ideas for reform out of the pocket of Lord John Russell
Man and SnakeA man meets a snake, and takes his axe with the intention of cutting its head off : the snake has other ideas
Peter I / Scribners 1880PETER I the Great In 1697/8 he toured western Europe picking up ideas : here he is studying shipbuilding at Zaandam in the Netherlands
Fancy Dress HatsThese three young women model the latest ideas for what to wear for a head-dress party - very becoming tricorn hats! Made of panne velvet, with ninon veils under the chin
Fancy Dress IdeasFancy yourself as a Greek goddess ? an American cowgirl sporting a rifle ? a Pierrette ? a lady writer ? or just a splash of colour ?
