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Poster seeking women for the ATS and WaF
Poster seeking women to join the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) and WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) -- full information at the nearest recruiting centre or your employment exchange

Poster, Join the Thrift Column (a play on words -- not the Fifth Column!). Advertising the Post Office Savings Bank. Showing a long queue of people waiting to open their accounts. 20th century

Greyhounds in Country
Three Greyhounds in the countryside, two standing and looking very alert whilst the third runs to join them. Date: 1919

Population Postcard 1930
French postcard encouraging population growth - If France is to live, join the Alliance against depopulation... Date: 1930s

Army recruitment poster for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. It is simply a black and white photograph of a soldier in uniform, beckoning to others to join him

Shock absorbers in action
An artistic photograph of a train suspension system in action, absorbing the shock of the wheel on a rail when in motion. A photograph used in an advertisement for Rocksil rock wool - used

The world went very well then
The World Went Very Well Then - A boy in naval uniform is invited to join a naval man " Come aboard Sir, with submission and dutiful respect"

Aint Got No Time
A workmans wife resists an invitation to join the Cause and change the laws of the land - Ain t got no time, mum

Gorilla at London Zoo, 1887
Engraving showing the first gorilla to join the collection at the Zoological Societys Gardens (London Zoo), 1887

The Restraining Hand
Constantine I, King of the Hellenes wonders whether to join the Triple Entente, or to remain neutral. The mailed fist of the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, tries to influence his decision

Christmas Leave
Two soldiers return home to join in the peace celebrations in time for Christmas. They are accompanied by a number of ravishing women with newly cropped hair

Find the Man Who Has Enlisted
A propagandist illustration during World War One contrasting the pride and satisfaction of the man who has enlisted to join up, with the shame of one who has not

Armistice Week Rejoicings in the West End
A scene at Piccadilly Circus in central London giving an impression of victory celebrations at the end of World War I. Various soldiers join civilians

British Overseas Airways Stewardesses, 1943
Photograph showing two stewardesses (on right) of the British Overseas Airways, in the stern of a motor-launch, heading out to join a waiting flying-boat, 1943

Patriot Volunteers
Volunteers to join the insurgent army at Janow sail across the San river

Insurgent Volunteers
At Krakow, a party of volunteers slip out of the town at night to elude the Russians and join the forces of insurrection

Between two stools the Bottom goes to the Ground
George Tierney falls between two stools, a tattered Whig Stool and a smart Tory Stool. Amused and standing either side are Fox and Addington

Lady Jane Franklin (1792-1875)
Engraving of Lady Jane Franklin, nee Griffin, the wife of the English explorer, Sir John Franklin. Lady Jane travelled extensively with Sir John through Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Tasmania

A Derby night
Illustration by S. Begg showing a long queue of men lining up to enlist. Lord Derby, Director General of Recruiting in 1916 introduced the Derby scheme which encouraged men from the same offices or

Cemetery for Australian officers at Gallipoli
A cemetery for Australian officers at Gallipoli. As part of the British Empire, Australians rushed to join up after the announcement of war in 1914. 8000 Australians lost their lives at Gallipoli

Republican Recruitment Drive, Madrid; Spanish Civil War, 193
Photograph showing a female Republican supporter giving a speech on top of a car, Madrid, 1936. It was reported that she was calling for more volunteers to join the Republican army

Fable / Eagle & Magpie
THE EAGLE AND THE MAGPIE The magpie, invited by the eagle to join him, gossips and thus offends him by indiscretion

Source of Tigris
The river Tigris (Shatt Dijla in Arabic) has its source in a lake in Kurdistan, whence it flows into Iraq to join the Euphrates, passing through Mosul and Baghdad

Italian Recruit
The King of Italy seeks to rally his subjects to the war but they are reluctant to join the predators... Date: June 1915

Reluctant Guards
Gardes Nationales who refuse to join the Communards are deprived of their weapons

Le Creusot Strike 4
Strike at Le Creusot ironworks - dispute between the strikers and workers who refuse to join the strike

Reluctant Conscript
Communards compel a reluctant citizen to join their force

Le Creusot Strike 3
Strike at Le Creusot ironworks - fracas between the strikers and workers who refuse to join the strike

Garibaldi & Carlo A
The meeting between Garibaldi and Carlo Alberto, king of Piedmont, when the king is persuaded to join in the war for independence from Austria

Allies Propaganda Card
The Allies join hands in their resolve to defeat Germany in the First World War

Disobedience Forum
Handbill issued by the Committee of 100 inviting you to join Bertrand Russell at a Mass Forum on Civil Disobedience against Nuclear weapons

Girl Reads to Boy 1911
A girl reads from a book to a lazy boy, while another boy walks by, and wishes he could join them

Conscription / Russia 1941
Young men register to join the Russian army. Conscription was introduced on 23 June 1941

Social / Paris Winter 1902
Street people and workers gather round a brazier in the streets of Paris : a policeman on his rounds would like to join them

Beach Ball Girl / Woof
Pretty blonde bathing beauty, wearing white court shoes & a pale blue, halter-neck one- piece costume, entices the viewer to join in her game of beach ball

Lusitania Recruitment
WWI recruitment poster imploring men to join up and avenge the Lusitania, a passenger ship which was torpedoed without warning by a German U-boat in May 1915

Polish Revolutionaries
Volunteers leave Grodno to join the uprising against Russian domination

Trotskys Fathers Curse
Trotskys old father, in the synagogue of Ekaterinoslav, asks the congregation to join him in cursing his son who has brought so many tears and so much blood to Russia

Vitt. Em. at Florence
Vittorio Emanuele II leaves Florence (currently the capital of Italy) to join his army in the Seven Weeks War which will force Austria to relinquish the Veneto

English Volunteers
English volunteers en route to join Garibaldis army at Palermo

Naples Annexation - 2
The people of Naples vote to join a Italy united under Vittore Emanuele

Vittorio Em. at Florence
Vittorio Emanuele enters firenze (Florence) : soon the people will vote to join the united Italy

Naples Annexation
The people of Naples vote to join a united Italy

Voting at Bologna
The people of Bologna vote to join the united Italy

British / Indian Army Ww1
" India will help" -- A British and an Indian officer join forces to fight the enemy

Women Volunteers 1861
THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT The scene at Wimbledon Camp when the whole family - ladies included - join the Volunteer Movement

Ww1 Postcard Join Up?
Young man in civilian dress sees how uniforms attract the girls - he decides to join up as soon as the war is over

Invincible & Inflexible
At the Battle of the Falkland Islands, British cruisers Invincible and Inflexible leave Port Stanley to join the rest of the fleet

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