Editor's Picks (#2)

Aberystwyth, Wales, from Constitution Hill
Aberystwyth, Wales, viewed from Constitution Hill - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Hogarth, Beer Street. A political print supporting a ministerial measure against the unlimited sale of gin

STS Malcolm Miller under full sail
STS (Sail Training Ship) Malcolm Miller under full sail. circa 1970s

Dickens / Empty Chair
HIS HOME AT GADSHILL His desk and empty chair after his death, dated 9 June 1870

Lynmouth Harbor, Lynton and Lynmouth, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

D-Day - British and Canadian troops landing - Juno Beach
British and Canadian 3rd Division troops land at Juno Beach

Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Her Majesty Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms (1926-2022). Date: 1955

A Happy Pair by Louis Wain
A feline bride and groom stand proudly having just got hitched

Hockey - Footwork, Dribbling and Passing demonstrated. Date: circa 1910s

Jesus, the Lord turned to Peter and looked upon Peter... and Peter remembered

Anne Boleyn (1507? - 1536) Second Queen of King Henry VIII from 1533 until 1536. Mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Date: 1950

Queen Elizabeth II by Pietro Annigoni in the ILN
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth (born 1926), by Pietro Annigoni 1953. The caption below the image is: ELIZABETH II

The Mary Rose, Tudor ship, built in 1510. In service for 34 years, it sank in 1545. Discovered in 1971 it was successfully raised from the sea bed in 1982 amid much publicity. Date: 1982

Horses pulling the plough
Two heavy horses, pull a farmers plough through a newly cut cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Poster - British Military medals
NAVAL, MILITARY AND RAF DECORATIONS AND MEDALS 1793-1973. Poster, revised and edited by Arthur Kipling of the Society for Army Historical Research, 1975 (c)

Matania - Last Absolution of the Munsters
The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois - painting by Fortunino Matania

Daily Sketch Coronation Number 1953 Queen Elizabeth II
Front cover of The Daily Sketch Coronation Number featuring a portrait of the new monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Military Badge
Ulster impressions.Photolithograph after Joan Wanklyn, 1976.Published by Headquarters Northern Ireland, 1976.Shows 18 vignettes of the British Army on operations in Northern Ireland

Hogarth, Gin Lane. A political print supporting a ministerial measure against the unlimited sale of gin (which later became the Gin Act)

Goodbye Old Man, solder and horse WWI
"Goodbye, Old Man" A World War One soldier gives his dying horse a parting kiss. Date: circa 1916

First Portrait of King Charles III
Portrait of King Charles III commissioned from artist Alastair Barford by ILN

Skegness is SO Bracing by John Hassall
Skegness is SO Bracing - the famous poster featuring the jolly fisherman designed for the East Coast seaside town by artist John Hassall. Date: 1908

Puccini / Turandot
Portrait of Princess Turandot

Colonel David Stirling with a patrol in the desert
Colonel David Stirling with a patrol of Special Air Service (SAS) men in the Middle East. Date: 1944

Famous snooker players (Jimmy White, Cliff Thorburn, Peter Ebdon, Denis Taylor, John Parrott, Stephen Hendry, Alex Higgins, Ray Reardon, John Virgo, Steve Davis, Ronnie O Sullivan) - Date:

Tosca - Music Cover
Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Puccinis Tosca

Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Hood, sunk by the German Battleship Bismarck at the Battle of Denmark Strait on 24th May 1941. Named after the 18th-century Admiral Samuel Hood (1724-1816)

The King of Kings -- Jesus Christ surrounded by rulers (kings, queens, emperors, etc) from various countries and periods in history. 1916

Queen Elizabeth II presents Bobby Moore with World Cup
World Cup Final 1966. Queen Elizabeth II presenting the World Cup trophy to England's Bobby Moore victorious after winning the game against West Germany in London on 30 July 1966. Date: 1966

Jeeves and Wooster, 1922
P.G. Wodehouse story in The Strand, March 1922, entitled Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch

HMS Victory, Flags and Nelson Quote
An illustration of Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship, the HMS Victory with signal flags on display and firing a broadside

HMS Fearless (L10)

Mrs Tabithas Cat Academy Louis Wain
Humorous illustration by Louis Wain (1860-1939) showing a feline teacher instructing her kitten pupils

Chief Scout Lord Baden Powell by David Jagger Date: 1929

Queen Elizabeth II in uniform of Grenadier Guards
Queen Elizabeth II (born 1926), pictured on horseback in the uniform of the Grenadier Guards. Date: c.1953

Reids Palace Hotel, Madeira advertisement, 1928
Advertisement for Reids Palace Hotel, Madeira boasting happy sunny days, no rain and unequalled sea bathing besides many other comforts and advantages. 1928

Life in a Boarding House by Eric Ravilious
A modern boarding house in cross section, a mural painted by Eric Ravilious at Morley College for Working Men and Women

Queen of the Night by Marjorie Miller
Moody colour illustration by Marjorie Miller showing woman clad in a diaphonous dress roaming moonlit forests with a savage-looking wolf-like dog

PADRE PIO
Francesco Forgione, name in religion Pio de Pietrelcina, known as PADRE PIO, Capucin friar who manifested stigmata and many other paranormal phenomena

Pirate Radio ship, Radio Caroline, Essex coast
The pirate radio ship, Radio Caroline, anchored off the Essex coast near Walton-on-the-Naze, with a boat alongside. circa 1966

Flowers from Mahabaleshwar (Mahabulashwur). Elephantine creeper, Argyreia nervosa, barberry, Berberis vulgaris, lily, etc

Facsimile of a picture of a dodo by Roelandt Savery in the Royal Gallery, Berlin

Exotic beetles
Centaurus rhinoceros beetle, Augosoma centaurus 1, bee beetle, Trichius fasciatus 2, titan beetle, Titanus giganteus male 3, female 4, Siamese rhinoceros beetle or fighting beetle

King swallowtail and Jamaican kite butterfly (endangered)
King swallowtail butterfly, Papilio thoas 1,2, and Jamaican kite swallowtail, Protographium marcellinus (endangered) 3,4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Imperial moth, gray-banded zale and black zale
Imperial moth, Eacles imperialis 1,2, gray-banded zale, Zale squamularis 3, and black zale, Zale undularis 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

The Battle of Waterloo
Waterloo. Coloured lithograph after Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford, nd.Associated with Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815). Coloured Lithograph Date: 1815

Falkland Islands Royal Engineer briefing map, 1982 (c); with typescript annotations relating to the condition and passibility of airfields, roads and tracks by tracked and wheeled vehicles

War mural of Bobby Sands MP at Belfast
Belfast. War mural of Bobby Sands MP in the end corner of the terrace house. Date: 2011

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by
The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson

Gilbert & Sullivan Operas, D'Oyly Carte Souvenir
D'Oyly Carte's Season of Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, Souvenir Programme, Prince's Theatre, London, 29 September 1919 - 31 January 1920

Cricket Lord's
The pavillion at Lord's

Poster for Welsh Guards
Smart men wanted to join the Welsh Guards, pictured here in full uniform during the Changing of the Guard ceremony at St. James Palace

Isambard Kingdom Brunel with chains
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859) Designer and builder of railroads, bridges, tunnels, steamships, docks &c. pictured in front of the launching chain of the Great Eastern

I K Brunel before the hauling chains of the Great Eastern Date:

HMS Hermes (R12)

The Cat that Walked by Himself
THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF 'Walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods & waving his wild tail'.

Map of Ancient Greece
A map showing the extent of the Greek Empire and the surrounding territories

Carbolic smoke ball
An advertisment placed by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company for the carbolic smoke ball, a 'cure' for all types of ailments.

Map of the British Empire
The Howard Vincent map of the British Empire, 1897 Date: 1897

Madame Butterfly
Cover of the score of Madame Butterfly by Puccini

Lambretta motor scooter
A Lambretta motor scooter parked against a fence.

Flora, goddess of Spring. Roman art. Fresco. Proc: ITALY. Castellammare di Stabia. Stabia.

London Life front cover 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine, the short-lived magazine which documented and encapsulated swinging sixties London, featuring Twiggy photographed with Justin de Villeneuve

King George VI - fine photographic portrait
A very fine photographic portrait of King George VI (1895-1952) - King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth. Date: circa 1939

RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2
RAF Poster, Back Them Up!, showing a British Spitfire shooting down a German bomber during the Second World War. 1940s

Advertisement for Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield. circa 1930

Sensory homunculus
This model shows what a man's body would look like if each part grew in proportion to the area of the cortex of the brain concerned with its sensory perception. Date:

La Boheme Opera Score by Giacomo Puccini

Concorde G-BOAA a Boeing 747 and a VC10
Concorde, G-BOAA, a Boeing 747 and a VC10 at the British Airways stand at J.F. Kennedy Airport, New York. Black and white. Date:

Francis Assisi/Stubenr
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI - preaching to the animals.

Balloon Project 1785
French project for a dirigible balloon : by an unidentified inventor

The Broad and Narrow way to Heaven or Hell - Religious concepts
'THE BROAD AND NARROW WAY' the good take the narrow road to Heaven while the wicked take the broad way to Hell

The Last Stand of the Imperial Guards at Waterloo

Barry Island poster
Daily steamship service to Barry Island, Wales

Catford Stadium Advertisement
Advert for Catford greyhound stadium in Catford, South East London, which opened its doors in July 1932 and has been hosting greyhound races ever since, showing an aerial view of the stadium.

Lawrence of Arabia
British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia. Seen here in RAF uniform on a Brough Superior SS100 motorbike

Entrance to Tottenham Hotspur football ground, c. 1906. Date: c. 1906

An Ideal Home No. II. The Folding Garden
This folding garden for flat dwellers with a love of open-air life will appeal to all householders who enjoy rustic amenities in a urban setting. The second of the Ideal Home designs by W

Rhodesia poster
Union Castle Line to Rhodesia poster, 1908 Date: 1908

JESUS AS LIGHT OF WORLD
Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader of Jewish origin who preached 'Christianity', depicted here as The Light of the World, knocking at the door of the human soul.

Royal Navy recruitment poster. Stokers required, no previous experience necessary, age 18 to 25 years. Apply to the Royal Navy Recruiting Office, Naval Base, Great Yarmouth.

Anatomy of a greyhound
Anatomical drawing of the muscles of a greyhound, precisely labelled.

Neon Frontage at Walthamstow Dog Racing Stadium
Famous for its greyhound racing track, Walthamstow Stadium opened in 1933

Daily Mail War Map, WW1
A fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War

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