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Background imageEditor's Picks: Hogarth, Beer Street

Hogarth, Beer Street. A political print supporting a ministerial measure against the unlimited sale of gin. A scene of London life in which happy and healthy tradesmen

Background imageEditor's Picks: STS Malcolm Miller under full sail

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Dickens / Empty Chair

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Lynmouth Harbor, Lynton and Lynmouth, England

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: D-Day - British and Canadian troops landing - Juno Beach

D-Day - British and Canadian troops landing - Juno Beach
British and Canadian 3rd Division troops land at Juno Beach. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied troops followed by an

Background imageEditor's Picks: Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: A Happy Pair by Louis Wain

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Hockey - Footwork, Dribbling and Passing demonstrated

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Jesus, the Lord turned to Peter

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Anne Boleyn

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Queen Elizabeth II by Pietro Annigoni in the ILN

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: The Mary Rose

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Horses pulling the plough

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Poster - British Military medals

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)

Background imageEditor's Picks: Matania - Last Absolution of the Munsters

Matania - Last Absolution of the Munsters
The Last General Absolution of the Munsters at Rue du Bois - painting by Fortunino Matania. This painting relates to an incident in France in May of 1915

Background imageEditor's Picks: Daily Sketch Coronation Number 1953 Queen Elizabeth II

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Military Badge

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Hogarth, Gin Lane

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Goodbye Old Man, solder and horse WWI

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: First Portrait of King Charles III

First Portrait of King Charles III
Portrait of King Charles III commissioned from artist Alastair Barford by ILN. The portrait was painted in oils by the artist Alastair Barford

Background imageEditor's Picks: Skegness is SO Bracing by John Hassall

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Puccini / Turandot

Puccini / Turandot
Portrait of Princess Turandot

Background imageEditor's Picks: Colonel David Stirling with a patrol in the desert

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Famous snooker players

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:

Background imageEditor's Picks: Tosca - Music Cover

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Hood

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)

Background imageEditor's Picks: The King of Kings

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Queen Elizabeth II presents Bobby Moore with World Cup

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Jeeves and Wooster, 1922

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: HMS Victory, Flags and Nelson Quote

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: HMS Fearless (L10)

HMS Fearless (L10)

Background imageEditor's Picks: Mrs Tabithas Cat Academy Louis Wain

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Chief Scout Lord Baden Powell

Chief Scout Lord Baden Powell by David Jagger Date: 1929

Background imageEditor's Picks: Queen Elizabeth II in uniform of Grenadier Guards

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Reids Palace Hotel, Madeira advertisement, 1928

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Life in a Boarding House by Eric Ravilious

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. The paintings at the college were the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen

Background imageEditor's Picks: Queen of the Night by Marjorie Miller

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: PADRE PIO

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Pirate Radio ship, Radio Caroline, Essex coast

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Flowers from Mahabaleshwar

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Facsimile of a picture of a dodo by Roelandt

Facsimile of a picture of a dodo by Roelandt Savery in the Royal Gallery, Berlin. Handcoloured lithograph by CDM from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville's The Dodo

Background imageEditor's Picks: Exotic beetles

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: King swallowtail and Jamaican kite butterfly (endangered)

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Imperial moth, gray-banded zale and black zale

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: The Battle of Waterloo

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Falkland Islands Royal Engineer briefing map, 1982

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: War mural of Bobby Sands MP at Belfast

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Gilbert & Sullivan Operas, D'Oyly Carte Souvenir

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Cricket Lord's

Cricket Lord's
The pavillion at Lord's

Background imageEditor's Picks: Poster for Welsh Guards

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Isambard Kingdom Brunel with chains

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: I K Brunel before the hauling chains of the Great Eastern

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: HMS Hermes (R12)

HMS Hermes (R12)

Background imageEditor's Picks: The Cat that Walked by Himself

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'.

Background imageEditor's Picks: Map of Ancient Greece

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Carbolic smoke ball

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Map of the British Empire

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly
Cover of the score of Madame Butterfly by Puccini

Background imageEditor's Picks: Lambretta motor scooter

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Flora, goddess of Spring

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: London Life front cover 1966

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: King George VI - fine photographic portrait

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Advertisement for Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield

Advertisement for Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield. circa 1930

Background imageEditor's Picks: Sensory homunculus

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:

Background imageEditor's Picks: La Boheme Opera Score by Giacomo Puccini

La Boheme Opera Score by Giacomo Puccini

Background imageEditor's Picks: Concorde G-BOAA a Boeing 747 and a VC10

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:

Background imageEditor's Picks: Francis Assisi/Stubenr

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Balloon Project 1785

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: The Broad and Narrow way to Heaven or Hell - Religious concepts

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: The Last Stand of the Imperial Guards at Waterloo

The Last Stand of the Imperial Guards at Waterloo. General Hill calling on upon the Enemy to Surrender.Print by Riddle and Goughman after the painting by Robert Hillingford

Background imageEditor's Picks: Barry Island poster

Barry Island poster
Daily steamship service to Barry Island, Wales

Background imageEditor's Picks: Catford Stadium Advertisement

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.

Background imageEditor's Picks: Lawrence of Arabia

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Entrance to Tottenham Hotspur football ground, c. 1906

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: An Ideal Home No. II. The Folding Garden

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Rhodesia poster

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: JESUS AS LIGHT OF WORLD

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.

Background imageEditor's Picks: Royal Navy recruitment poster

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.

Background imageEditor's Picks: Anatomy of a greyhound

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

Background imageEditor's Picks: Neon Frontage at Walthamstow Dog Racing Stadium

Neon Frontage at Walthamstow Dog Racing Stadium
Famous for its greyhound racing track, Walthamstow Stadium opened in 1933. With a distinctive pink and green neon-lit frontage

Background imageEditor's Picks: Daily Mail War Map, WW1

Daily Mail War Map, WW1
A fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War. The map offers statistics regarding the manpower strength of each of the warring nations

Background imageEditor's Picks: Recruitment poster, Join the Royal Artillery

Recruitment poster, Join the Royal Artillery and know the pride of being a gunner. 1940s



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