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Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913
coventry, anti, apartheid, demo
British soldiers firing at a German plane, WW1British soldiers of the Royal Horse Artillery attached to the 1st Cavalry Division firing at a German plane with an automatic rifle (a Hotchkiss Mark 1)
Campaigning against animal cruelty, 1940sCampaigners against animal cruelty demonstrating with greyhound dogs and several placards. 1940s
anti, apartheid, demonstrators
British gunners at work beneath a flak-filled sky, WW2British gunners at work beneath flak-filled sky during the Second World War. They are using a Vickers 3.7 inch a (anti-aircraft) gun on a static mounting. Date: 1939-1945
British anti-aircraft gun in action near Nieppe, France, WW1A British 18 pound anti-aircraft gun mounted on a lorry under the command of Captain C A Montimore, 4th Division RA (Royal Artillery), in action near Nieppe, northern France
British Pom Pom anti-aircraft gun, WW1A British one pounder Pom Pom anti-aircraft gun, mounted on a field gun carriage. It was used by the 6th Siege Battery RGA (Royal Garrison Artillery) during the First World War
Anti-bandit campaign in CorsicaArmoured cars and armed guards protect the police and army officers as they scour the countryside around Calcatoggio, during the anti-bandit campaign in Corsica. 1932
Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favouriteMr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892
Flying out another girl for the HaremHand-drawn anti-Turkish French propaganda card depicting a semi-naked woman being sent as a volunteer to the Sultans Harem via a Turkish kite! circa 1910s
Jules Ferry (Photo)JULES FRANCOIS CAMILLE FERRY French statesman, favoured colonial expansion, held anti-clerical views. Date: 1832 - 1893
Knight of Grand SerpentThe ceremonial initiation of a Knight of the Bronze Serpent : the participants march anti- clockwise round a tumulus surmounted by a caduceus - a crucifix with a serpent Date: 1890s
Wandering Jew on JourneyThe Jew on his endless journey. A vision of the crucifix haunts him with the memory of how he was cursed to wander until Judgement Day for refusing Jesus rest
Richard Oastler, factory reformerRichard Oastler (1789-1861) was a labour reformer and abolitionist, born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He fought for the rights of working children in the Factory Act of 1847
WWI - Launch of a German TorpedoThe launch of a torpedo from the deck of a German warship during World War One
Anti-splash car / W H RobinsonA friendly driver spots a messy incident in the making and lowers his anti-splash device (an umbrella on a mechanical arm)
Anti tank fighting WWISoldiers using a flamethrower against a tank during World War I on the Western Front
German flag gun WWIGerman 3.7cm flag gun on the Western Front during World War I
French machine gun WWIFrench machine gun in action against German aircraft during World War I Date: 1914-1918
British anti-aircraft battery WWIIMore heavy snow has fallen in France and the British Expeditionary Force is again contending with Arctic weather conditions during World War II
French tank obstacles WWIIConcrete dragon teeth tank obstacles line a field in northern France. The workers who built it file past
German troops in France WWIIGerman anti-tank company en route for the front in France, camouflaged against air attack
Mannerheim line anti-tank defences WWIIRapidly improvised anti-tank devices are constructed by sawing down trees at a height of 10 feet and banking them up with timber and rock during World War II
Pacifist posters outside St. Georges Church in Bloomsbury, London, during World War II
Berlin Demonstration 1919Demonstration against the terms of peace in Berlin, Germany. Crowds passing the Hotel Adlon where Allied Missions are staying on 14th May 1919
Police search, GermanyPolice conduct searches of people on a crackdown against the Commune in pre-war Germany
Arthur Ranc / GillArthur Ranc (1831-1908), Duel fighting, French politician and writer. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III, imprisoned for belonging to a secret society
a Searchlight BatterySLC radar equipment on an anti-aircraft searchlight battery on the Home Front in England during World War II in 1945
Home Front World War IIA party of London Anti-aircraft gunners watching a dogfight on the Home Front in England during World War II
Anti-Pope Christophorus, his reign ended by his being murdered
Rubber anti-gas suit 1918Private Sloan wearing a rubber anti-gas suit as a protection against gas attacks at Croix de Claremont on the Western Front in France during World War I in August 1918
The suffrage debate: two extreme portraitsThe anti-suffragette as seen by the suffragette, and the suffragette as seen by the anti-suffragette: a coy and slightly demonic looking young woman in evening wear simpers at the viewer
Andr-Saturnin Morin / GillAndr-Saturnin Morin (1807-1888) French anti-religious writer
Conscription Act of 1917Some 5000 women appeared outside New York City Hall on 16th June 1917 to present an anti-registration petition to the mayor. Two women rioters are arrested for fighting with police
French anti-aircraft gunners - WWIWorld War One - French Army with anti-aircraft guns and their spotter with a large telescope! Date: circa 1906
Know-Nothing DemoStreet demo in New York by the Know- Nothing party, nativists who represented themselves as American patriots but were in effect anti-Catholic protesters
Anti-airship batteryA sketch of war. One of the first anti-aircraft guns - a French artllery team with a gun on a rotating mounting, specifically used to target airships
Canadian dog teams, Russia 1919Canadian dog teams and sleighs in the snowy landscape of North Russia. Canadian troops formed part of the allied intervention force fighting on the side of the anti-Bolsheviks during the Russian
British troops in VladivostockBritish troops, from either the 9th Battalion Hampshire Regiment or 25th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, parade in Vladivostock, their first port of call on their way to Omsk, in Siberia
Queen Ena of Spain as a nurseQueen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, formerly Princess Ena of Battenberg (1887-1969), second child and only daughter of Princess Beatrice
Early Turkish anti-aircraft gun teamEarly anti-aircraft gunners. Turkish troops shooting down a Pigeon flying machine in the early years of the First World War
Prince Louis of Battenberg with his sonsPrince Louis of Battenberg (1854-1921), British First Sea Lord in 1914 with his sons, George (right) and Louis (Lord Louis Mountbatten)
Christian propaganda postcardA postcard depicting the Ayasofya Mosque with a fascinating inset picture showing the Turkish crescent shoe stamping on the Christian cross and on the reverse of the card the caption reads
German Artillery Gun, Second World War, 1945Photograph showing a wrecked German 88-mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank gun in Belgium, January 1945. This gun had been abandoned by the retreating German army after the Battle of the Bulge
Sailors carrying potatoes onto HMS Coventry, Second WorldPhotograph showing the seamen of HMS Coventry carrying sacks of potatoes onto their ship, as it is refitted at a British dockyard in 1940. HMS Coventry was an anti-aircraft cruiser of 4290 tons
The Mohne Dam before the Dambusters Raid; Second World WarAerial photograph showing the Mohne Dam and reservoir (top) before the Dambusters raid of 16th May 1943. Anti-torpedo nets can be seen just above the dam in this photograph
Anti-Aircraft Rockets, Britain; Second World War, 1944Photograph showing the firing of anti-aircraft rockets at night, by British Home Guard units, during 1944