Audience Gallery

Magician performing the cup and balls trick

Undated illustration, coloured, of a magician performing the cup and balls trick to a gathered audience, entitled "Tableaux de Paris: L'Escamoteur, sur le boulevard, pres le Chateau d'Eau" (Lit de Marlet). HPG/8/2/1 (xxi)"

© Mary Evans Picture Library/HARRY PRICE

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The New Standard Theatre, 1845

The New Standard Theatre in Shoreditch, London, showing an equestrian spectacle taking place on stage in 1845, the year that the theatre first opened. The scene depicted here shows "The Conquest of Tartary, or the Eagle Rider of the Circassia, and her Monarch Steed of the Desert", in which a Mrs. R. B Taylor's performance was very striking. Date: 1845

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Winston Churchill watching 47th Division at Lille, France

Winston Churchill as a War Office minister, sitting with others on a grandstand at Lille, France, watching the march past of the 47th (2nd London) Division who liberated Lille from German occupation on 17 October 1918, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

© Robert Hunt Library/Mary Evans

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