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Background imageBased Collection: Women WW1 Work

Women WW1 Work
A group photograph of View Room Girls at Thornycrofts, the shipbuilding and engineering firm which was based at Woolston, Hampshire. The card is dated by the sender, 27th May 1917 and is marked K.A

Background imageBased Collection: Ryan YPT-16 -based on their earlier STM sport plane, Ry

Ryan YPT-16 -based on their earlier STM sport plane, Ryan built thousands of these pilot trainers, as well as operating training schools

Background imageBased Collection: Heinkel He 115C -this torpedo bomber was mainly based i

Heinkel He 115C -this torpedo bomber was mainly based in Norway from where it attacked Allied Arctic convoys

Background imageBased Collection: Abel Fletchers Mill - Abbey Mill, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershi

Abel Fletchers Mill - Abbey Mill, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershi
Abel Fletchers Mill - Abbey Mill, Tewkesbury, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The fictional Abel Fletchers Mill in Dinah Craiks novel John Halifax

Background imageBased Collection: RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). The Thinker. 1902. Based

RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). The Thinker. 1902. Based on The Divine Comedy of Dante and entitled the portal The Gates of Hell. Contemporary Art. Sculpture on bronze. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE

Background imageBased Collection: Codex Granatensis: Tacuinum Sanitatis. 1400. Folio

Codex Granatensis: Tacuinum Sanitatis. 1400. Folio 85r. Illustration about dates, Fruits which strengthen the bladder. Codex C-67 of Granada with fragment of medieval handbook on health

Background imageBased Collection: BRY, Theodor de (1528-1598). Americae tertia pars

BRY, Theodor de (1528-1598). Americae tertia pars memorabile provinciae Brasiliae historiam contines. 1592. Third part of the series Grand Voyages

Background imageBased Collection: Codex granatensis, c. 1400. Tacuinum sanitatis. Persimmon

Codex granatensis, c. 1400. Tacuinum sanitatis. Persimmon
IBN BUTLAN, Abu-l Hasan al-Mujtar (c. 1001 - 1066). Nestorian Christian physician and philosopher of Baghdad. Folio 84v. Illustration about persimmons, which preserve of drunkenness

Background imageBased Collection: Emmeline Pankhurst Importance of the Vote

Emmeline Pankhurst Importance of the Vote. Pamphlet by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) The Importance of the Vote based on a speech given at the Portman Rooms, 24th March 1908 Date: 1908

Background imageBased Collection: Suffragette Votes for Sheep Martyr

Suffragette Votes for Sheep Martyr. Little Bo Peep stands with her shepherds crook holding a picture of a sheep in a prison cell, with Votes for Women as the headline, and a martyr beneath

Background imageBased Collection: Imperial Army Series Drill and Field Training. - WWI

Imperial Army Series Drill and Field Training. - WWI
Imperial Army Series Drill and Field Training - Attack, Defence, Outposts, Scouting, Bayonet Fighting, Field Sketching, Night Operations - based on Infantry Training 1914 (4-Company Organisation)

Background imageBased Collection: Inmates of John Grooms Orphanage for Maimed and Crippled Gi

Inmates of John Grooms Orphanage for Maimed and Crippled Girls at Clacton-on-Sea. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher

Background imageBased Collection: Hoo Union Workhouse, Hoo St Werburgh, Kent

Hoo Union Workhouse, Hoo St Werburgh, Kent
The Hoo Union Workhouse erected in 1836 near Hoo St Werburgh, based on a design by Sir Francis Head. The view shows the courtyard on the inner side of the entrance. Date: Circa 1912

Background imageBased Collection: Paradise and the Peri - The Treasure from the watercolour

Paradise and the Peri - The Treasure from the watercolour
This illustration of a woman discovering a chest of treasure is based on Schumanns music and Thomas Moores poem Lalla Rookh. Date: Christmas Number 1923

Background imageBased Collection: George Biggin, Letitia Sage and Vincenzo Lunardi

George Biggin, Letitia Sage and Vincenzo Lunardi
Lithograph of George Biggin, Letitia Sage and Vincenzo Lunardi ascending from St Georges Fields, London, 29 June 1785 (Cuthbert-Hodgson Collection)

Background imageBased Collection: Four Gloster Meteor F4s of 245 Squadron based at Horsham

Four Gloster Meteor F4s of 245 Squadron based at Horsham
Four Gloster Meteor F4s of 245 Squadron, based at Horsham St Faith (now Norwich Airport) in the air. April 1948. Date: 1948

Background imageBased Collection: The prototype de Havilland Mosquito TT39 PF489

The prototype de Havilland Mosquito TT39 PF489
The prototype de Havilland Mosquito TT39, PF489. The TT39 shore-based naval target tug was produced by converting BXVIs

Background imageBased Collection: Death penalty. Tied to a cart wheel, the condemned

Death penalty. Tied to a cart wheel, the condemned
" Death penalty. Tied to a cart wheel, the condemned man is being beaten while he confesses his sins. Table 14. Illustration from " The miseries of war", 1633

Background imageBased Collection: Main characters from the opera Ivanhoe (1891)

Main characters from the opera Ivanhoe (1891)
" Main characters from the opera " Ivanhoe" (1891), libretto by Julian Sturgis and music by Arthur Sullivan, based on Walter Scotts novel

Background imageBased Collection: Sundays Child by May Bowley

Sundays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Background imageBased Collection: An Ancient Roman Playground in a Modern French Resort

An Ancient Roman Playground in a Modern French Resort
This image depicts the New Bath at Deauville in Normandy by F. Matania. The baths were based on the classic style of ancient Rome providing luxury to wealthy travellers

Background imageBased Collection: Fighting Stralsund

Fighting Stralsund
The Danish fleet attacks vessels of its trading rivals, the Hanseatic League based at Stralsund, Germany

Background imageBased Collection: Life on Venus

Life on Venus is certain to be largely based on its extensive oceans : we can expects its inhabitants to be aquatic creatures of various kinds

Background imageBased Collection: Rudge Whitworth Bicycles

Rudge Whitworth Bicycles
A brightly coloured advertising card for Rudge-Whitworth bicycle company based in Coventry

Background imageBased Collection: Carbonari Initiated / 1820

Carbonari Initiated / 1820
New members are initiated into the Carbonari, the Italian nationalist secret society. The oath of initiation was based on that of the Freemasons

Background imageBased Collection: Roman Augur

Roman Augur
An augur of ancient Rome utters prophecies based on the corn eaten by his hens

Background imageBased Collection: Girl in Aeroplane Hat

Girl in Aeroplane Hat
A smiling young woman balances on her head a large & unusual aeronautically inspired hat based on a bi-plane. It has an extremely big propellor

Background imageBased Collection: Dinner Dress 1913

Dinner Dress 1913
Sprigged print robe by Doucet based on classical drapery: V -neck bodice with fill-in, dolman sleeves, tunic draped from a high waist, trained tango style skirt

Background imageBased Collection: Pope Clemens V

Pope Clemens V
POPE CLEMENS V (Bertrand de Got) detained in France, he became the first pope to be based in Avignon instead of Rome

Background imageBased Collection: Electric Vampire

Electric Vampire
THE ELECTRIC VAMPIRE (F H Power) - insect produced by electricity (based on Crosses experiments) The monster claims a victim

Background imageBased Collection: O Lord O Lord! I can not - I never shall remember?

O Lord O Lord! I can not - I never shall remember?
O Lord O Lord! I can not - I never shall remember all these cursed conversions, filings, marches, counter marches and wheelings

Background imageBased Collection: Scottish Womens Hospitals Royaumont

Scottish Womens Hospitals Royaumont
A fleet of ambulances outside the Abbaye de Royaumont, France, where the Scottish Womens Hospitals based their first unit in 1914. They worked with the French Red Cross. Date: circa 1914

Background imageBased Collection: Chlamydomonas nivalis, Red snow alga

Chlamydomonas nivalis, Red snow alga - Red snow alga (Chlamydomonas nivalis) and unidentified fungal spores. Colour print based on watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1819

Background imageBased Collection: Animals at a French Zoo - heucorya (?)

Animals at a French Zoo - heucorya (?) - animal with slender back-curving horns. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Slide 8



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