Citizens Collection

The British Empire
Citizens of the British Empire, the Greatest Empire the World has ever known

Soviet propaganda poster: a Red Army officer, fearing civil disorder during a strike, asks the citizens to hand in their weapons

Womens Suffrage Millicent Fawcett
Photograph shows Millicent Garrett Fawcett ahead of a banner proclaiming Woman Citizens Mrs. Fawcett, President of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies

Boston Tea Party 1773
Boston citizens, dressed as Indians, board English ships and throw tea chests into the harbour in protest against taxation

Samurai Elevated
In the 8th century, during the Fujiwara era, the military order of Samurai are elevated to an elite rank above other citizens, with a strict moral code and high cultural values

Poster advertising the Special Constabulary, seeking fit men and women for part-time voluntary service. Civil Defence is Common Sense. Ask for details at your local police station. 1940s

Watford in 1826
The High Street of Watford, Hertfordshire, with a carriage, a coach, a wagon and numerous citizens going about their business

Petticoat Lane, 1856
Petticoat Lane market on Sunday morning - a policeman casts a cold eye on the street traders, some of whom may not be wholly law-abiding citizens

Old women walking togther down the street, 1920s
Two old ladies walk down the street arm in arm, wearing winter coats and carrying hand bags, c. 1920s. Date: c. 1920s

Old men, Bermeo, Spain
Old men - three with traditional Basque berets - sit on a park bench in Bermeo, Biscay, Spain. Date: 1990

A Moorish Market
An oil painting of a market populated mainly by citizens of a town in north Africa, of the Muslim faith. Date: circa 1921

The Nativity
A woodcut showing a nativity scene, with the Virgin Mary looking down at her miracle child, overlooked by a cluster of angelic figures

Market Day, Villefranche
A watercolour looking down on the scene of French citizens, gathered outside a grocery store on market day, in Villefranche, on the Riviera, southwest of Monaco. Date: circa 1924

France. 1848, 23 to 25 February Revolution. Engraving
France. 1848, 22-24 February Revolution, uprising of students, workers and National Guard to force the abdication of the king and proclaim the Second Republic. Engraving

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Ciutadans, adheriu-vos a l'homenatge a la URSS en el seu XX aniversari (Citizens, join the hommage to the USSR in its 10th anniversary). Poster (1937)

Adverts for Women's Military and Civil Clothing WWII
Two adverts for women's clothing first from Moss Bros for the Auxiliary Territorial Service Officer's uniform made from Barathea or Whipcord, supplied read to wear

A sing-song in the British Embassy at Madrid, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936. A number of British citizens in Madrid had sought refuge in the Embassy

ANTI=VIETNAM DEMO
Anti-Vietnam Demo, calling for an end to the war and for the release of Lieutenant William Calley, imprisoned in 1971 for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai village. Date: early 1970s

Hall Memory Death War Memorials Built 1920s Memorial
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AMERICAN WAR LOAN POSTER
This American poster exhorts citizens to Buy more liberty bonds with the heartrending slogan Must children die and mothers plead in vain? Date: circa 1917

ALGIERS CEMETERY
Friday is the holy day of Islam, and on this day pious citizens of Algiers come to the cemetery to pay their respects to the dead. Date: 1906

WWI/FRENCH LIST OF DEAD
At the end of the war, a schoolmaster reads out a list of those local citizens who have died in the conflict. Date: 1918

SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA Agostina, the Maid of Saragossa rallies her fellow- citizens to resist the French, but in vain, the city is taken 21 February 1809 Date: Dec 1808 - Feb 1809

During the Siege of Calais by Edward III, six burghers offer themselves as ransom for their fellow-citizens : his wife Philippa intercedes, and their lives are spared Date: 1346/1347

SULLA PROSCRIBES FOES
Sulla, now dictator, posts lists of proscribed citizens who oppose his politics, and are condemned to death Date: 81 BC

Russians wearing gas-masks in precaution of a chemical warfare attack, various scenes as people go about their daily work. Date: 1932

Citizens on London near Westminster Bridge, 1818
Citizens of London, with Westminster Bridge and Nelsons Column in the background. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal

Fashionable women riding bicycles in a park, 1896
Bicycling, the Ladies of the wheel, 1896. Fashionable ladies on bicycles in a Paris park. They wear blouses with wide sleeves over long skirts. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

First page of the famous Vienna Codex of the Golden Bull, 1365, an illuminated manuscript prepared for King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Miniatura nel Codice Viennese

Aquilifer and examples of Roman eagles or aquila
Roman legionary or aquilifer (eagle-bearer) and examples of eagles or aquila. Insegne. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Corsi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Plaque to 3rd Parachute Squadron RE, Troarn, Normandy
This is on the wall of the Tourist Office and was put up by the citizens of Troarn in honour of the officers and men of the Squadron who at dawn on the 6 June 1944

Depiction of the Trojan Horse
Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city. Two rows of bizarrely dressed people and others wearing dog masks pull the horse with ropes

Citizens producing identity papers in Berlin, Germany. 1923

WW1 - The Exodus from Antwerp, Belgium over bridge of barges
WW1 - The Exodus of the inhabitants of Antwerp, Belgium over a bridge of barges across the River Scheldt. 1914

WW1 - The Exodus from Antwerp, Belgium by boat
WW1 - The Exodus of inhabitants of Antwerp, Belgium by boat down the River Scheldt. 1914

Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917
Women worker at the bureau printing presses, bonds had to go through lots of processes before the finish result was ready to be purchased by the public. Date: 1917

GERMANS INVADE SUDETEN
German troops march into the Sudetenland, on the grounds that they are liberating the German-speaking citizens of the country Date: 1 October 1938

Old Woman Reads Letter Date: 1941

Man Makes Ship Model Date: 1948

Woman in a Wheelchair Date: 1948

Postman Gets Invitation Date: 1950

Horticulturist Burbank Date: 1950

Elderly Couple on Christmas Morn

Children Visit Bank Date: 1900

France. Liberal Revolution, 1848. National Assembly invaded
France. Liberal Revolution, 1848. Popular uprising to force the abdication of King Louis Philippe of Orleans and proclaim the Second Republic (Days 22 to 24 February)

WINDMILL AMSTERDAM 1672
Many windmills serve the citizens of Amsterdam. Date: 1872

RACIAL / FRENCH 1793-4
A group of French citizens during the Revolution, wearing the revolutionary cap and beating a drum Date: 1793-4

Riots in Paris, 1870
Citizens fleeing from the barricade they have erected out of overturned carriages as troops pour over the top during pre-Commune riots in Paris Date: May 1870

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