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Home Gardening magazine, September 1928Home Gardening magazine featuring a suggestion for the layout of a front garden the design of which was apparently specially prepared by one of the greatest authorities in the country
Home Gardening magazine, August 1932Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a herbaceous border in a garden with an impressive display of gladioli (gladiolus) flowers. Date: 1932
Home Gardening magazine, September 1932Front cover of Home Gardening magazine advising readers to start planting their bulb bowls now in order to ensure a vibrant display of hyacinths indoors over winter. Date: 1932
Home Gardening magazine, December 1931Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a quaint country cottage and its surrounding garden covered in snow, together with a calendar for the year 1932. Date: 1931
Book cover, Learning to Spell, by Irene Martyn. Showing a girl at a desk in front of a blackboard. Date: circa 1940s
Out of Doors -- cover design, showing three children with a kite. Date: 19th century
Pug Peter -- cover design, showing the eponymous hero in a crown and red cloak. Date: 1905
Man listening to a radioMan sitting in an armchair, listening to a large radio. Date: circa 1930s
Motor machine guns taking cover, Western Front, WW1Motor machine guns taking cover in a sunken road on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Bystander cover, a royal tennis playerFront cover of The Bystander magazine featuring Prince Albert, Duke of York -the future King George VI - as a tennis player
Cobbetts Advice to Young MenFront cover of Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett, an instruction booklet for the eighteenth century youth. Date: 1887
Crowd scanning bulletin about King Edward VIIs healthA crowd outside the offices of the Daily Graphic, waiting anxiously for the regular bulletins about the state of the Kings health following a sudden illness - appendicitis - just two days before his
Bomb launching installations in France by G. H. DavisHomes of the flying bombs: the layout of launching installations in northern France during the Second World War. They are sometimes camouflaged among woods, or disguised as small villages. Date: 1944
New type of escort vessel by G. H. DavisA Woolworth Carrier: first details of the new type of escort vessel giving vital air cover to British convoys in mid-Atlantic during the Second World War. Date: 1943
The Sphere Coronation Record NumberFront cover of The Sphere Coronation Record Number, 15th May 1937, a special issue for the coronation of King George VI which took place on 12th May 1937
RAF photographic reconnaissance work by G. H. DavisSpying out the enemys secrets from the air: photographic reconnaissance work in the RAF. How the RAF has obtained its great collection of photographs of vital areas in Germany
Defeat of the Graf Spee by G. H. DavisThe fight with the Admiral Graf Spee: factors in a classic example of naval battle tactics pictorially explained. Elements that played a part in the defeat of the ship by three British cruisers
The Sketch Coronation Number, 1937Front cover of The Sketch, special Coronation issue for the Coronation of King George VI, featuring a rather glamorous and statuesque Britannia
The Sketch front cover by ErteFront cover of The Sketch Summer Number designed by Erte, with a white head in profile transforming into a galaxy of stars. Date: 1937
H. R. H. The Princess of Piedmont (Marie Jose of Belgium)MARIA JOSE OF BELGIUM (1906-2001) Wife of Umberto of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, and daughter of Albert of Belgium. Date: 1937
Bystander Summer Number front cover, 1919Front cover of The Bystander magazines summer number for July 1919, featuring a back view of a couple in their bathing costumes, embracing as they gaze out to sea. Date: 1919
Cover design, Animal Frolics, words by May Byron, illustrations by Cecil Aldin. Showing a pig and two rabbits in humanised form and costume, walking along hand-in-hand. Date: 1914
Battling Bonzo wins in the first round by George StuddyBattling Bonzo wins in the first round. He tackles a black dog bigger than himself, and takes the credit when the enemy accidentally falls down a manhole
Cover design for Womans Life by Muriel Dawson, showing a toddler with toys. Date: 1928
Toddler playing with red toy train, by Muriel DawsonA toddler plays with a beautiful large red toy train, on a cover design by Muriel Dawson for Home Notes magazine. Date: 1924
Lady Behave - cover and spine by David WrightFabulous book cover design by pin up artist David Wright for a book entitled, Lady Behave" by Peter Cheney. The artwork depicts a haughty looking woman with auburn hair
Attractive blonde woman 1944Front cover of the Britainnia and Eve 1944, showing a woman wearing a jade green toga style dress with blonde hair arranged high, tied back at the nape of the neck. Date: 1944
Sketch cover featuring Barbara Hutton, 1939Cover of The Sketch magazine featuring Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton (1912-76). Hutton, the Woolworths heiress, dubbed
Sketch front cover, Spring Fashion Number 1939Front cover of The Sketch, Spring Fashions Number, 8 March 1939, featuring a painting by French artist Jean Gabriel Domergue showing a woman wearing a colourful veiled hat worn at a jaunty angle
The Gasper front cover, World War IFront cover of The Gasper, a trench newspaper during the Great War for the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Royal Fusiliers, with a humorous cartoon on the cover showing a Scottish soldier peering through
Toasting the tank, Christmas 1916Secondary front cover of The War Illustrated magazine featuring an illustration of British soldiers toasting a tank, comparatively a new-comer into the arean of battle
British Tommy on leave returns home to his familyFrom a Somme dugout to the Home Fireside A British Tommy on leave returns home to his family - just in time for Christmas Dinner. Date: 1916
Joe Coyne & Ellis Ashmead-BarlettFront cover of The Tatler featuring Joseph (Joe) Coyne (1867-1941), American actor and singer, entertaining crowds at the Empire Theatre during World War
Winter Wear in War Time 1915Cover of a special supplement in The Tatler advising on winter fashions during World War One, and featuring a lady in an exotic boudoir, considering the various styles offered to her. Date: 1915
Tatler front cover, Christmas number 1915A gloriously patriotic front cover design by Annie Fish, featuring Fishs creation, Eve, dressed in a flamboyant military uniform and waving a Union Jack flag. 1915
Home Gardening magazine, January 1932Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring pictorial instructions for taking chrysanthemum cuttings. Date: 1932
Home Gardening magazine, September 1929Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a young girl picking asters Iwhich, apparently, don t mind the dry summer) in a large garden. Date: 1929
Home Gardening magazine, October 1928Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a lady on plant up of bowl with bulbs. Advice on how to achieve good blooms and strong foliage is contained inside. Date: 1928
Interesting Hollywood, California, USAInteresting Hollywood, California, where stars shine night and day. Cover design of a set of postcards depicting Hollywood locations. Date: 20th century
Tatler cover - Countess Nada TorbyCountess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, the daughter of the exiled Russian Grand Duke Michael of Russia. She married Prince George of Battenberg (Mountbatten)
Tatler cover featuring tennis player, A. F. WildingTatler front cover photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913
Room decorated with The TatlerAn extraordinary photograph showing a room decorated entirely with cuttings from The Tatler magazine. It was sent in by avid Tatler reader, Miss Fennell, of Christchurch, Monmouthshire. Date: 1912
Art Deco party game cardCover of a card for a party game called gooseberries, featuring a lovely art deco illustration of people in evening dress thinking deeply about the game. Date: c.1933
A Star at the Front - Gladys Cooper on Tatler front cover, 1Gladys Cooper (1888 - 1971), English stage and screen actress, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in January 1915. The magazine reports on her taking part in a concert party
Vladivostok, Russia - Allied Soldiers and Red Cross trainJanuary 1918 - Allied Soldiers shelter behind the wagons of a Russian Red Cross train, Vladivostok. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution
Book cover design, La Vanghetta del FanteBook cover design by Duilio Cambellotti, La Vanghetta del Fante by Giuseppe Zucca, showing an Italian light infantryman carrying a spade (the title also means Jack of Spades). Date: circa 1920
Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News cover - GoodwoodFront cover of the Goodwood Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring a jockey in the weighing room prior to a race. Date: 1928
Helen Wills and Eileen BennettFront cover of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring a photograph of Helen Wills (Moody), the American player who won the Wimbledon Championship eight times, with Eileen Bennett