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Front cover of Graphic - Christmas 1870Front cover of The Graphic, supplement for Christmas 1870, showing five winged cherub angels looking in the centre of the page, at a star to signifie the birth of Jesus. 1870
London transport recruiting female bus conductors to replace men called up for national service. 1940
Sir Donald Currie (1825 - 1909), Scottish shipowner, politician and philanthropist, founded the Castle line in 1862, running clippers to India
Betrothal of Duke of York later King George VI and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (The Queen Mother) at Glamis Castle
The Shell Grotto - an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England - The Dome. Date: circa 1910s
Easter Bunny Cake Date: 1935
Eileen Bennett Whittingstal (1907- 1979), female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931. Date: 1928
Prince of Waless Tour of India 1875Front cover supplement in The Illustrated London News, October 1875. Eldest son of Queen Victoria, Prince of Waless (later Edward VII), embarked on an extensive tour of the Indian subcontinent
Crowds outside Buckingham Palace, London 1902Date: June 1902
Leviathan later named SS Great Eastern under constructionFront cover for The Illustrated Times, dated 7 November 1857. Christened Leviathan in the early stages, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
ELEGANT SHOOTING LADYA bird of prey sets out knowing that she is immaculately dressed for the part. Date: 1931
Costume La Mode 1846Pink dress: four scallop edged flounces, tight fitting sleeves with volans & worn with a net pelerine. Hair: covers the ears. Green dress: worn with a shawl & bonnet. Date: 1846
KING WENCESLASGood King Wenceslas
Fox hunting, the kill 1820The Leicestershire covers, huntsmen arriving back from the hunt with thier prize. Date: 1820
Fox hunting, full cry 1820The Leicestershire covers, huntsmen and hounds on the chase. Date: 1820
Fox hunting, the meet 1820The Leicestershire covers, before the chase the huntsmen and hounds ready to go. Date: 1820
1920s women sitting on the bonnet of a carYoung lady sitting on the bonnet of a car. Date: 1927
EQUALITY / COLLEGE GIRLAmerican college woman or the Vassar girl of 1922 Date: 1922
Cover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927
Imaginary inhabitant of the planet MarsAn imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars. Martians enjoy less gravity, but must withstand a thinner atmosphere with extreme temperatures. Civilisation could be highly developed. Date: 1939
Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940
Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940
Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Mercury must withstand colossal heat, and for this reason are likely to exist in the form of insects. Date: 1939
British factory exterior, Ironmonger Magazine coverBritish factory exterior, as depicted on the cover of The Ironmonger magazine. Date: 1911
Comic Postcard - Hat theme - Gertie at NottinghamComic Postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period - Gertie at Nottingham. Date: circa 1907
Past and Presnt Fashions - The differencePast and Present Fashions: Past Fashion - Covered everything and touched nothing; Present Fashion - Touches everything and covers nothing ! Date: circa 1910
Catalogue illustration, embroidered covers and tobacco set. 1. Yellow silk embroidered cover donated by the Sultan. 2. Blue sofa cover embroidered in gold and silk thread, donated by the Sultan. 3
Card of the International Anti-Vivisection League - Cat FurBelgian card produced for the International Anti-Vivisection League - An outcry on the use of Cat Fur for fashionable overcoat linings and the covering of motor parts
Sketch cover - the Marchesa MalacridaMarchesa Nadja Malacrida portrayed by Olive Snell on the front cover of The Sketch magazine. She was born Louisa Nadia Green, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Green and niece of Lord Cowdray
Clemenceau as a tiger, mauling Germany, an eagleCartoon on the cover of La Baionnette depicting the French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, as a tiger and Germany, an eagle, as his prey
Tatler cover - West End Arcadians - 1959Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing a coat of glove cape trimmed with white fox and a hat also of white fox from Bazaar on the Kings Road (Mary Quant)
Sphere front cover - Treasure Island at the Strand TheatreFront cover of The Sphere featuring illustration by Fortunino Matania of a scene from the play, Treasure Island, performed at the Strand Theatre in 1922 with Arthur Bourchier in the role of Long John
The Graphic Christmas Number 1921 front coverStriking front cover design for The Graphic Christmas number 1921 featuring a little girl in a red dress decorating an enormous Christmas tree and holding a Harlequin doll in the air. Date: 1921
Tatler cover - Lady Milbanke (Sheila Chisholm) by YevondeMargaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)
London life front cover - The Playgirl ClubFront cover of London Life magazine with portraits of six women who featured in that issues article about the capitals playgirls - a term used by the magazine to describe women who are very strictly
London Life cover featuring Sophia Loren, 1965Sophia Loren (born 1934) Italian actress, pictured on the front cover of London Life magazine in November 1965 with her husband, Carlo Ponti
Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover - Machine Man of ArdathiaCover design, Amazing Stories. Machine Man of Ardathia (Francis Flagg) -- 35, 000 years hence, man lives in a container fitted with controls for everything, including powerful rays. Date: 1927
Daily Mail War Map, WW1Front cover of a fold out war map issued by the Daily Mail in the early weeks of the First World War. On the cover, and inside
Lady Loughborough (Sheila Chisholm), WW1Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm, daughter of Harry Chisholm of Sydney, NSW, Australia married in 1915 Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough
Tatler cover - Gerald du MaurierSir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (1873-1934), English actor and manager. Father to writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier, son of the Punch artist George du Maurier
Tatler front cover - Mrs Percy Wyndham widowed, WW1The Hon. Mrs Percy Wyndham, formerly Diana Lister, daughter of Lord Ribblesdale. She married Percy Wyndham in 1913, the only son of the late George Wyndham and Countess Grosvenor
Pamela Digby (later Churchill, then Harriman)Pamela Harriman Churchill (1920 - 1997), photographed here to announce her engagement to Randolph Churchill, child of Winston Churchill, socialite, political activist and diplomat. Date: 1939
St. Ambrews Well, Crantock, near Newquay, Cornwall, England. This iron door with a carving of a mans face on it, covers the 10th century well, dedicated to St. Ambrew. Date: 10th century
London Life front cover - Geraldine Chaplin at TonyaFront cover of London Life magazine, 4th/10th December 1965 featuring the actress Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O Neill
First cover of London Life magazineVery first cover of London Life magazine, published on 9th October 1965 with an eye-catching oversized date line and a photograph of sixties supermodel Celia Hammond photographed by Terence Donovan
Futuristic Human Cloning, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine CoverTHE 4-SIDED TRIANGLE, by William F Temple. A scientist clones the body of a young woman in his laboratory in this futuristic science fiction magazine cover
The Raid from Mars, Amazing Stories SciFi Magazine CoverThe Raid from Mars - Martians raid Earth in search of radium