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Suggragette Novel Outlawed Charlotte Despard. Outlawed A Novel on the Woman Suffrage Question, by Mrs. Despard (1844-1939) and Mabel Collins (Mrs. Keningale Cook)

Tablet of Shamash. beg. 9th c. BC. The sun-god Shamash (right) receiving the Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina (left), between two interceding deities

Conquest of the Earth, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE CONQUEST OF THE EARTH - An invader from Andromeda describes his home Date: 1930

Atropos
A portrait illustration of a reclined woman, titled Atropos, who was one of the three fates in Greek mythology, her name describes her as unalterable, or inflexible. Date: circa 1922

Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase, HMS Medina
Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase - The Royal Yacht, HMS Medina, 1911-1912 Coronation Expedition to India for the Durbar. Designed and made for Her Majesty by Waring and Gillow

QSS Lusitania - souvenir of launch, commemorative 18 carat gold handled scissors, with stainless steel blades, the crossover engraved with John Brown and Co

WOMAN WORKING TAPESTRY
A German woman working on a tapestry - a card created in honour of Woman by an artist who describes himself as a Ehrer die Frauen which seems to mean Respecter of Women Date: early 20th century

Edmund Blunden Information Board, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The board is outside the Chateau. Blunden was in the 11th Royal Sussex, camped just outside Vlamertinghe in the preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres

Vlamertinghe Chateau, subject of Edmund Blunden poem
Blunden wrote the poem, On Passing Vlamertinghe Chateau in July 1917 in which he describes Poppies by the million. The Chateau survived the war

Excelsior
From the poem Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which describes a young mans journey through a mountain village carrying a banner inscribed Excelsior ( Onward and Upward)

Evangeline is an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published in 1847 which describes the separation of Evangeline and her beloved Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadian community from Nova

Dinner in the Iguanodon model, Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Diners seated in a model of an Iguanodon at Crystal Palace, London. The Iguanodon was a creation of Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins who was constructing models of various dinosaurs in his studio at Crystal

MR BUZFUZ / DICKENS
Serjeant Buzfuz. Dickens describes him as a driving, chaffing, masculine bar orator, who twists Chops and Tomato Sauce into a declaration of love

Mu Revealed by Tony Earll (nom de plume of Raymond Buckland) which describes a successful archeological expedition to find the manuscript of a priest of Mu

Bethnal Green / Slum / 1863
Bethnal Green, London : interior of a garret at No 10, Hollybush- Place; a workman describes conditions to a visiting inspector

Johannes Freinsheim
JOHANNES FREINSHEIM German classical scholar, historian and critic from Heidelberg, though a pencil annotation describes him as a bookseller in Stockholm. Date: 1608 - 1660

Fiction Like Roswell
In THE VAPOR INTELLIGENCE Jack Barnette describes a mysterious object which flashes into the sky just as 20 years later a similar object will be seen at Roswell Date: 1930

Sir Isaac Penington - 2
SIR ISaC PENINGTON London fishmonger and Lord mayor : this picture describes him as the FACTIOUS Lord Mayor of London ! Date: 1587 - 1660

Lodging House Keeper makes a slight descriptive error
Lodging-House Keeper (to professional lady) - " Which my usband, Miss, is one of the Virgins at the Cathedral!" Date: circa 1890s

Chicago Stock Yards
Union stock yards, Chicago, handle 14+ million cattle, hogs, sheep and horses in 1914. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle describes the dreadful conditions. Date: 1916

Chinese Actors
Chinese actors during a performance. The caption describes the principal performer as an actress - is she in drag ? circa 1911

Louis XIV at Les Dunes
Louis XIV travels by coach to visit the battlefield of the Dunes, where his general Turenne describes how he has just defeated the Spaniards Date: 14 June 1658

Betty Hill Explains
At the site where on 19 September 1961 an alien spaceship landed and she and her husband Barney were taken on board, Betty Hill describes the incident to investigators

Richard Fox
RICHARD FOX English bishop and statesman, The picture describes him as a founder of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, but it was 100 years old in his lifetime

Whitehall / Banqueting Hse
The Verger - or perhaps the vicar - describes the building to two visitors

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