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Alexis SoyerFrench-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books
FAMINE VICTIMSEncampment of famine victims at Novorossisk. Date: 1922
Selling dogs for food 1871Selling dogs for food in front of the horse market during the Paris Commune Date: 1871
Fund Committee in Coventry 1861Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861
Lee-Richards Annular Biplane at Famine Point at Heysham in 1911. Date: 1911
The Ministers dreamThe Ministers Dream. A cartoon showing Robert Peel struggling with the problems posed by the Irish famine. Date: 1845
Food riot in DungarvonDuring the famine in Ireland a food riot breaks out in Dungarvon Date: 1846
Dunmanway from the Cork Road bridgeThe road leading into the town of Dunmanway, from the bridge on the Cork Road, in Ireland. Referring to the Irish famine at this time
Sketches in the west of IrelandA page from the Illustrated London News, of Sketches in the West of Ireland by James Mahony. The illustrations are of scenes encountered by the artist in Cahera, Mienies
Stalybridge riot 1863A company of Hussars arrive from Manchester to support the local police, who have armed themselves with cutlasses, in quelling disturbances on the streets of Stalybridge
Famine St PetersburgDistress among the Russian poor : queuing at a soup kitchen in St Petersburg