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Are you nervous? If so, find the nerve! Photograph of Dr. Rufus Weaver showing the nervous system of a man. Date: 1906

Woman police officer Kathleen Saville, London, WW2
Woman police officer Kathleen Saville (joined January 1940), on duty in London during the Second World War, seen here at a railway station helping a group of child evacuees find their train

Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits find a cabbage
A Great Discovery -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits escape from their hutch and find an enticing-looking cabbage. Date: 1912

Find the Fault card No. 13 -- children with swing. circa 1930s

YOUNG GIANTESS PLAYS
Travellers in the German countryside suddenly find that they have become the playthings of a young giantess

Pithos (plural - pithoi) - a large ancient Greek storage container. Some very fine examples excavated from within the Minoan palace at Knossos on Crete. Date: circa 1920s

Diagram of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Photograph of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Find the Fault card No. 20 -- woman knitting a sock. circa 1930s

Charing Cross Dressing Station bunkers, Ploegsteert
These are close by the Plugstreet Experience 14-18 (Interpretation Centre) and served the Dressing Station which, like many of the sites around here, used a series of Central London names

ABDUCTED BY GIANTESS
A parallel to extraterrestrial abduction : travellers in the German countryside suddenly find that they have become the playthings of a young giantess

Thorp T-11 Sky Scooter NX91312. Designed in the US by John Thorp in 1945, the T-11 was intended to be home-built. NX91312 was one of eight prototypes built by Thorp in 1946

Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, discovered in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area in a lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) on June 17, 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner. H

Find the Fault card No. 17 -- woman and mirror. circa 1930s

Pointer
The Pointer is a medium-sized breed of pointing dog developed in England. It is used to find game for hunters. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

WW2 British First Aid Post
An illustration which shows a British WW2 nurse speaking with a boy at a first aid post, centres in which air-raid casualties will find treatment and comfort. Date: circa 1941

RMS Titanic - archive of Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer
RMS Titanic, archive of Joseph Bell (1861-1912), Chief Engineer on the Titanic, and victim of the disaster. Collection of letters and ephemera relating to Mr Bell's son Frank

Illustration, White-Ear discovers a dead fox in the coach house. Date: 1912

THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK
The famous Shrine of the Book, a wing of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. It houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most exceptional archaeological find in the Holy Land. Date: completed 1965

Cartoon, Welcome! Britannia: Come in, ladies and gentlemen! Glad to give you a decent roof over your heads at last!'. A comment on the opening of the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday 4 April

AUTOPSY, C17
When Thomas Miles dies mysteriously, surgeons of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, open him up and find a gob of meat choked him ; it is seen as judgment on a sinner Date: 8 August 1635

MOSLEMS AND HOURIS
Moslems are taught that if they die for the faith, they will find beautiful nymphs - HOURIS - awaiting them in the next world : so they go happily to their deaths

HASHISH & ASSASSINS
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN drugs his corps of assassins with hashish, which inspires them with dreams of the houris they will find when they die and go to Heaven... Date: 13th century

HOURIS
Moslems are taught that if they die for the faith, they will find beautiful nymphs - HOURIS - awaiting them in the next world : so they go happily to their deaths

BULGARIAN ATROCITIES
SERBIA Serbians, re-entering towns and villages abandoned by the retreating Bulgarians, find evidence of destruction, massacre & other atrocities Date: July 1913

The Drowning of Salsedo
The inhabitants of Puerto Rico test the belief that the Spaniards are immortal by drowning Salsedo: they find that Spaniards, too, can die. Date: 1594

An artistic representation - Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb
An artistic representation of the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun by (on right) Archeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) and his backer (on left) George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923)

Moving House, Spalding, Lincolnshire
House moving on the Lincolnshire Fens around 1910. Farmworkers regularly moved between tied cottages to find work. Often the local farm cart was the only way of moving their belongings Date

Comic postcard, Man and woman in office Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Hotel guest and landlady - Seek and ye shall find Date: 20th century

The Wishing Cap, by Minnie Asprey
If I the wishing cap could find, I should want the funniest things! by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Columbus at Venice
Columbus in Venice 1488, supplicating to the Doge and his ministers, to fund his expeditions to find a new trading route to Asia. He was unsuccessful and was turned down. Date: 1488

The greatest trek in history, Partition 1947
The greatest trek in history - to find freedom from fear: some of the 4, 000, 000 refugees in the Punjab. Double page from the Illustrated London News

What the great find in Egypt may bring: a 3000-year old pharaoh " coming forth into the day" with the contemporary garlands which adorned his mummy

Found Bronzes - Archaeology
Bronzes - Archaeology - found in Galloway (1 and 2), Fairholm, Lockerbie (3), and Barnhill, Dumfries (4). 1863

King Alfred in disguise as a wandering harpist
King Alfred the Great (849899)in disguise as a wandering harpist infiltrating the camp of Guthrum, King of the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw, to try and find out their plans. 878

All Germans love children, so even these tough soldiers, invading Belgium, find time to fraternise with the kiddies... and fortunately there is a photographer to record it... Date: 1914

Couple on a Train Date: 1948

New Bicycle on Christmas Morn Date: 1947

One more unfortunate 1870
Policeman beaming a torch over the body of a woman found at the side of a canel in the streets of London. Date: 1870

Cartoon, narrow theatre seats
Cartoon -- a rather large lady and gentleman are dismayed to find that the theatre seating appears on the narrow side. Date: circa 1855

TENTACULAR CATCH / FRANCE
Crew of French fishing boat of Cancale find their nets full of hundreds of octopodes which swarm onto the side of their boat, nearly sinking it Date: 1906

STREET ARAB RECLAIMED
A street arab as he was when he was picked off the streets, and as you will find him today, metamorphosed into a gardener. Date: 1875

1805 ICE SKATING
The occasional fall notwithstanding, gentlemen generally find ice skating to be whizzer fun. Date: 1805

Navvy
London characters : if the streets of London were paved with gold, the navigator (NAVVY) would find it, for he spends his life digging them up and filling them in again. Date: circa 1870

EDWARD VIII / POINCARE 14
EDWARD VIII as Prince of Wales welcomes President Poincare of France at Portsmouth, a year before the two countries find themselves allies in the war against Germany Date: 1913

MAORIS FIND REMAINS
The trade in human heads - Maoris find the heads of their relatives among the dealers wares on board his ship. Date: 1830

BUCKINHAM / SEVERN / DOYLE
Duke of Buckingham on his way to fight Richard, find the Severn impassable Date: October 1483

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