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The Tax Upon Property 1843
Property owner taxed by the financial commitments forced upon him by his position in society... Date: 1843

Second Royal Exchange
Designed by Edward Jarman and opened in 1669, it burned down in January 1838. It had been used by the Lloyds insurance market

Duchess of Gloucesters penance
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester (1400-1452). Having consulted astrologers to divine the future, they predicted that Henry VI would suffer a life-threatening illness

Royal Air Force Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110C-5 AX772 (Luftwaffe 5F-CM of $(F)/14) (W.Nr. 2177) Buit by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG 5F-CM was based at Cherbourg

Auster J-5G Cirrus Autocar - G-ARUT
Auster J-5G Cirrus Autocar G-ARUT (msn 2974), written off in a forced landing at Barnet Hertfordshire on 13 August 1965. Date: circa 1964

NYC Stock Exchange forced to closed due to gas bomb fumes
The trading floor New York Stock Exchange is forced to close due to tear gas bomb fumes - noon on 4th August 1933. The bombs had apparently been tossed into the ventilating apparatus

Russian deserters forced back, WW1
Two demoralised Russian soldiers, on the point of deserting, are forced back by a loyal soldier on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: 1917

The Water-wave! by G. E. Studdy
Illustration by G. E. Studdy showing a small dog being forced to have a bath, watched smugly by Ooloo the cat. Ooloo later gets a shock when the bath water spills all over him

President Woodrow Wilson's head against the Stars & Stripes
Wilson strove to keep America neutral but the German U-boat campaign, and the sinking of the Lusitania, forced his hand. WW1 Date: circa 1917

SPAD VII French fighter plane captured by Germans
SPAD VII French fighter plane belonging to Escadrille SPA 31 which was forced down behind enemy lines and carries the legend: Acquired by Jasta 38, 6 April 1917 (in German). Date: circa 1917

Corsair flying boat damage
A large hole in the hull of the Imperial Airways flying boat Corsair, the result of a forced landing on the River Dangu, Belgian Congo (Zaire) in March 1939

River Dangu dam construction
In the Belgian Congo (Zaire), local workers collect stone quarried nearby for the purpose of constructing a temporary dam on the River Dangu

George II and Elizaveta of Greece
King George II of the Hellenes (1890-1947) and his wife, Elisabetha (1894-1956) in the early 1920s. George was the eldest son of King Constantine I and Queen Sophie

Prince Mircea of Romania (1913-1916), youngest child of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania, pictured in 1915. Mircea died of typhoid in 1916

Bhutan / Ashley Eden / 1864
BHUTAN Ashley Eden forced by the people of Bhutan to sign a treaty

Threshing 1930S
Harvest time, Essex. The ripe barley is being fed into the thresher, the straw forced out is then compressed into bales, wired up and then carried up to the stack to be stored

Gideon V Midianites
Gideon, with encouragement from God, leads his fellow- Israelites against the Midianites, who are forced to retreat from the Promised Land

Scene from Molieres play, Le Mariage Force, first performed in 1664. 17th century

Plenary Court. Engraving, 1848
Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727-1794). French churchman and politician of Louis XVI. Forced to dissolve the Plenary Court. Engraving, 1848

Ox treadmill, uper Italy, ca. 1600. Were used to drive corn mills. Two oxen can work on the slanting plate. The animals are roped

The Second soviet Occupation (1944-1991). Large areas of Latvia become military bases and firing ranges. Occupation Museum. Riga. Latvia. Europe

Sir Nathaniel Barnadiston
SIR NATHANIEL BARNARDISTON (1588 - 1653) Fervent puritan, who consist- -ently opposed Charles I, even so far as going to prison for refusing to pay a forced loan. Much respected, very popular

Shot-Down Gotha
A German Gotha bomber, forced down on the outskirts of Paris, is exhibited in the courtyard of the Musee de l Armee, Paris Date: circa 1915

French Canal Operations
French engineers making a cutting at Matachin : but this year they will be forced to abandon the project, leaving it for the Americans to complete. 1889

Pea Tenderometer
Testing the tenderness of peas for canning with a machine called a Tenderometer. A metal blade is forced through a central container and the scale records the measurement. Date: 1950s

Cartoon, War and Peace, WW1
Cartoon: You forced your war on us, we shall force our peace on you! An allegorical female figure with a sword (France) confronts the German invaders

John Frost (Medical)
JOHN FROST Medical pioneer whose arrogance and self-promotion offended all : shady financial dealings forced him to leave England for Germany Date: 1803 - 1840

Protestants Drowned
Protestants are forced into the sea at Terawley by Catholics with spears and are drowned. Date: 1601

Cyprus / 1487 / De Cornaro
Caterina of Cornaro, widow of James II of Cyprus. In March 1489 she is forced to sell Cyprus to Venice. Date: circa 1487

John Hampden
JOHN HAMPDEN politician whose defiance of Charles I regarding a forced loan he was unwilling to pay led to the English Civil War Date: 1594 - 1643

John Hampden Statue
JOHN HAMPDEN politician whose defiance of Charles I regarding a forced loan he was unwilling to pay led to the English Civil War Date: 1594 - 1643

Forced Marriage
THE FORCED MARRIAGE a young girl is distressed at having to marry a monster Date: circa 1770

Napoleon Quits Waterloo
Having watched his Garde Imperiale forced to retreat by the Allies, Napoleon realises that he faces defeat and quits the field, passing La Belle Alliance in his flight... Date: 18 June 1815

Edwardian boy identified by the photographer as Jack Cooke, visiting the Battersby family, hatmakers of Stockport. Well-dressed though he is

WWI Poster, Military Service Act 1916
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Military Service Act 1916, Every Unmarried Man of Military Age can choose one of two courses. Date: 1916

Suffragette Force Feeding Maiden Speech. Gentleman, at dinner, glass in hand proposes a toast. Gentlemen I wish you to drink the health of the women eh - the females eh - the ladies

WWI propeller with inscribed silver plaque
WW1 propeller with inscribed silver plaque, dated 8th June 1916. In memory of a forced landing in a cornfield at Avesnes. Observer - 2nd Ltn. J. Heyward and Pilot - 2nd Ltn. F. Gartside-Tippinge

Mary, Queen of Scots, forced to abdicate
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son James, while imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle. Date: 24 July 1567

Liner Narrung in a gale by G. H. Davis
The Christmas gale: beaten back by the sea. How the P&O liner Narrung was forced back by huge waves off Ushant, Brittany. Showing the vessels position before she met the huge waves

Hosea, Prophet
HOSEA, PROPHET cheerless prophet who was forced to marry a harlot, which made him even gloomier than he was already. Date: 8th century BCE

Lucas Trelcatius Younger
LUCAS TRELCATIUS (younger) French-German protestant theologian, born in London where his father (same name) had been forced to take refuge. Date: 1573 - 1607

Lucas Trelcatius Elder
LUCAS TRELCATIUS (the elder) French-born protestant churchman who was forced to seek refuge in London. Date: 1542 - 1602

Charles Duc De Guise - 2
CHARLES de Lorraine, quatrieme duc de GUISE, French Catholic leader and governor of Provence, forced by Richelieu to leave France for Italy where he died. Date: 1571 - 1640

Charles Duc De Guise - 1
CHARLES de Lorraine, quatrieme duc de GUISE, French Catholic leader and governor of Provence, forced by Richelieu to leave France for Italy where he died. Date: 1571 - 1640

Sir William Vernon Harcourt - His political journey
The Story of the Protestant Who Wouldn t. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) - Chancellor of the Exchequer (1892-1895)

Mahmut Sevket Pasa and chief staff
Mahmut Sevket Pasa (18561913) and chief staff - Ottoman soldier and statesman who, in 1909, suppressed a religious uprising, forced the subsequent deposition of Sultan Abdulhamid II

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, after a forced landing due to loss of pressure, June 1913

A helicopter attempts to hoist the flooded Liberty Bell 7 out of the sea before being forced to abandon the craft. 21 July 1961. Date: 1961

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