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When the War is Over, Maggie (1) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front writes a letter home to his love. (1 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

When the War is Over, Maggie (2) WW1
When the War is Over, Maggie -- a British soldier on the Western Front writes a letter home to his love, with a promise of marriage when he returns. (2 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

Christmas card, 56th London Division Territorial Force, with key Western Front place names as part of the design: Gommecourt, Somme, Arras, Ypres. Date: 1917

Two sisters at Southwold, Suffolk
Two sisters (Lucy and Violet Auerbach) posing for a photo on the sea front at Southwold, Suffolk, summer 1911. Date: 1911

Little girl in pram, Ealing, West London
Little girl (Violet Auerbach) in her pram in the front garden of her home at 1 Carlton Road, Ealing, West London. Date: circa 1904

Front garden in the snow, Ealing, West London
Front garden in the snow, 1 Carlton Road, Ealing, West London. Date: circa 1905

Soldier in a trench, Western Front, WW1
Soldier in a trench on the Western Front during the First World War. He is Albert Auerbach of the Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 1 September 1918. 1918

Milkmaid and cow, Madresfield, Worcestershire, WW1
Milkmaid (D Pentreath) and Midget the Jersey cow, in the village of Madresfield, near Malvern, Worcestershire, during the First World War. Date: 1915

British soldiers in German dugouts, WW1
British soldiers in abandoned German dugouts, WW1. 1914-1918

British soldiers in captured German trench, WW1
British soldiers in captured German trench at Ovillers la Boiselle, Somme, France, WW1. 1914-1918

British soldiers sleeping in shell holes, WW1. 1914-1918

Helping an ambulance through the mud, WW1. 1914-1918

Star shell bursting near British lines, WW1. 1914-1918

Firing a heavy howitzer in France, WW1. 1914-1918

Wiltshires cheering during great advance, WW1. 1914-1918

British mine exploding at Beaumont Hamel, France, WW1. 1914-1918

British machine gunners in gas helmets, WW1
British machine gunners wearing gas helmets, WW1. 1914-1918

Crawling to the German trenches under fire, WW1. 1914-1918

Black Watch pipers playing to captors of Longueval, WW1
Black Watch pipers playing to the captors of Longueval, Somme, France, WW1. 1914-1918

British infantry practising an attack, WW1. 1914-1918

A gallant rescue under fire, saving a pals life, WW1. 1914-1918

After the first cavalry charge, WW1
After the first cavalry charge, July 1916. 1916

A British heavy gun in action, WW1. 1914-1918

A British sentry in Flanders, WW1. 1914-1918

Soldiers smoking and relaxing, WW1. 1914-1918

North Front - Black and white view over gun emplacement towards harbour- various boats, ships, fill in left background Date: circa 1890s

Windmill Hill and O Haras Tower - Black and white view from beach, buildings in front of rock Date: circa 1890s

Coutances Cathedral - black & white view of Cathedral front, shops near by Date: circa 1890s

Rouen Natre Dame - black & white view of Funeral procession in front of Church Date: circa 1890s

Water tanks 1916
Travelling butts of water for the thirsty soldiers at the Front in World War One. Date: 1916

The God in the Machine 1916
A detachment of happy, souvenir laden Canadians coming out of action. Date: 1916

Engagement of Harold Macmillan
Front cover of The Tatler reporting on the engagement of Lady Dorothy Cavendish and Captain Harold Macmillan (later British Prime Minister)

The Tatler front cover - Debutante Number 1958
Front cover of The Tatler Debutante number for 1958, the year in which debutantes were presented at the last royal courts before the ritual was stopped by Buckingham Palace

WW1 - Sikh Indian soldiers in France departing for the front
WW1 - Sikh Indian soldiers in France departing by train for the front Date: 1914

The Home (between 1842-46) of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Home of Victorian Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (between 1842-46 - the year of her marriage) at 50 Wimpole Street, London. Date: circa 1910s

The Home of Robert Browning, 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington
The Home of Victorian Poet Robert Browning, 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington Date: circa 1910s

Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - Mexican Cavalry - Paris
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show - The Mexican Cavalry - passing The Galerie des machines (officially Palais des machines ) was a pavilion built for the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris

A Belgian refugee adopted by a British woman
Choosing a new foster-sister: Mlle. Belgica becomes Miss Britannia. Impression of an actual event representing the visit of a young English woman to a Belgian refugee home in Ealing in 1914 to adopt

The Marchioness of Blandford
Alexandra Mary Cadogan (1900 - 1961), Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the 10th duke of Marlborough. Youngest daughter of Viscount Chelsea. 1925

War Budget cover - 1916
Front cover of The War Budget showing a British soldier, bayonet fixed, looking determinedly into the future as a New Year - 1916 - dawns. Date: 1915

The Graphic Christmas Number 1914, front cover
Front cover of The Graphic, 1914, its first Christmas number of the Great War, featuring two aeroplanes, the top one a German Taube, flying against a dark, ominous sky

The War Budget - Tommies in gas masks
Front cover of The War Budget. Two British soldiers amuse a young woman when returning home on leave by sporting a gas mask. Date: 1916

The War Budget - British Tommy reads letter from home
Front cover of The War Budget featuring illustration of a British soldier, dressed for winter with a fur or goatskin gherkin, seated contemplating a photograph of his wife or sweetheart. Date: 1916

Boots - Comforts for Campaginers advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists and their various suggestions for comforts - gifts to send to men fighting at the front during the First World War

Sketch cover - the Lygon sisters
Front cover of The Sketch featuring a photograph of Lady Lettice Lygon flanked by her sisters, Sibell (left) and Mary (right)

Bystander cover - Lady Mary Pakenham
Lady Mary Katherine Clive (nÚÑáPakenham 23 August 1907 19 March 2010), British writer and historian, known for her memoirs of her family and her time as a debutante

Bystander front cover featuring Miss Mary Ashley
Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of multi-millionaire, Lt-Col Wilfred Ashley (1st Baron Mount Temple) and sister of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten

The Tatler Summer Number front cover, 1929
Front cover of The Tatler Summer Number for 1929 featuring a delightful illustration of a lady in an elaborate swimsuit and marine-themed headdress exploring a rock pool. Date: 1929

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