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Body language -- a group of Italian boys. Date: circa 1970s
Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - OutRun-It-Out card game - Out. mid-20th century
Harcourt Algeranoff, English ballet dancerHarcourt Algeranoff (1903-1967), English ballet dancer, ballet master and teacher. circa 1920s
Christ Pantocrator. Miniature. Missale Dominicale cum KalendCodex 135. Missale Dominicale cum Kalendario. 14th century. Christ Pantocrator. Miniature. Chapter Archive of Tarazona. Spain
Christ Pantocrator, by Onufer Qiprioti, 16th-17th century. Of Gjirokastra. National Art Gallery. Tirana. Albania
Terracotta figure of young woman. Tomb in Canosa, Apulia. 30Terracotta figure of young woman with her hands raise in a gesture of mourning. Found in a chamber tomb in Canosa in Apulia with rich gifts, and several similar figures. 300-250 BC. Italy
Head from a male statue. 3rd century BC. EgyptHead from a male statue. Limestone. Ptolemaic Period. 3rd century BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). The Mennonite PrRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter and etcher. The Mennonite Preacher Cornelis Claez Anslo (1592-1646) and his wife Aeltje Gerritsdr Schoueten (1589-1657), 1641. Oil on canvas
Mycenaean art. Greece. Female figure with ritual gesture and necklace. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece
Japan - Kabuki Theatre Performer - the reverse of this card shows that is was postcard published by Sapporo Brewery Company, Japan - welcoming the arrival of the British fleet
Music cover, Uncle Sammy March, Two Step, by Abe Holzmann. 1904
The Socialist -- a working class political agitator in action. circa 1885
Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Bumble the Beadles Wife. late 19th century
Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Silence the Ushers Daughter. late 19th century
Charles-Antoine Coypel 1CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL French artist : a fine portrait with expressive hands... Date: 1694 - 1752
Gladstone with SailorsWILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Addressing the officers and crew of the Grantully Castle
Brougham / Wright / WivellHENRY, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM British MP and lawyer Speaking in the House of Lords during the trial of Queen Caroline Date: 1778 - 1868
Hyde Park Parade DressWinter dress for promenading in Hyde Park: crimson pelisse & toque trimmed with ermine worn with a white muslin dress, crimson slippers & tan gloves. Date: 1808
Posada, Illustration, The Adventures of Don ChepitoIllustration, The Adventures of Don Chepito -- Don Chepito addressing people in the street from a cart. Date: circa 1890s
Baby playing with pebbles, looking rather thoughtful. Date: circa 1960s
Boy in brown velvet suit on a New Year cardBoy in a brown velvet suit on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
French Theatre -- Les Sobres SotzLes Sobres Sotz (The Sober Fools), a farce, showing a fool, Le Badin, in yellow and green motley. Date: 16th century
French Theatre -- Le ChevalierLe Chevalier qui donna sa Femme au Dyable (The Knight who gave his Wife to the Devil) -- a mystery play. Showing the Knight in armour and a cloak, with his arm raised in a declamatory gesture
Boy in policemans uniform in a garden, pretending to direct traffic. Date: circa 1920s
WW1 - Cartoon - Britain joins her alliesWW1 - Two soldiers meeting during battle and are shown shaking hands. The illustration and gesture symbolises Great Britain joining her allies on the field. Date: 1914
Two boys playing on a Balham street, SW London, both sticking out their tongues at someone. Date: circa 1961
Four children playing on a Balham street, SW London. One boy seems to be blowing a raspberry at a girl wearing Girl Guides uniform. Date: circa 1961
Robert de Eglesfield, English clergymanRobert de Eglesfield (c.1295-1349), English clergyman, founder of Queens College Oxford in 1341 and chaplain to Queen Philippa of Hainault. Date: circa 1340s
Eva Peron giving a speech to graduate studentsEva Peron (Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, 1919-1952), wife of the Argentinian President, giving a speech to graduate students at the Juan Peron High School
Scouting leader speaking at campfire event, MauritiusA scouting leader speaking to girl guides and boy scouts at a campfire event in Mauritius. Date: 1960s
Plimsoll line stops coffin ships, 1873Comment in Punch magazine on the lifesaving introduction of the Plimsoll line. Overcrowded coffin ships are portrayed literally in the background as floating coffins with masts and rigging. Date: 1873
Winston Churchill addressing meeting in BirminghamWinston Churchill (1874-1965) - British statesman and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Seen here addressing a meeting at the Birmingham Town Hall (along with Lord Hugh Cecil)
Sportsmans Battalions, 1915An advertisement for sportsmans battalions, featuring a despatch rider on a Douglas motor cycle, pointing urgently to some smoking ruins
Canadian scout with Kings Scout certificateCanadian scout, Bryan Peterkin, with his Kings Scout certificate
Wolseley at Myat-Toons stronghold, Burma, 1853Sir Garnet Wolseley(1833-1913) as a young officer in the British army, storming Myat-Toons stronghold, Burma, February 1853
David Penhaligon, Cornish MPDavid Charles Penhaligon (1944-1986), Cornish Liberal MP, seen here giving a speech
A wasted life: satire on the invention of tanks, WW1Kaiser Wilhelm II chides Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer, for not inventing anything useful, like the armoured tanks of the allies. Date: 1916
Lifeboatmen, c1870Three lifeboatmen scan the horizon for seafarers in peril. Date: c.1870
Captain Robert Hook, lifeboatmanCoxswain Robert William Hook (1828 -1911) of the Lowestoft lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll, the saviour of more than 200 lives. Pictured here at Lowestoft harbour entrance in 1883, in a heroic pose
Butchers shop, 1850A curious social scene outside a butchers shop, 1850. A Victorian man gestures towards a rather suprised looking matrons basket of carrots
Vehicle preceded by flag, 1883A man precedes a steam vehicle waving a red flag, to warn road users of its presence and to enforce a speed limit, in keeping with the Locomotive or Red Flag Acts of Parliament
Anwar Sadat at a state dinnerAnwar Sadat of Egypt(1918-1981) at a state dinner in his honour, seated between Moshe Dayan(1915-1981) and the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin(1913-1992)
Jewish Beds BurnedA German soldier stands proudly by a bonfire of beds taken from Jewish homes - a symbolic gesture warning Jews that they will no longer be tolerated in Poland. Date: 1939/1940
Advertisement for the Mond Nickel Company -- female model (Jane Davis) posing in polka dot dress and gloves. 1959
Japan - A Japanese Greeting Date: circa 1910s
South Africa - Two women, a witchdoctor and a childTwo women negotiating with a witchdoctor concerning the blessing of a new house in the village - South Africa. Date: circa 1920s