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The Zulu war. Scene of the Battle of Isandula (Isandhlwana)After the Battle of Isadhlwana. A description by Lieutenant Crealock reads, Day waned and the night hung over the hill, when we reached the last ridge, beyond which lay what had been our camp
Thames Embankment by night - View toward Westminster, LondonThames Embankment by night - View toward the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London. Note the elctricity saving of only lighting every other light. Date: circa 1910s
SANCHEZ, Pedro. Spanish painter active in Seville in the second half of the fifteenth century. THE BURIAL OF CHRIST. Painting on wood. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary
MONTAGNANA, Jacopo da (1440-/43-1499). Italian painter. MADONNA AND DEAD CHRIST. Tempera on wood. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary
The Retreat from Long island. Washington superintending the transfer of troops across the East River. Date: 1776
Terrific Apparition - Londons First Traffic Light 1869Terrific Apparition - Seen during the recent fog at Westminster. A satire on Londons First Traffic Light. Invented by J P Knight, a railway signalling engineer
Interior of a coal mine, Newcastle upon Tyne. circa 1850
BUY A FLOWER, LADY? 1887Buy a flower, lady? A poor London flower girl tries to make a sale Date: 1887
Cartoon, The Optimist and the Pessimist, showing two men reading the same news items about the war but reacting in very different ways. Date: 1915
A Classic English Summers Day on the beach! The rain is pouring, it is freezing cold and even the dog appears to not be relishing his daily stroll
Sunset SceneThe Cities of Spain Sunset Scene. Shows a man on a donkey standing still while enjoying the sunset. Date: 1906
Tuscan Olive Gardens and the hills of the Casentino on a misty morning. Date: 1905
London finance district at the start of World War IFinanciers took a very grave view of the European situation in July 1914, and the dislocation of normal conditions was felt at once in the banking
Rawalpindi outgunned by Deutschland by G. H. DavisThe first sea battle of the Second World War: the British armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindis heroic stand, outgunned by the Deutschland
Trafalgar Square, London - At Night - The misty form of The Church of St Martin in the Fields can be seen past the silhouettes of one of the four bronze lions, on granite plinths
The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - MortalityMrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s
South Marsh Mill, Arundel, West SussexSouth Marsh Mill on River Arun at Arundel, West Sussex - emerging from a misty gloom... Now converted into a house and (sadly) bereft of its magnificent sails Date: circa 1920
The Houses of Parliament at Night - London, England Date: 1910
The Charm of a London Night Fog - amazing lighting effects as the beam of a street light diffuses through the shape of a roadside tree. Date: 1919
Queen and the Huntsman
Going into the Garden to Eat WormsAn expression of utmost displeasure and disappointment - a little chick completely fed up states: " Nobody loves me - I m going into the garden to eat worms." Date: 1918
A London Fog, 1847Engraving showing a street scene in London, on a particularly foggy day, 1847. This image shows several people carrying burning torches to try to find their way through the gloom. Date: 2 January 1847
Serb Soldiers Kiss CrossSerbian soldiers kiss the Christian crucifix before invading Bulgaria. Sadly, it won t do them a spot of good, they will be soundly beaten and return home in gloom
Oedipus Tyrannus 4Tiresias, blind soothsayer who foretells gloom and woe : a messenger from Corinth who brings bad news : a herdsman of Laius who has disquieting revelations
Sir Henry Morton Stanley and his men exit a forest, CentralEngraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (centre with walking stick), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, and his companions leaving a dense forest, Central Africa
Figure in the MistA hunched figure walking away into the mist in a public park or garden, along a path bordered by high hedge trees. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd