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April Fool / Coats 1924April Fool: Two coats and hats on a stand, looking at first glance like a couple embracing
Union Workhouse, Bedale, North YorkshireThe Bedale Union workhouse, erected in 1839 at South End, Bedale, North Yorkshire. Two ladies in large hats converse in the foreground
Woman of the Algerian Berber Ouled Nails TribeWoman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing
WW2 Christmas Card, Holly SoldiersA WW2 Christmas card made in a baking parchment material. The illustration shows a marching line of holly leaves with red berries as the heads of soldiers, wearing tin hats and satchels
Cartoon, The Confidence Trick! (Northcote and Disraeli)Cartoon, The Confidence Trick! Stafford Northcote (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Benjamin Disraeli (Prime Minister) ask John Bull for six million pounds to strengthen their hands at a forthcoming
Victorian Greeting Card - Owls in TownTwo owls in top hats out at night. Date: circa 1890
Bottlenose dolphin wearing Christmas hat
Street scene at Newlyn, near Penzance, Cornwall, England, with two neighbours chatting. Date: 1922
Busy Summer Morning on The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: 1914
Cartoon, Henry Jameson Turner, actorCartoon, Henry Jameson Turner -- A Strand Veteran. He was the longest-serving actor at the Strand Theatre, London, and also ran a theatrical agency. 1883
Battle of Inkerman, Crimean War 1854Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War. Date: 5th November 1854
Woman police officer attending an accident where a man appears to have fallen off a ladder. She is speaking into her hand-held radio. Date: circa 1970s
Woman police officer in new Surrey uniformWoman police officer (Eileen Greenwood) in the new Surrey uniform introduced in 1973. The jacket was single-breasted with four buttons, and the hat was in black and white with a checked design
Men in Ulster coats from the 1920s.. Men in double-breasted Ulster coats, with hats, gloves, canes and spats, in a snow scene
Golfers at the Redan, North BerwickA group of well-known people at the famous hole on the North Berwick links: Miss Katherine Tennant on the left, then Lady Oxford; Lady Dorothy Macmillan; Mrs Sylvester Gates; Lady Constance Hatch;
Woman in flapper dress 1923Soft georgette evening gown, with cross-over bodice, edged with narrow band of self-coloured satin. Two flat panels appeared at the front and back of the skirt
Winter Morning by Muriel Dawson -- two children out walking in the snow with three dogs. Date: 1941
Two girls out in the snowTwo girls, wrapped up in winter coats and hats, and carrying an umbrella, enjoy a stroll in the snowy countryside. c. 1905
Queen Elizabeth II using a cine cameraQueen Elizabeth II spotted using a cine camera to capture the action of an event she is attending. Date: c.1965
Ladies Hats 1871Seletion of fashionable bonnets from 1871
Two women out walking with dogsTwo women out walking with terrier dogs. Date: circa 1930s
Tatler front cover, 1958Front cover of The Tatler for April 1958 featuring a model wearing a hat, or Easter bonnet, by French designer Pierre Cardin, using yards of wide-mesh net, swathed on a white
Advertisement for Charles Baker & Co.s Stores Ltd. - Gentlemen & Boys high-class clothing & outfitting - " Opened to keep pace with the Civil Service Stores" circa 1890s
Bolivia - La Paz - Aymara Indians Date: circa 1910s
Metropolitan Fire Brigade helmetMetropolitan Fire Brigade brass helmet, used until replaced by a cork version in the 1930s
LCC-LFB Fireman in his fire kit with new cork helmetA London fireman in his fire kit, including the new style compressed cork helmet with its LFB crest, which replaced the traditional brass helmets used since the days of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade
The Royal Scots Greys - 2nd Dragoons. Officer - Review order. The Colonel-in-Chief was (at this time) Tsar Nicholas II ! Date: circa 1910s
Lady Charles Cavendish (Adele Astaire) in SchiaparelliLady Charles Cavendish, formerly Miss Adele Astaire (sister and dancing partner of Fred) pictured wearing a coat and skirt in green tweed trimmed with galliac, worn with a blouse of black jersey
The Rocky Twins with top hat and canes, late 1920s Date: late 1920s
A cockle woman of Pembrokeshire, South WalesAn elderly cockle woman of South Wales, in a posed photograph with a painted backdrop behind her. She is probably from the coastal village of Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed
Wandering Uzbek Dervishes from Samarkand. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth
Naval Cadets HornpipeNaval cadets learning the Hornpipe onboard the HMS Arethusa, the cadet training ship
Mediaeval HeaddressesMedieval ladies in their fancy headdress
Eton College courtyardScene with teachers and pupils in the courtyard of Eton College
W Heath Robinson - At the At Home
The Australian Cricket Team 1890. 1890
Harrow School, North London - The Old School Building at the top of the Obadiah Slope. Date: 1939
Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens HospitalChristmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister
Vanity by William BarribalA young woman beams widely as she adjusts her large Merry Widow style hat, gripping an evil-looking hat pin in her mouth. Date: 1910
Fishermen with boats, Southwold, SuffolkFishermen Rogers, Craigie, Craigie and Jed Palmer, on the beach with boats, Southwold, Suffolk, September 1907. 1907
Falcon stagecoach at Wadebridge, CornwallFalcon stagecoach with passengers, and crew in historical costume, on the road at Wadebridge, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980
Princess Anne, Princess Royal, in CornwallPrincess Anne, Princess Royal, on an official visit to Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s
The Penmare Boozy-Doos, Hayle Carnival, CornwallThe Penmare Boozy-Doos at the Hayle Carnival, Cornwall -- men in drag, in drum majorette costumes. Date: circa 1980s
Yorkshire Rugby County Football Team, 1894-95: Hirst (Hon Sec), Donaldson, Barraclough, Nowell, Riley, Walton, Millar (President), Broadley, Arnold, Toothill (Captain), Jackson, Dobson, Firth, Riley
Man on veteran motorcycle with young girl riding pillion circa 1915/20
Caricature of the actor J G Taylor -- Much More Than The Ninth Part. circa 1880s
Millicent Duncan, early woman police officerMillicent Duncan, an early woman police officer. Date: 1910s
Edith Smith, first woman police officer in UKEdith Smith, first woman police officer in the UK, working in the Grantham area. Date: circa 1915