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LFCDA-LFB Recruits undergoing basic training
Located at Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, the London Fire Brigade Training School is responsible for providing basic training to all its recruit firefighters

Britannia Instructing Her Sons in the Arts & Sciences

Communist China - agricultural workers, probably educated people from a town or city, forced to do manual work during the Cultural Revolution

Pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap
Eight pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Judgement of Solomon. Engraving, 16th century

Miniature with capital letter depicting Inigo Lopez de Mendo
Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458). Spanish writer. Book of Knowledge of All Things. Miniature with capital letter depicting the Marquis writing. By Jorge Ingles (1450-1500)

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). English theologian, philosopher and chemist. Colored engraving. 19th century

History of England. Meeting at the Royal Society of London. Engraving, 1890. Colored

Picture No. 11020136
Teacher teaching his students the Universe. Livre des Proprietes des choses. Miniature. Chateau de Chantilly. France

Relief depicting a Pharaoh Ramses II with different gods. Ramesseum. 13th century. Nineteen dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the kings. Egypt

Caricature of John Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice
Caricature of John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-11894), British lawyer, judge, and Lord Chief Justice of England

George Gaskin
GEORGE GASKIN English churchman : rector of Stoke Newington, prebendary of Ely, secretary of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. Date: 1751 - 1829

Newspaper Tax Opposed
A meeting for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, held at St Martins Hall, Long Acre, London : the chief target is the tax on newspapers. Date: 1851

Two owls on a Christmas card
Two owls and a robin on a Christmas card -- Enquire Within. Date: circa 1890s

Thanks awfully for telling us! Cartoon by H. M. Bateman
Thanks awfully for telling us! Knowledge as it is purveyed: dedicated to the " Daily ___" Bateman here pours scorn on the Daily Mail for its journalistic technique of stating the obvious

GAOS GONZALEZ POLA, Jose (1902-1969). Spanish philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. Portrait by A. Martinez Anaya. Oil on canvas

Traditional Hardware Shop
A traditional family run ironmongers and general store in Barnes, West London during the 1980s. Date: 1980s

Suffragette W. S. P. U Holiday Campaign Kent
Suffragette W.S.P.U Holiday Campaign Kent. Eight members of the Womens Social & political Union or Gypsy Wanderers set off from Lincolns Inn on 9th August 1913

Well of Knowledge, Benares (Varanasi), India
Well of Knowledge, Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1890s

Russian Cavalry Reconnaissance, 1904
Soldiers embarking upon a Russian cavalry reconnaissance during the Russo-Japanese War, (8 February 1904 5 September 1905). Date: 1904

Illustrated London News advertisement, 1913
Advertisement for weekly illustrated paper, The Illustrated London News in its sister publication The Sketch, using the metaphor of a spiders web to convey the wide spectrum of subjects covered in

Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica books
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

William Pinnock
WILLIAM PINNOCK Publisher and writer, author of the celebrated Guide to knowledge and other educational books. Date: 1782 - 1843

Young waif posing for an artist has no knowledge of lunch
A Fact (mores the pity) Artist - " Oh, by the way, have you had your lunch?" Little Waif (posing for the first time) - " Whats that?" Date: 1895

Maxim Gorky, Russian Writer with a Gusli Player
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Maxim Gorky) (1868-1936), Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist

Map of Saint Petersburg (1834). Original drawing
" Map of Saint Petersburg (1834). Original drawing by W.B. Clarke and engraving by B. Davies, originally published under supervision of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

EMPEDOCLES (490-435 BC). GREEK
BOSSUET, Jacques-B nigne (1627-1704). French theologian and bishop. Front page of the Treatise on the Knowledge of God

Galileo points to the heavens

The world wants new knowledge - new skills Enroll - Federal adult schools : Many courses - many places - informal teaching

American Merchant Seamen increase your professional knowledge and skill in the United States Maritime Service. Poster for the United States Maritime Service offering training courses to members of

For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library more often. Poster showing a mortarboard and a pair of glasses superimposed over a globe, promoting use of libraries. Date between 1936 and 1941

For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library often!. Poster promoting library use, showing a man in a pose based on Rodins Thinker.. Date 1940

Mr. James K. Hackett. The tree of knowledge by RC Carton. Date c1898

THE BEETLE EXPERIMENT (Russell Hays) The reckless scientist, pursuing knowledge regardless of the consequences, confronts his unintended creation Date: 1929

Mr George Smith of The British Museum
George Smith had explored the site of ancient Nineveh adding to our knowledge of the Assyrian Empire. He also translated the Gilgamesh epic

National Training School of Cookery at South Kensington. Mo
The National Training School of Cookery was established in 1873, and commenced its work at South Kensington in 1874 with a view to promote generally the diffusion of a knowledge of cookery amongst

National Training School of Cookery at South Kensington: Aft
A lecture on practical cookery, seasoning fricandeau of veal at the National School of Cookery at South Kensington. The school was established in 1873

Scranton Curtains 1919
A lady relaxes contentedly over her breakfast, secure in the knowledge that her curtains - by Scranton, of course - reflect her elegance and good taste

Harry Price Smoking
Psychical researcher and author, who used his knowledge of stage magic to expose phoney mediums, poltergeists and other scams

Dr Francis Willis
DR FRANCIS WILLIS physician, well known for his great range of knowledge in Mechanics

Peter at Amsterdam
Peter travels Europe in quest of knowledge : at Amsterdam a naval battle is staged for his benefit. On his return he will strengthen Russias maritime resources

Eve, Adam, Apple (Martin
She invites him to taste the forbidden Fruit of Knowledge

Pythagoras & Priests
PYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher and mathematician, sharing knowledge and ideas with the priests of Egypt

Advert / Sandwich Man 1828
Sandwichman advertising a ham and beef shop in Pudding Lane: A man of intelligence - useful knowledge to the people

General J C R a Duchesne
Jacques-Charles-Rene-Achille DUCHESNE French general in Algeria and Madagascar, which he conquered and pacified, extending our knowledge of the island

Fukurokujiu
The elongated head of the god of Good Fortune and Wisdom is due to his years of study, during which he acquired so much knowledge that he needed extra room to store it

Childbirth / Conception
- Children are made, I can tell you that much.... though I don t know how

Futuristic teaching machine in a classroom
A futuristic teaching machine in a classroom. The teacher loads the books into a hopper and the knowledge percolates into the boys heads through wires leading to headphones

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