March Collection (#76)

Political Prisoners
Political prisoners of the tsarist regime are released by the February revolutionaries

Protesting Children
A procession of children demonstrate for an 8-hour working day and an end to child labour. Will the Revolution bring them a workers paradise ?

Siberian Prisoners
Political prisoners exiled to Siberia by the tsarist regime await release : the central figure is Yakov Svevdlov

Soldiers Deputies Meet
Soldiers deputies confer in the Tauride Palace, Petrograd

Burns / Bannockburn March
ROBERT BRUCEs MARCH TO BANNOCKBURN Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe!

Napoleon and Lepers
Napoleon in Egypt, visiting a leper hospital, touches the lepers, and when his staff reproach him, he replies It is my duty, I am the general in command

English Soldiers Ca 1690
Soldiers of William IIIs army march against an expected French invasion in support of the ousted James II

Wounded Guards Visited
Tsar Alexander II assassinated by nihilists : members of the royal family visit soldiers who were wounded when the mine exploded

February Revolution
Victims of the February Revolution

Loris-Melikov Attempt
Minister Lors-Melikov is shot by nihilists, but survives

Procession in Petrograd
A solemn procession on the Nevski Prospekt, Petrograd, mourns those who gave their lives in the name of freedom. Date: March 1917

Preparing Funeral Route
Tsar Alexander II assassinated by nihilists : clearing the route for the funeral procession

Wounded Horses
Tsar Alexander II assassinated by nihilists : two of the horses who were wounded by the explosion

Decorating Tsars Coffin
Decorating the coffin in which the assassinated tsar Alexander II will be buried

Herbert Hoover Acclaimed
Herbert Hoover, newly elected president of the United States (though not to take up office until March 1929) is acclaimed by the electors

Pius XII Enthroned
Pius XII receives the papal tiara at his enthronement

Flower Seller / Piccadilly
Nelly, the loneliest woman in London. Nelly was the only remaining flower seller in Piccadilly when this photo was taken, and even the statue of Eros had been temporily removed

Garibaldi on the March
Garibaldis men on the march in the neighbourhood of Partenico

Voting at Bologna
The people of Bologna vote to join the united Italy

Murder of Rizzio 1566
David Rizzio, the Italian secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, is murdered by Marys husband Henry and his group of conspirators, who stab him sixty times

Austrians in Verona
Austrian troops march through the streets of Verona, which they occupy : the locals are less than thrilled

May Day March - 1936
Workers organisations hold May Day celebrations in Hyde Park - London. This banner is for the Shoreditch Trades Council

French Enter Bergamo
The French expeditionary force march into Bergamo

Currents of Space
THE CURRENTS OF SPACE (Isaac Asimov)

Towton Battle Monument
The Battle Monument, Towton, Yorkshire, England, which marks the site where the Yorkists gained victory over the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses

Lenin at a Funeral 1919
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman (second from left), at the funeral of M.I. Elizarov, Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia

Sverdlovs Funeral
Lenin speaks at the funeral of Yakov Sverdlov in Moscows Red Square on 18 March 1919

Lenin in Stockholm
VLADIMIR LENIN Soviet statesman, seen here in Stockholm, Sweden, before his return to Russia

Fallen Hero Funeral
Lowering a coffin into a grave at the Fallen Heros funeral in the Field of Mars

Nevsky Prospect Regiment
Prebrazhensky Regiment march on Nevsky Prospekt (pro- revolution)

Peoples Militia / Russia
Volunteers sign up for the Peoples Militia in the Tauride Palace

Queen Mum & Stiebel
Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) with Elizabeth, the Queen Mother after his show in Hanover Square in March 1959

Stiebel / Ballgown
A flounced debutante dance frock in shadowy white organdie embroidered with navy blue. Roses held at waist by belt. Billowing skirt falls in tiers over hooped petticoat

Rudi Schneider Test
Tested in London by Harry Price, Austrian medium Rudi Schneider ostensibly moves a handkerchief by psychokinesis, but the findings are not conclusive

Gen. Strike / March 1919
General strike in Berlin, showing Freikorps (probably Lutzow) in Alexanderplatz. Freikorps were used at this time to help suppress Communist uprisings

Red Army / Dinslaken
Red Army (German communist) artillery in Dinslaken

Henri IV Submits
In order to take Paris, Henri IV agrees to placate his Catholic opponents by a nominal conversion to Catholicism - Paris is worth a mass !

Knur & Spell Game
An enthralled crowd watch a game of Knur and Spell, traditionally played in the North of England from Medieval times, from the Norse nurspel ( ball game )

The Jolly Farmer
WILLIAM COBBETT The " Jolly Farmer" at Farnham, Surrey, where Cobbett was born on 9th March 1762

Halt during March
A French regiment on the march halts after every 50 minutes to rest for 10 minutes. Their weapons and baggage are stacked in neat piles

French Avant-Garde
When a French regiment is on the march, the avant-garde precede the main body, and are themselves preceded by eclaireurs who look out for obstacles and signs of the foe

French En Bivouac
French infantry on the march set up temporary encampments, or bivouacs

Red Army / Ruhr 1920
The Red Army of the Ruhr. Communist workers are given weapons in Dortmund

Red Army Offensive
Workers form a Red Army and go on the offensive against the right wing soldiers who had taken part in the Kapp Putsch. Their general strike had helped defeat Kapp

Red Army First Aid / 1920
First Aid workers of the Red Army in Dinslaken at a time when the German communists were in conflict with the government and right wing extremists

Albion Mills Fire
The fire at Albion Mills, on the Surrey bank of the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. Several fire brigades have come to the scene but too late to save the flour and grain

SPOILT CAT
A spoilt young cat reclining on a velvet cushion on a leather armchair!

Goeben Photo
Admiral Souchons Goeben is one of the most powerful warships of its day, manned by over 1000 men and capable of firing at targets up to 233 km away : top speed 28 knots

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