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Governor Macquarie
A portrait painting of Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, 1762-1824, a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland, who served as the fifth governor of New South Wales between 1810 to 1821

Music cover, Little Girls Very Easy Waltz, by Ezra Read. Date: 1930s

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

Spanish Civil War poster, Read anarchist books and you will be a man. circa 1937

Men working on Festival of Britain building site, London
Group of men working on the Festival of Britain building site, London. Seen here taking a break to read their favourite newspapers: the Daily Herald, the Daily Worker and the Daily Mirror

Photograph taken by the corner of the Strand and the Aldwych. Showing Inveresk House, (on the left), formerly known as Borthwick House when it held the offices of the Morning Post, became, in 1928

Queen Victoria January 1901 News Newspaper Report
queen, victoria, january, 1901, news, newspaper, report, reporting, british, royal, royalty, dead, death, events, event, official, announcement, crowds, gathered, reading, read, mansion, house

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Leed Verdad, vuestro diario (Read Verdad (Truth), your newspaper). Unified journal of the communist and socialist parties. Poster. SPAIN. Salamanca

Guerra Civil Espanola (1936-1939). Trabajadores!! Leed Solidaridad Obrera. Diario de la Revolucion (Workers!! Read Workers Solidarity. Journal of the Revolution). Anarchist poster by E. Vicente

Tashkent secondary school
Boys reading books in the library of their secondary school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Date: 1950s

Young Uzbeks reading about Stalin
Two young Uzbek women reading the first volume of the collected works of Stalin. Date: 1950s

Teacher reading to children
A group of young children huddle around their teacher and listen intently as she reads from a book. Part of the exchange of culture that was the British-Soviet Friendship society. Date: 1960s

Edward VII Opening Parliament 1902
King Edward VII, about to read his speech in the House of Lords on the Opening of Parliament. Date: January 1902

Memorial Cross on Islay, Hebrides; to the men of the "Otranto", wrecked on this coast in 1917. Most gravestones read "Unknown sailor, known only to God". Date: 20th century

THE FORGOTTEN DEAD Two people read the gravestone inscriptions in a country churchyard Date: 1870

QUEEN OF SCOTS WARRANT
The death warrant read to Mary Queen of Scots Date: 1587

St Marylebone Workhouse Inmates
Aged male inmates of Londons St Marylebone workhouse sit in their airing yard, chatting, reading newspapers and smoking pipes. Date: circa 1905

Butterflies, musical play from the Apollo Theatre, London, touring to the Princes Theatre, Bristol, starring Ada Reeve. Libretto by W J Locke, music by J A Robertson, lyrics by T H Read. Date: 1908

Newspaper, L Action Francaise - to understand events Date: 1938

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Free Press
The Caption is Free Press. The Prime Ministers message is This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1945

WW2 - During the evening of May 7th, all over Paris, Special editions are printed announcing the German surrender. Date: 1945

Time for Lessons
The Lesson. Mother teaching her child to read

English tourists and Scot in tartan jacket sailing on Loch Leven in the Scottish highlands. View of Loch Leven Castle in the background

English tourists on a boat near the basalt pillars
English tourists falling overboard on a boat in choppy seas near the basalt pillars of Staffa, Inner Hebrides. Doctor Prosody proves the inconvenience of a timid companion at Staffa

English tourist sketching the waterfall from Ossian s
English tourist sketching the Black Linn falls of the Braan River from Ossians Hall of Mirrors, Dunkeld, Scotland. A dog attacks its reflection and Dr. Factobend smashes a mirror

English tourists watch fishermen opening pearl oysters
English tourists watch Scottish fishermen opening pearl oysters on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Doctor Prosody fishing for pearls in the Isle of Sky

English tourists attacked by Northern gannets in the Orkneys
English tourists losing hats and wigs when attacked by Northern gannets in the Orkneys. Seabirds protecting their nests and eggs. Doctor Prosody attacked by Soland fowl in the Orkneys

Portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrences father, innkeeper Thomas Lawrence. Portly man in wig seated on a chair. Hand-tinted engraving by Frederick Christian Lewis after an illustration by Sir Thomas

Cartoon, A Modest Boast (Social Science)
Cartoon, A Modest Boast -- Britannia reads the report of a recent Social Science Congress, and thinks that her understanding of the subject is better than some people s

Victorian Greeting Card - Kittens Story Time
Four kittens being read a bedtime story. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Kittens Bedtime Story
Five kittens being read a bedtime story. Date: circa 1890

Alfred the Great learning to read. 9th century

Red-vented cockatoo, Cacatua haematuropygia (Psittacus phillipinarum). Critically endangered. From a specimen in the possession of Lady Read

Mother teaching her child to write at a writing desk. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Augustin Legrands Amour et Tendresse (Love and Tenderness), Louis Janet, Paris, 1820

The Sketch read at the Front, 1915
British soldiers at the Front, near the firing line at Ypres, during the First World War, reading The Sketch. Their dug-out is decorated with Sketch pictures

Older girl helps her younger sister read a book - formal studio portrait taken on 17th May 1930. The girls are Vera and her sister Doris Dingley

Ladies reading books in a library. early 19th century

The Prince Imperial Announces the Capture of Puebla
The Prince Imperial, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, is gestured towards balcony, surrounded by men and women watching. The child holds the telegram that announces the French capture of Puebla

Read it to Me but don t listen

Girl with dog - Can t You Read?

Our Advance to Boiselle, by E Handley-Read, WW1
Our Advance to (La) Boiselle, July 1916, watercolour by Captain Edward Handley-Read, First World War. The cloud shows evidence of a gas bombardment. 1916

Between the Acts, ballet dancer reading
Between the Acts by Gordon Nicoll. A ballet dancer reads a magazine in the dressing room during a pause in the performance. Date: 1928

GAF Nomad 22B VH-SNX (msn 103) (GAF - Government Aircraft Factories), of Read Air. SNX is on display at the Australian Aviation Museum adjacent to Sydney Bankstown Airport. Date: 1980s

A couple of hikers stop to read the inscription on the sundial monument to daylight saving campaigner William Willet, Chistlehurst, Kent, England. Date: 1939

Interior of the reading room at the London Library, in St. Jamess Square. Date: 1900

The General Election - Intelligent Voters
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Intelligent Voters. A mild satire as a bunch of working class rural yokels of Mudford take great interest in the finest small print of a prospective

Wedding Ceremony

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