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Russia Carriage InteriorPassengers inside a railway carriage in Russia Date: 1891
18Thc Frnc / Abbe DelilleThe Abbe Delille reciting verse to attentive aristocratic ladies Date: 18th century
Reading a StoryReading a story to guests at a Christmas house party Date: 1892
Thought-Reading HorseAlpha, the thought-reading horse, currently performing at the London Aquarium : he is evidently a whizz at arithmetic Date: 1895
Voltaire HildburghausenFrancois-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778) the French writer and philosopher reading L Annee Litteraire
Crackers by Charles RobinsonChildren have fun pulling Christmas crackers, wearing the paper hats and reading the jokes that came out of them Date: 1906
Charles Dickens reading to an audienceCHARLES DICKENS (1812 - 1870) Dickens reading The Story of Little Dombey at St Martins Hall in 1858. Date: 1858
Cartoon, The Interview, WW1Cartoon, The Interview. A professor on another planet gives a journalist his views on life on Earth. On the subject of the First World War, the journalist asks: Who will be the winner, people or fire
Reading to Alice / LeslieAlice in Wonderland - a mother reads to her daughter Date: 1879
Reading a PalmA gipsy fortune teller reads a young womans future in the palm of her hand Date: 18th century
Herbert SamuelSIR HERBERT LOUIS SAMUEL 1st VISCOUNT SAMUEL English politician, Liberal MP Date: 1870 - 1963
Lathom / WhitehallALICE, COUNTESS OF LATHOM British aristocracy - daughter of 4th Earl of Clarendon; married 1st Earl of Lathom (Baron Skelmersdale) in 1860 Date: - 1897
Tennyson reading MausAlfred, lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) writer, Poet Laureate, depicted in 1855, reading his poem Maud
Satire / Woman of MindMy wife is a woman of mind Date: 1847
Herbert John GladstoneHERBERT JOHN GLADSTONE VISCOUNT GLADSTONE English politician, son of WE Gladstone Date: 1854 - 1930
London Club / Connell / 1858Five o clock p.m. at a fashionable London club Date: 1858
Thos Cranmer / Hb HallTHOMAS CRANMER Archbishop of Canterbury Date: 1489 - 1556
Norwegian InteriorInterior of Old Thelemarken House in Bygdo near Christiania, Norway Date: circa 1880
Serving CoffeeThe maidservant serves coffee for her master as he sits reading Le petit Journal in the garden Date: 1885
Library of H. G. WellsArchitect Frank Wells, son of the famous author H.G. Wells, reading in the library of his fathers home at Chiltern Court, London. Burmese figures support the book shelves. Date: 1930s
Frederick FarrarFREDERICK WILLIAM FARRAR clergyman and writer, author of Eric; or, Little by Little & other stories Date: 1831 - 1903
Lloyds JournalsReading the foreign journals for news of shipping Date: 1846
W Irvings StudyWASHINGTON IRVING American writer sitting reading in his study Date: 1783 - 1859
Perambulate library 1857A Gentleman travelling from village to village, wheeling a large box containing a supply of books to rural people. Once they had received their books he would take the next set that they had used to
Opening of ParliamentQueen Victoria opens Parliament, with the reading of the Queens Speech in the House of Lords to members of the Commons and Lords. Date: circa 1841
Beardsley Woman ReadingA Beardsley woman reading... Date: 1895
Couple courting: The Triumph of PoetryThe Triumph of Poetry. Date: 19th Century
Fmc Fourier / Anon / LizFRANCOIS-MARIE-CHARLES FOURIER French social theorist Date: 1772 - 1837
A girl reading poetryA girl with ringlets reading poetry at twilight. Date: Circa 1840
Saint Cuthbert / Farne IslSAINT CUTHBERT Alone on Farne Island, where he lived as a hermit Date: 635? - 687
Victorian Girl ReadingVictorian girl with ringlets pauses to think while she reads. Date: circa 1840
Cartoon, British troops at the Front, WW1Cartoon, British troops at the Front. Rumour has it that British troops on the Western Front are living in idle luxury, leaving it to the French to do any nasty fighting that has to be done
Churchill at HomeWINSTON CHURCHILL at home, reading, on the eve of World War Two Date: 1874-1965
Woman reading in a French attic bedroomAn elderly French woman reading peacefully in her attic bedroom. Date: circa 1800
Futuristic machine for reading human thought wavesA futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928
The palmists warning (The New Science) -- an engaged couple have just had their palms read, and the palmist has warned them that they are not suited to each other. Date: 1887
Lady having her palm readA lady having her palm read while others look on. Date: 18th century
Listening to a StoryReading a story to guests at a Christmas house party Date: 1892
Woman reading on a reversible New Year cardWoman reading in her garden, watched by three men, on a reversible New Year card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Battersea Mobile LibraryThe interior of Battersea mobile library in the 1950s with various keen bookworms browsing the shelves and having their chosen books stamped by the librarian. Date: 1950s
Kent Mobile LibraryA mobile library van making a stop in an unidentified Kentish village, late 1940s-early 1950s. Date: c.1950
Young women at Queens College, Harley Street, LondonYoung women reading and writing in the waiting room at Queens College, a girls independent school in Harley Street, London. Date: circa 1905
Wernher Reading Room, Bedford College for Women, LondonWernher Reading Room, Bedford College for Women, Regents Park, London. Date: circa 1910s
Children at a tableYoung boy and girl sit at a garden table reading and working. Artist: F Majo Date: circa 1920
Davies Street and Mount Row, Mayfair, London W1. Date: circa 1900s
James Johnstone 19CJAMES JOHNSTONE Newspaper proprietor Date: 1815 - 1878
Rufus Daniel IsaacsRUFUS DANIEL ISaCS 1st Marquis of Reading Politician, lawyer, ambassador and Viceroy of India (1921-1926) Date: 1860 - 1935
Royal Masonic Institute for Boys, Bushey - House RoomRoyal Masonic Institute for Boys, Bushey - boys sit at tables reading in a House Room. Date: Date unknown
