mail_outline sales@mediastorehouse.com
No. 2 (Battle) War Hospital, Reading, BerkshireStaff and patients in Ward A13 at the No. 2 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Battle School, Cranbury Road, Reading
Oh, Cheese it! by W. Heath RobinsonA remarkable case of absence of mind in a Dutch restaurant. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans
Helen Keller reading BrailleHelen Adams Keller (1880-1968), American author and lecturer, blind, deaf and mute from the age of 19 months; sitting in a chair, reading a book
Picnic on the BeachTwo girls take a break from driving, and enjoy a picnic on the beach and a spot of reading
Gypsy & Crystal BallA Gypsy fortune teller gazes deeply into a crystal ball. Other tools of divination are nearby, the drained teacup for reading the tea leaves, and a pack of cards for the tarot
Lending Library TicketTicket for G Hitchcock, Williams & Co Young Mens Library. Book: S58 has been borrowed for 7 days from a private lending library possibly at a booksellers
The Lyceum Club, 1908The Lyceum Club, formed in 1903 for the purpose of bringing together the cultured women of the world for mutual knowledge and understanding, for the furtherance of their intellectual interests
Shoe shine Lisbon, PortugalA young shoe shine man reads a newspaper while waiting for his next customer in a Lisbon street Portugal. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989
Marianne Faithfull, singer, songwriter and actressMarianne Faithfull (b.1946), English singer, songwriter and actress. Seen here as a teenager at the Prospect Theatre, Reading, where she went to school. circa 1962
Tristram Shandy by Hogarth, designed by Mr. Hogarth for Mr. Sternes comic novel, incomparable Tristram Shandy. The characters in the representation so graphically depicted are Mr
John Masefield, English poet and writerJohn Masefield (1878-1967), English poet and writer, seen here in uniform during the First World War. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967. 1917
Edward DonovanEDWARD DONOVAN Well-fed naturalist, reading a paper with the aid of spectacles. Date: 1768 - 1837
English Scientist Michael Faraday PortraitMichael Faraday English scientist Date: circa 1830s
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), versatile French born British writer of poetry, history, and essays. Date: 1914
Lenin Reads Pravda 1918VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN reading Pravda in his study
Prep School DormitoryBoys lying on their beds in a dormitory
Group portrait, possibly of the Brewster family, in a domestGroup portrait, possibly of the Brewster Family, in a domestic interior, oil on canvas, signed by Thomas Bardwell and dated 1736
London Trade Card - Francis Nobles Circulating Library, Otways Head, King Street, Covent Garden. 18th century
Ch Parry / Hodgson / CassellCHARLES HUBERT PARRY English composer and director of the Royal College of Music Date: 1848 - 1918
Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties, including a working model of the Metropolitan electric railway train with
Whistley Bridge House, Whistley Green, Reading, EnglandWhistley Bridge House, Whistley Green, Reading, near Wokingham, Berkshire, England. Date: 1900s
Poster advertising British military uniform, WW1Poster advertising British military uniform, The Studington Military Kit... obtainable only from Studd & Millington Ltd, Military Tailors. Chromolithograph poster, 1914 (c)
Reading The Tatler in Gallipoli, WW1A Topping Tonic after taking Turkish Trenches - some officers of the gallant Lancashire Fusiliers enjoying a short respite with an old and valued friend
A set of 8 lithographs - WWI eraA set of 8 lithographs in a folio. 1) Inscribed Private B. Miller, Queens Westminsters, out since 1914, 2) Inscribed Of the Labour Battalion, 3) A soldier reading a newspaper
Boys from St Benets Home, Caversham, ReadingBoys from the St Benets Home at 11 Kidmore End Road, Emmer Green, Caversham, near Reading, Berkshire. The home was opened in 1905 by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1920s
Tsar Nicholas II in his hunting Lodge, 1894Tsar Nicholas II (1868 - 1918) seated and reading in his hunting Lodge in Sarikamis, a town in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Date: 1894
Reading, Berkshire - Cross Street from Broad Street - A view of Thomas Flemings Olde Curiosity Shoppe, selling antique furniture, China, Pictures & Workd of Art. Date: circa 1886
Dog Playing a TrumpetA dog playing a trumpet, reading sheet music from a stand! Date: early 1930s
Reading War Hospital, Reading, BerkshireDuring the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital
Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etcPoster or handbill advertising Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc, using the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to Newhaven and Dieppe, programme free from any office of Thomas Cook & Son
Forty Winks by C. E. WilsonA dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt
Elderly mans secret reading materialAn elderly pipe smoking gent raises an eybrow as he reveals it is not the daily newspaper which is grasping his attention
Saint Bruno / Butler LivesSAINT BRUNO alias BRUNO THE GREAT Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine
Sleeping CongregationThe Sleeping Congregation A preacher is reading his sermon to a sleeping congregation
Cafe Josty Scene 1890CAFE JOSTY A gentleman pours cream into his coffee, while a couple are engrossed in their conversation. At the next table a man reads a paper Date: 1890
Ludwig Ii / Sophie CharlotKING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA AND PRINCESS SOPHIE CHARLOTTE Seen during their engagement: the marriage was cancelled in strange circumstances
Plutarch / Thevet 1584PLUTARCH Greek biographer and historian
THE LITTLE LIBRARIANThe little librarian A girl sits on a fur rug, with her doll and a cat for company, and chooses a large book from the shelf to read
Art Nouveau Lady 1904A typical Art Nouveau lady, with red poppies, reading a book
Japanese Geisha / C1900Young geisha reading
St Andrews UniversityWomen students at St Andrews University reading books and making notes in the library
Rufus Isaacs PhotoRUFUS DANIEL ISaCS later marquess of Reading, lawyer and statesman, attorney-general, lord chief justice, ambassador to USA, viceroy of India
St Philomena / Vie SaintsSAINT PHILOMENA who never was : her existence arose from a mistaken reading of stones found with human remains at Rome on 25 May 1802
Game / Children ActingA little girl stands on a stool and reads from a script, while her friends and their toys form the audience
Maskelyne & Cooks automaton, PsychoMaskelyne & Cooks thought-reading, whist playing automaton, Psycho, as demonstrated at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London
Reading in a hammockChildren in the garden reading. From Travels in Toyland, published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: Rosa Petherick Date: 1912
British Museum - new reading-room 1857Interior of the new reading-room in the British Museum, London. Date: 1857
Girl reading a letter beside a stove, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s
