Reality Collection

Platos Cave Allegory
In Platos Republic Socrates likens mankind to prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows of reality, and the philosophers to those who have been given a glimpse of it

Seance with Rudi Sch
Artists impression of a seance with Austrian medium Rudi Schneider at London, under the supervision of Harry Price : the reality was seldom if ever as dramatic as this !

City of Living Dead
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and F Pratt) Virtual reality foreseen : these sleepers choose to live adventures transmitted to them by sensory control

Cartoon on the Trenches
Well, if you knows of a better ole go to it! A comic glance at the desperate reality of the trenches

Columbia Space Shuttle
The Columbia Space Shuttle (Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV 102). On its first flight in April 1981, it orbited the earth 36 times. Its last flight was in 2003. Date: photo 1983

General Election, Soldier's POV
A General Election, as seen from the point of view of a soldier. We see firstly as it might have been - soldiers being pelted with projectiles by an angry crowd

Comic Postcard - The differences between Love and Marriage... LOVE is the wine of life, but MARRIAGE is the morning after!! Date: 1931

Cartoons, W H Smith as Secretary for War - a Fancy German Portrait, and the Reality. William Henry Smith, newsagent, bookseller and Conservative MP

ADVENTURE MACHINES
In time to come, some will give up consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines, anticipating our virtual reality machines Date: 1930

Lancashire engineering factory workers including a very young apprentice (front centre). Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - Cartoon - Jolly trench warfare
WW1 - " The Incorrigibles" - A dark humoured cartoon illustrating trench warefare with irony. Two soldiers meeting in the trenches

Women and War 1914
A stark reminder of the Reality of War in a cartoon by Will Dyson. Date: Aug 7th 1914

The passage of romance
The Passage of Romance! - Before, During (" Yum Yum" ) and After. The passage from the carefree chase, the early spring of passion and the descent into household drudgery and daily ennui

Edward Harold Begbie
EDWARD HAROLD BEGBIE Journalist, notable for writing a book affirming the reality of the Angels of Mons during World War One. Date: 1871 - 1929

Better than Reality ?
Is watching television more exciting than experiencing reality ? Date: 1930

John Ruskin (Waddy)
JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer, soaring above sordid reality in an ideal world of esthetic exclusiveness... Date: 1819 - 1900

Mermaid on Beach
Dream and reality Date: 1927

Robot arrested at a theatre in Pavia, Italy
A robot is arrested at a theatre in Pavia, Italy, on suspicion of being a fake ! Date: 1935

WW1 - Germans in Poland
WW1 - Illustrating the reality and irony behind German intentions as they arrive in Poland. The Germans " words and deeds", as seen in the poster displayed by the Kaiser

WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - emulating ancestors
WW1 - Cute patriotic British postcard - a little boy strives to emulate the military feats of our ancestors, or in this case his elders! Date: circa 1916

A recuperating wounded WW1 soldier gets his comeuppance - initial delights at the idea of a massage from nurse on the Monday turns into stark realisation tat this might not be quite so pleasurable

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

Two ragged street women disgust respectability
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting two poor ragged street women disgusting another who they describe, with no hint of the obvious irony, as " not respectable"

Joffre and King Albert of Belgium
General Joffre in conversation with King Albert of Belgium (1875-1934), Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian army. Albert was credited with leading a gallant Belgian resistance against the German army

Franco Prussian War. Prussian barricade on the reuil Road: F
The reality of German occupation is summed up in this image of the Ffranco-Prussian war, where German soldiers control the movements of French labourers

Billingsgate Brutes
A genre scene, seemingly charming. In reality a young woman at a doorway is intimidated by two stout Billingsgate fishwives into buying their stinking fish

Romance and Reality 1869
Convent Life - Romance and Reality

Bulgaria and Germany
Bulgaria enters the war on the side of Germany; but when she is faced with reality, she finds she is a tortoise, not an eagle (cartoon based on old fable of eagle and tortoise)

Scholar of Laputa
A scholar of Laputa, deep in thought, is attended by a servant whose duty it is to rouse him to a sense of reality should the need arise

Map of Slovenia 1689
The mountain JAVORNIKI is shown here to the north of the town CERKNIKA. In reality the town is north of the mountain

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