Refuge Collection

Leon Trotsky in Mexico
The Bolshevik leader finds refuge in Mexico. Leon Trotsky pictured here with his wife on the left of the photograph and Senora Rivera (Frida Kahlo), wife of artist Diego Rivera

Queen Victoria and children in mourning at Windsor
Queen Victoria with her daughters, Vicky (Crown Princess of Prussia, standing behind), Alice (kneeling) and her son Prince Alfred, mourning Prince Albert

Cave art paintings, prehistoric discovery
A cave painting of small brown and red stags with horses, composed in Greek style, between two large black bull heads. Cave art discoveries in the Dordogne were by the Aurignacians who sought refuge

Alderney Harbour
The founding of a harbour of refuge on the island of Alderney

Shaftesbury and Arethusa Boys Homes, Royston, Hertfordshire
The Shaftesbury & Arethusa Boys Homes at Royston, Hertfordshire, were set up by the National Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children, founded in 1843 by William Williams

The little house at Arrah
The fortified house at Arrah, refuge for a small party of British officers and 50 sikh soldiers during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

St Michaels Convent, Waterlooville - Refuge & Laundry
The refuge and laundry buildings at St Michaels Convent, Waterlooville, Hampshire, established to receive penitents and young girls in moral danger. Date: circa 1905

Training Ship Arethusa
Boys in naval uniform exercise on the training ship Arethusa, moored on the Thames at Greenhithe and run by the National Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children

Grand Mulet Cabin, Mont Blanc Date: late 19th century

Grand Mulet cabin on Mont Blanc, hand coloured photo, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Tower of Refuge, Douglas, Isle of Man - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Hesshutte, Gesause National Park, Austria
Hesshutte - a mountain refuge in Gesause National Park, located in the Austrian State of Styria. Built by the Alpine company Die Ennstaler in 1893 and named after the Gesause pioneer Heinrich Hess

Knaresborough Castle
A landscape oil painting of a series of woodlands with a foreground clearing, encapsulating a view of Knaresborough castle, looming in the background, in north Yorkshire

A sing-song in the British Embassy at Madrid, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936. A number of British citizens in Madrid had sought refuge in the Embassy

General view of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. A retirement and nursing home for some 540 veterans of the British Army. Date: 1890s

REFUGEE IN ENGLAND
Many opponents of Napoleon's regime take refuge in England : when one of them dies, his funeral at St Johns Wood cemetery is the occasion for a political gesture. Date: 1852

WOLSEY
CARDINAL THOMAS WOLSEY (1475? - 1530), English prelate and statesman, arriving at Leicester Abbey shortly before his death

Manor House, Dalston
View of the Manor House, Dalston, once occupied by the Tyssen family who owned large swathes of Hackney, but by the later part of the 19th century had become a Refuge for Destitute Females. Date: 1875

Normans attacking Hereward the Wakes refuge
Hereward the Wake, also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile (1035-1072) - an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England

A temporary sanctuary for Delhis hard pressed Muslims
A scene at the Jami Masjid Mosque where several hundreds of refugees, after fleeing from their burning homes, were accommodated until refugee camps were ready to receive them

Exterior of the new Lambeth walk, Ragged School, erected by Mr. Beaufoy for poor and destitute children in the neighbourhood. Date: 1851

Unkempt girls receiving punishment from another older pupil at Field Lane Ragged School, London

OVERNIGHT LODGING, ROME
The dormitory of the night refuge in the via Laricana, Rome - straw and a blanket. Date: 1876

LOUIS-PHILIPPE QUITS
Rejected and dejected, Louis- Philippe leave Paris and take refuge in England Date: 24 February 1848

FLOODS IN HOLLAND 1861
Floods in the Netherlands : 300 flooded-out people of Bommelerwoard, in Guelder, take refuge in the castle of Ammerzade, though it, too, is partially under water Date: 1861

POLISH SHORT SKIRT
A Polish girl takes refuge in a Warsaw church when an indignant crowd attack her because her skirt is too short for decency Date: 1929

French Emigres
Une soiree de Coblentz - French emigres flee France, and take refuge in Coblentz just across the German border, where they wait for the Revolution to blow over.. Date: circa 1805

Medland Hall, Ratcliff 1900
London : Medland Hall, Ratcliff - the mens dormitory Date: 1900

SCRIPTURE READING
Scripture reading in the mens ward of a night refuge, London Date: 1870

PARIS REFUGE DE NUIT
Paris - Municipal refuge de nuit on the quai de Valmy Date: 1892

Taking Shelter in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station
Crowds seek refuge in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station during a Luftwaffe air raid. 1940

Perkin Warbeck at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest
Perkin Warbeck (c.1474-1499) takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest. By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (the younger of the two Princes in the Tower)

Newport Market Refuge and Industrial School, Soho, London
The Newport Market Refuge and Industrial School on Market Street, Soho. The School, which developed into a training establishment for military bandsmen, later moved to Coburg Row, Westminster

Training Ship Arethusa, Greenhithe, Kent
The training ship Arethusa and Chichester operated by the National Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children, a charity founded in 1843 by William Williams

Crossing the sands at Lindisfarne
Horse and cart crossing the sands at Lindisfarne during low tide. A refuge box from the rising waters can be seen on the left, as well as markers for walkers

London Cripples Home, Marylebone Road
The Cripples Home began life in 1851 as the Hill Street Refuge for Girls. It moved to new premises on Marylebone Road in 1864. Date: circa 1877

Garibaldis Hut (Capanno Garibaldi), Ravenna, Italy - where he hid from Austrian forces in 1849. Date: circa 1910s

Turkey. Kaymakli Underground City. Tunnel. Cappadocia Region

Capture of Cetshwayo. Colored engraving of Spanish and Ameri
Capture of Cetshwayo. The detachment of Major Marter sights the Kraal, last refuge of the ex-king of the Zulus. Colored engraving of Spanish and American Illustration, 1879

French Revolution (1789-1799). The royal family took refuge in the Assembly after the assault on the Tuileries (August 1792) and the suspension of the functions of King Louis XVI

John Bright as a Lord
JOHN BRIGHT, statesman, depicted - improbably ! - as seated in the House of Lords - which he had criticised as a refuge for worn-out members of the House of Commons. Date: 1811 - 1889

Pierre Thomines Du Bosc
PIERRE THOMINES DU BOSC French protestant preacher and theologian, won the favour of Louis XIV, but incurred the enmity of the Catholics and took refuge at Rotterdam. Date: 1623 - 1695

Italy / 452 / Refugees Venic
Italian civilians seek refuge in what today is Venice Date: 452

Night Refuge Bathroom
A London night refuge - the mens bathroom Date: 1870

House of Refuge, Aberdeen
Children play outside the House of Refuge, Cumberland House, Guestrow, Aberdeen Date: 1857

Shaftesbury Homes - Boys Refuge, London
One of the first Shaftesbury Homes establishments, the Boys Refuge at Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields. Date: circa 1857

Shelter from the snow. Young woman and her daughter take refuge in a snowstorm. Artist: Mary Ellen Edwards Date: circa 1890

David flees for refuge to King A ??. Date: circa late 19th century

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