Rents Collection

Athenodorus and Ghost
The Greek Stoic philosopher Athenodorus (died 7 AD) rents a haunted house, whose ghost leads him to its improperly buried bones : regarded as the first investigated ghost story

W. G. Briggs & Co. Ltd Advertisement
A promotional page for W. G. Briggs & Co. Ltd, an advertising company, showing a cluster of portrait photographs of varying types

One Tun Ragged School, Westminster
Children outside the One Tun Ragged School, in Perkins Rents, Westminster, housed in a former pub. Date: circa 1860s

Tenantry Column, Alnwick, Northumberland - a monument erected in 1816 by the tenants of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland in thanks for his reduction of their rents during the post-Napoleonic

Charles Parnell at a Anti Rent Meeting 1879
Charles Parnell an Irish nationalist, addressing an anti-rent meeting at Limerick, Ireland. Date: August 1879

Quit Rents ceremony, Royal Courts of Justice, London
The ancient ceremony of Quit Rents taking place in the Royal Courts of Justice, London. The paying of quit rents by the Corporation of the City of London to the King (or Queen)

Undated photograph of enlarged portion of ectoplasm
Undated photograph of enlarged portion of " ectoplasm", showing rents, warps and weft. This is one of series of photographs of Harry Prices investigations into the mediumship of Helen

Ladies Land League
Dispersing a Ladies Land League meeting. The league was formed in 1881 by Anna Parnell and favoured reduced rents and resistance to the evictions

Cattle Seized
When Irish farmers respond to Parnells instruction and refuse to pay their rents, their cattle are seized by the authorities at Sligo

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