Rumour Collection

UVF - Ulster Volunteer Force Poster
Notice posted by the Ulster Volunteer Force intending to quell speculation that its founding was a direct violent challenge to those of differing views within Ulster

Angels of Mons, cover design for piano music
Angels of Mons (Reve Mystique), cover design for solo piano music by Sydney C Baldock, inspired by rumours of angelic intervention in the fighting (Battle of Mons, Belgium)

Cartoon, theatre managers and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, theatre managers (Irving, Toole, James and Bancroft) besieging Queen Victoria at Windsor. Now that a rumour has gone abroad that Her Majesty will one more give theatrical entertainments at

No Room for Rumors
NO ROOM FOR RUMORS American World War Two poster

Shopgirls playing the game of a little bird told me
A mistress of a clothes shop and her staff playing a game of a little bird told me. The women wear bonnets, aprons, and black dresses

Princess Mary and Lord Dalkeith, 1919
Princess Mary(later Countess of Harewood) and Lord Dalkeith pictured with her brothers Prince George(Duke of Kent) and Prince Albert(later George VI) on horseback, 1919

Madame Bertha Trost, an unusual figure in the undercurrents of London society, who went about dressed in Victorian clothes and riding in a carriage

Cartoon, British troops at the Front, WW1
Cartoon, 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

Cartoon, Chancellor Bethmann and his work, WW1
Cartoon, Chancellor Bethmann and his work, showing the German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, replacing the German eagle with a duck (canard, an idiom for a hoax or rumour). Date: 1916

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The tall story, WW1
Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase

Cartoon, At Deauville, WW1
Cartoon, At Deauville, showing four fashionable French women gossiping about war rumours. Date: 1915

French Rejoicing
Wild rejoicings in France when a false rumour circulates that catholic James II has defeated protestant William III at the battle of the Boyne : Jamess flight reveals the truth

Antonio Salieri / Composer
ANTONIO SALIERI Italian composer, Court Kapellmeister in Vienna (1788- 1824). Unfounded rumour that he tried to poison Mozart

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