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Chatting over a GateA girl sits on a wall while two men lean against a five bar gate at The Old Mill, Great Bardfield, Essex, and have a discussion
Fight in a PubSons of Friendship - drinkers come to blows
Ludham / Norfolk / StreetA woman pushes a pram through the pretty village of Ludham in Norfolk
Ragged LaundryRather ragged towels and washing, hanging out to dry on a clothes line which stretches across a cobbled street running between back to back London slums
Girl with PushchairA scruffy child with a pushchair
Skipping GirlsThree little girls with a skipping rope, London
Slum Basement WindowTwo poor children peering through the bars of a slum basement, Limehouse, East End of London
Working ClassWorking class street scene, London
Poplar Street SceneA corner of Poplar, a poor working class area in the East End of London
Boy with a HoopA boy rolling a hoop along a pavement beside a high wall on a London street
Dirty Street KidsWorking Class children sunbathing on dirty cushions on a London street
Working Class StreetWorking class people outside their slum terraces, London
Slide QueueA crush on the steps of a playground slide, as one little girl chickens out and decides to get off!
Girl with PramA Working Class boy on a bicycle, posing with a Rag and Bone cart, London
Girls on Door StepTwo working class girls, one of them kneeling on a doorstep holding a skipping rope
Warehouses Street SceneWarehouses and grain silos on a London street
Drinking FountainTwo children drinking from a fountain
Woman / MunitionsA woman working in an ammunitions factory
Woman / FactoryA woman working in a munitions factory
Waves CrashingWaves crashing against the rocks on the Cornish coast
Typist of the TwentiesA typist of the twenties
Manhattan 1960SEast Side, Manhattan
Two Stagecoaches RaceTHE OPPOSITION COACHES Two rival stage coaches speed along a country lane in what appears to be a race against each other
Stage Coach / Flood TideA Flood Tide " Ship a hoy!!" A concerned gentleman is offered passage by jolly boat, but encouraged to stay in the stage which will make the final five mile in 20 minutes
Royal Children / WindsorAlbert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII, 1841- 1910) and his elder sister Victoria, Princess Royal ( 1840-1901) are wheeled through Windsor Forest in a carriage
Tis Gone Text C1875Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze... - text with country scenes including a flock of sheep at sundown
Village Idyll, 1930SAn idyllic scene in the Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. Peace and quiet reigns and families live safely alongside well-behaved teenagers
Agatha Christie, ScenesAGATHA CHRISTIE scenes from her daily life when her first book has made her a literary sensation
Fisherman and SonThe Fishermans Pride
On the Lawn at AscotFashionable race-goers on the Lawn at Ascot
Emigrant Ship MealtimeChaos ensues between decks on an emigrant ship during feeding time as the passengers jostle and push as the food is dished onto plates
Emigration VesselScene between decks on an emigrant ship showing the crowded and unpleasant conditions
Foresters CertificateMembership certificate of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, ornamented with idyllic scenes and pictures of people being kind. Date: early 20th century
Buying CommissionsA satire on the youthfulness of some British Army officers whose fathers buy them a commission. Here a boy- officer is watched over by a nurse who holds his reins
Kitchener / War OfficeHORATIO, LORD KITCHENER Kitchener as Secretary for War receiving the late Lord Roberts in his room at the War Office
Windy Day on the QuaisA windy day on the quais of the Rive Gauche : the bouquinistes aren t doing much business at their bookstalls, but les messieurs enjoy the lifted skirts of the ladies
Irish Woman SpinningScene inside a cottage in the west of Ireland, showing an Irish girl spinning while a pipe-smoking older woman watches a pot on the fire
C15 Battle SceneEnglish knights engage the French in this fine scene from the 100 Years War, in Wynkyn de Wordes Polychronicon printed in 1495
SALLUSTs CRONYCLE / 1520The author presents a copy of his book to his patron - illustration to Richard Pynsons edition of Sallusts Cronycle
FABIANs CHRONICLE / 1516An author presents a copy of his book to his patron - illustration to Richard Pynsons Fabians Chronicle (1516) - but this is not Fabian
Prairie / Music CoverA young couple gaze lovingly at each other as they stand on a vantage point from where they can see their log cabin. Illustration for the song: " When the Moon Hangs High..."
Victoria at WolverhamptonWhen Queen Victoria travelled to Wolverhampton to unveil a Statue of Prince Albert, the Royal party processed through a large coal arch, donated by the Earl of Dudley
Social / Russia / Wig BallSociety Ball of Colour Wigs, given by Countess Shuvalova
Man Walks in SunshineA man walks through Fountains Court, Temple, London, in the morning sunshine
Lenin at Comintern / 1920VLADIMIR LENIN The Russian statesman at the 2nd congress of the Comintern, Petrograd, 1920
Navajo Woman WeavingA Native American Navajo woman weaving
Scottish EmigrantA Scottish emigrant far from his native land recalls the songs he heard at his mothers knee and would very much like to hear them again
Military / Scenes / SiegesSoldiers defending at a castle turret during a siege