Secret Collection (page 2)

Woman sleeping at a desk while a man reads her secret
Woman asleep in a library while her guardian reads her secret thoughts. Miseries of Reading and Writing. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Two men falling off their horses after showing off. Showing Off. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson to accompany Reverend James Beresfords Miseries of Human

A Rose in Roses. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem, The Gardeners Daughter. Date: c.1920

Cartoon, That Ballot-Boy Again! (Ballot Bill)
Cartoon, That Ballot-Boy Again! The Ballot Bill (legislation for the use of a secret ballot in elections) was proving difficult to get through

Cartoon, The Strong Government (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, The Strong Government -- a satirical comment on Gladstones government introducing the Ballot Bill (legislation for the secret ballot in elections)

Ian MacPherson, Secretary for Ireland
(James) Ian Stewart Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron, (1880 - 1937), British lawyer and Liberal politician, pictured at the time he was appointed Secretary of State for Ireland in the 1919

Clandestine wedding or Fleet Marriage, London
Clandestine wedding or Fleet Marriage by St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London. 18th century

Jan van Hoof Memorial Statue, Nijmegen, Holland
Jan was a student and a member of the Dutch Secret Service at the time of Operation Market Garden in September 1944. A citizen of Nijmegen

Helen Gilbert in The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) wore this evening ensemble desiged by Dolly Tree that went back to her grandmother?s day for fashion significance

Young man playing cache cache mitoulas with a group of girls in a garden, after a painting by Nicolas Lancret. In this game

Pot a surprise or puzzle jug from Savignies, Oise, France, with handles and hidden spout. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery

Timothy Marshals lock and candle extinguishers
Marquis of Worcester Timothy Marshals secret escutcheon for a lock, and self-acting candle extinguishers including John Isaac Hawkins. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Operation Stocking - Father Christmas
Operation " Stocking". A top-secret aspect of an astronomical organisation required to fill all stockings on Christmas Eve. Who knew there was more than one Father Christmas? 1950

Poster, Keep it Dark, Careless Talk Costs Lives, WW2
Poster, Keep it Dark, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Second World War. circa 1940

Illustration, Frank Heartwell discovering the treasure. Date: 1842

Evangeline Booth, Salvation Army, by Ira L Hill
Portrait of Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army (daughter of William Booth, founder), by Ira L Hill. Used for her 1919 lecture tour, The Secret of the Salvation Armys Success. circa 1919

The Secret Office at the General Post Office, 1844
The Secret Office, at the General Post Office in London, 1844. Letters were opened and re-sealed in the Secret Office under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. 1844

Advert for Debenham & Freebody womens lingerie 1927
The New Corslo Corset, in cotton tricot with centre busk and boning either side, all bones removable for washing, four suspenders. Date: 1927

Ancient Egypt up-to-date - Can you keep a secret? Series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck to commemorate the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924/25. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: 1924

Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line, WW1
The Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line. He foolishly endeavoured to obtain information from our sign boards!

Paris Gestapo WWII
Official photo of officers of the Paris Gestapo. Date: 1939-1945

Albatros L. 72c Albis D-1140
Albatros L.72c Albis D-1140 (msn 10108) of the Hamburger Fremdenblatt newspaper. The L.72 was most likely studied as a bomber during the early secret German rearmament programs

Have you heard
circa 1910s

CASTING A VOTE 1978
A woman casts her vote on polling day Date: 1978

POLISH KOSSINIERI
Members of a patriotic secret society, the KOSSINIERI (literally, the scythers) swear to fight for the freedom of Poland against the hated Russians who rule them Date: 1 May 1821

TRADES UNION INITIATION
Initiation into a TRADE UNION - due to official hostility (unionists were perceived as revolutionaries) the earliest unions conducted themselves like secret societies Date: circa 1835

A new recruit joins the Maquis (French Resistance). Date: 1944

Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies
Sidney George Reilly (c.  1873 c.  1925), commonly known as the " Ace of Spies", secret agent of the British Secret Service Bureau

Keep Our Secrets Secret - a poster created by The Central Office of Information during the Cold War. Date: 1960s

Secret Garden / Mary / Door
Mary finds the door. Date: First published: 1911

Ufos / Foo Fighters
During World War Two, American bombers encounter foo fighters during a bombing raids on Germany; at first they are thought to be secret weapons

Ufos / Dodin / Krasnoyarsk
At Krasnoyarsk Krai, East Russia, writer/lecturer Veniamin Dodin two nights running sees a dirigible-like object over a secret research area, which separates

Naval orders for capture of Cherbourg, WW2
WW2/MARITIME: Important archive relating to Sub Lt. David Johnson and HMS MTB 770, a motor torpedo boat of the Fairmile D Class

Comic postcard, Little girl and boy sharing a secret Date: 20th century

Operation Gold. Reconstruction of the tunnel built by American intelligence and British between 1954 and 1955 to link the west and east side of the city

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

The Sixtus Affair, fighting over Alsace-Lorraine
Cartoon in Punch magazine entitled Discipline. The blackboard reads France ought to have Alsace-Lorraine Carl referring to the German suspicions that in March 1917 a secret message was sent

Tatler front cover, Secret Gardens 1964
Front cover of The Tatler showing a little girl, Victoria Scott-Brown, sitting quietly in one of the gardens in Cadogan Street, London, wearing a Tana Lawn dress by Liberty. Date: 1964

Anne-Jean Savary
ANNE-JEAN MARIE RENE SAVARY, duc de Rovigo French secret service agent, statesman Date: 1774 - 1833

Romania - The Calusari
The Calusari - members of a Romanian fraternal secret society who practiced a ritual acrobatic dance known as the calus. Date: circa 1906

Initiation to the Master of Secrets
Initiaition ceremony where the member is given a secret and receives a wreath. 1890s

Vehmgericht / Secret Soc
Members of the Vehmgericht, or Judges of the Secret Court, of Westphalia, who have just hanged one of their victims from a tree Date: 16th century?

Walled garden, Great Maytham Hall, near Rolvenden, Kent
View of the walled garden at the back of Great Maytham Hall, a Grade II listed country house near Rolvenden, Kent. It was the inspiration for the childrens classic, The Secret Garden

Careless Talk Costs Lives - World War II poster
A poster instructing civilians to " Keep it under your hat" and not to gossip, in case vital information is inadvertently passed to the enemy

Prince Carol and Princess Helen of Romania
Crown Prince Carol of Romania, later King Carol II, with his fiancee Princess Helen of Greece in 1921. When they married, Carol already had a chequered past

Carbonari Initiated / 1820
New members are initiated into the Carbonari, the Italian nationalist secret society. The oath of initiation was based on that of the Freemasons

Russia / 1918 / Cheka Prison
Prisoners held by the Cheka, a secret police force established in December 1917 to investigate counter- revolutionary crimes

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