Year Collection (page 5)

Sporting leaders during the reign of King George V
Sporting leaders during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Lord Burghley, Wakefield, Earl of Lonsdale, Bradman, Hobbs. Date: 1935

Royal Navy leaders during the reign of King George V
Royal Navy leaders during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Lord Fisher, Earl Jellicoe, Earl Beatty, Sir Roger Keyes, Vice-Admiral Evans. Date: 1935

RAF leaders during the reign of King George V
Royal Air Force leaders during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Salmond, Brancher, Trenchard, Bishop, Ball. Date: 1935

Prime Ministers during the reign of King George V
Prime Ministers during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Asquith, Lloyd George, Ramsay Macdonald, Bonar Law, Baldwin. Date: 1935

Legal leaders during the reign of King George V
Legal leaders during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Earl of Reading, Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Sankey, Lord Carson, Sir John Simon. Date: 1935

Leading scientists during the reign of King George V
Leading scientists during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Rutherford, Sherrington, Lodge, Eddington, Jeans. Date: 1935

Leading poets during the reign of King George V
Leading poets during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Kipling, Bridges, Masefield, Drinkwater. Date: 1935

Leading musicians during the reign of King George V
Leading classical musicians and composers during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Wood, Beecham, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Walford Davies. Date: 1935

Leading writers during the reign of King George V
Leading authors and playwrights during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Wells, Galsworthy, Bennett, Shaw, Barrie, Buchan, Chesterton

Artists and architects during the reign of King George V
Leading artists and architects during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Orpen, Lavery, Llewellyn, Lutyens, Brangwyn. Date: 1935

Leading actors during the reign of King George V
Leading actors during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Du Maurier, Playfair, Ainley, Thorndike, Gielgud, Jackson. Date: 1935

Leaders in medicine during the reign of King George V
Leaders in medicine during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Moynihan, Horder, Lord Dawson of Penn, Fripp, Simson. Date: 1935

Pioneers in speed during reign of King George V
Pioneers in Land and Air Speed during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Alcock, Brown, Segrave, Campbell, Scott, Campbell Black. Date: 1935

Church leaders during the reign of King George V
Church leaders during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Davidson, Winnington Ingram, Bourne, Lang, Lidgett Date: 1935

Army leaders during reign of King George V
Army leaders during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Hughes Wilson, Earl of Ypres, Allenby, Haig, Robertson. Date: 1935

Cover design, Progress, January 1927 - Lever Brothers magazine, cherub on horseback heralding the New Year Date: 1927

Japanese Hina Dolls - associated with an annual Dolls Festival on 3 March each year, a special day, especially for girls, who display their dolls and invite guests to a grand dinner'

Toolum Mosque
An etching of the interior of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun is located in Cairo, Egypt, completed in the year 879, it stands as one of the oldest mosques in Egypt. Date: circa 1919

Sunday Times Advertisement
A colourful advertisement for Australia's greatest weekly newspaper & magazine, the Sunday Times, in its 36th year of publication

Advertisement for Shaftesbury Homes
An advertisement for The Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Training Ship. Announcing the acquisition of Esher Place, the location of a girl's school

1933 New Year celebrations, photographs of crowds in London, with illustrations of Old Father Time and the baby 1933, with revellers raising a toast. With a poem honouring 1932 and 1933

The First British Postcard
This card was issued exactly one year after Austria invented the idea. It was printed by Messrs De la Rue under an exclusive contract and was an immediate success

The World's First Postcard
The idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865. Later that year

Discovery of the Duke of Monmouth disguised as a peasant, near Ringwood, Hampshire, 8 July 1685. Date: 1685

Advert, Stansfeld & Co, Swan Brewery, Fulham, SW London
Advert for Stansfeld & Co, Swan Brewery, Fulham, SW London, with price list. Date: 1893

Advert, W Blenheim & Co, electrical engineers, Egham, Surrey
Advert for W Blenheim & Co, electrical engineers, Egham, Surrey - electric telephones and apparatus. Date: 1893

New Year Greetings Card - young couple - kiss on the cheek
A New Year Greetings Card, featuring a young German couple sharing a bottle of bubbly and a kiss (above a small incidental table!) - The Passing hours of New Year seem - As peaceful as a happy dream

Llanfair Caereinion - Looking North - personalised Christmas and New Year greetings postcard sent by Mr and Mrs C W Humphreys 1903-4 Date: 1903

The Anglo German Exhibition, Crystal Palace 1913
Less than a year after this Anglo German Exhibition was held at the Crystal Palace, London. Great Britian was at war with Germany

HMS Courageous, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, an aircraft carrier, (formerly a battle-cruiser). HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World

HMS Leviathan, Drake-class armoured cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

Bristol Britannia C. 1 XL638
Royal Air Force - Bristol Britannia C.1 XL638 (msn 13400), of No.99/551 Squadron, at RAF Lyneham in October 1966. (XL638 was written off in a crash at RAF Khormaksar)

Advert, Tomlinson & Co's Butter Powder, churning made easy, good fresh butter all the year round. Date: 1869

HMS Courageous - Fleet aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, a Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher

HMS Boadicea - a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Boadicea, a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century

Pink and blue flowers on a New Year card
Pink roses and blue forgetmenots on a New Year card. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

20th Century 1943 Advertising Baltic Republic
20th, century, 1943, advertising, Baltic, republic, republics, states, civil, people, communist, denounce, first, year, of, Soviet, Occupation, Latvia, latvian, mass, graves, Nazis, occupation

Late Victorian 1890s Card Cards Greetings Design
late, victorian, 1890s, card, cards, greetings, design, new, year, dead, bird, birds, blue, green, sad, sorrow, sadness, died, death, vulnerable, fragile, feathers, morbid, history, historical

Turkey with holly and mistletoe on a New Year card
A magnificent turkey hanging with holly and mistletoe on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Spanish Civil War. 1937!! L'any del triomf (1937!! Triumph's year!). Cover of the Catalan magazine L'Esquella de la Torratxa. January, 1937. Drawing

Steve Ovett, English Olympic athlete
Stephen (Steve) Michael James Ovett (b 1955), English Olympic athlete, middle distance runner, winner of a Gold and a Bronze medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics

Christmas Morning Swimming Handicap in Serpentine 1906
Various scenes of the annual competition at Serpentine lake at Hyde Park, London on Christmas day morning. Date: 1906

BRANDENBURGH HOUSE FUL
Brandenburgh House, Fulham, the residence of queen Caroline during her trial, and the place of her death in 1821 ; it was demolished in the following year. Date: early 19th century

Keeping Green the Memory of the Glorious Dead
Crowds come to pay their respects to the dead as they walk past the cenotaph memorial in Whitehall. A temporary construction in 1919, it was completed the following year in Portland stone

Temple Bar in the Strand, London, prior to 1878. That year the Bar was taken down and rebuilt at Theobald's, Waltham Cross

Scene from the annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardo's Homes in The Royal Albert Hall. Here in the Training Housewives display, the young women demonstrate laundry work

Lord Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers
George William Frederick Villiers, the 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 - 1870), leading English Whig politician, who served as Lord Privy Seal

War-torn Irun; Spanish Civil War, 1936
Photograph showing the burnt-out city of Irun in northern Spain, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Irun was captured by Nationalist forces on 5th September that year

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