Images Dated 2004 November

Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim, c.1890

Photographic portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, pictured at her writing desk, c.1890. Her Indian servant Abdul Karim, otherwise known as the Munshi, stands in the background

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Rosyth Naval Base, Scotland, 1908

Illustration showing an artist's impression of how Rosyth Naval Base, in the Firth of Forth, would look when complete. This image was created when the work on the base had only just begun in 1908

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Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, David Lloyd George, General

A photograph of a meeting between political and military leaders of the Allies in France, 1916. The group includes Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928), Commander-in-Chief of the British army and General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), Commander of the French army. Also pictured are the British Secretary for War and later Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863-1945) with the French Minister of Munitions, Albert Thomas

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