Images Dated 20th November 2004

Royal Irish Constabulary going by sea to enforce evictions

Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary going in open sailing boats called 'hookers' to enforce evictions on the Islands of the West Coast of Ireland. These forcible evictions were the backdrop to the land and rent wars in the mid to late 19th century

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Wyld's 'Great Globe', Leicester Square, London, 1851

Engraving showing the building built for 'Wyld's Great Globe' in the early 1850's. This building housed a 10, 000 sq. foot painting of planet Earth. During the Crimean War, the positions of the fighting forces of Britain, France, Turkey and Russia were posted onto the painting, as the latest news arrived in London

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Sir Robert Baden-Powell leading a cavalry charge, 1899

Illustration showing Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, leading a cavalry charge in South Africa, 1899. He is shown in the uniform of the Special Corps, which he raised in British Bechuanaland. Upon his return to Britain Baden-Powell became better known as the founder of the Boy Scouts

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