Images Dated 18th October 2007 (page 3)

Cardinal / Duc De Lorraine
Charles, Duc et cardinal de LORRAINE Archbishop of Reims, statesman

Cambridge / Market Square
Cambridge: Market Square, with Great St Marys on the right, and Kings College Chapel on the left

Shakespeare / Birthplace
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The house in Stratford-upon- Avon in which Shakespeare was born

Smollett / Horsburgh
TOBIAS SMOLLETT Scottish novelist

Rolling Ingots / France
FRANCE Rolling the ingots at Longwy Steelworks

Poster; Defence of Ussr
for the Defence of the Ussr

Poster; Illiteracy
he who Cannot Read is Like a Blind Man

Poster; Defend the Urals
FORWARD ! DEFEND THE URALS

German Iron Foundry / 1900
GERMANY The interior of an iron foundry, with workers going about their various jobs

Toy Stall / French Market
Toy seller in a Paris street at New Year. She has some very enthusiastic customers

Brighton / Old Steine 1840
The Old Steine, Brighton, Sussex

Covent Garden Mkt Porter
COVENT GARDEN A few people selling their wares from baskets

Vittorio Alfieri
VITTORIO ALFIERI Italian author, instructing his servant to tie him to his writing chair

Wwi / French Leave Home
In occupied France, German troops force French people to leave their homes and families in order to work on farms in designated areas

Ninette De Valois / Photo
NINETTE DE VALOIS Dancer with the Ballet Russe and later founder of the Royal Ballet; a revered teacher, director and choreographer

Englishman of 1670
The Restoration and the permissive society favoured by Charles II are reflected in a new extravagance in dress, as in this gentlemans fancy petticoat, full sleeves etc

Wentworth Street Market
The Jews Market, Wentworth Street, London

Panier Dress ?1777
A lady, in a gown with low, square decolletage and wide hoops or paniers, enters a box at the opera. Possibly a grande robe a la francaise

Wwi / Gallipoli / Amethyst
The British light cruiser HMS Amethyst engages Turkish batteries at Kephez Point, and comes under heavy fire, during the pre-landing phase of the Gallipoli campaign

Bradford / Yorkshire / 1882
Bradford, Yorkshire: a church and smoking chimneys

Summer 1915 / Bon Ton
Summertime fashions for women & girls by Paquin, Doucet, Beer etc. N.B tunic dresses, short voluminous skirts & small vertical hats & feathers or broad brims & flowers

Statue of Zeus, Olympia
The giant statue was carved by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC from ivory. It was slowly destroyed by fire, floods, earthquakes and landslides

Fashion September 1832
Presumably evening gowns? they are made of mousselaine & tulle adorned with ribbons at the shoulder. Both ladies wear black slippers, one has a blue scarf round her neck

Bridgnorth / Shropshire
Bridgnorth, Shropshire: the bridge and St Marys Church Date: circa 1900

Fun at Ostend
High jinks with a beach ball at Ostend as a group of young people form a pyramid shape by climbing on a bathing machine

Bestwood Lodge / Notts
Bestwood Lodge, Nottinghamshire

Beaulieu Abbey / 1908
Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire: door of the abbey church

Back from Longchamp 1799
A lady makes her way back from Longchamp, on the outskirts of Paris, in a shower of rain : her high-waisted, low-cut dress will be soaked, making it more revealing than ever

French Peasants C15
Peasants pause in their work to listen to an itinerant musician

English Costume 1630
As a group of citizens emerge from church, they provide a good cross-section of the clothing of ordinary people of the day

Irish Myth / Mananan Boat
The magic boat of Mananan carries the sons of Turenn to the Garden of the Hesperides

Advert / Swandown Powder
Swandown face powder - for the complexion

Merovingian Woman
A woman of Merovingian France

Fixed Flight - 1
The Aerofix flies by NOT moving - when the Earth does

Ulrich / Wurttemberg / Furst
ULRICH, DUKE OF WURTTEMBERG reigned 1498-1550

Advert / Bread / Graphic Ww1
Poster issued by the Food Controller during World War One when German U-boats were severely reducing food supplies

Ww1 Postcard K Bulldog
Kitchener as a British bulldog guarding the flag

Ww1 Postcard at Home
Wife and daughter think of Papa in the trenches, and hope that he will return safe and sound

Ww1 Postcard Kissing
Allies get together

Great Eastern Forge
In the forge housed on the deck of the Great Eastern iron plating is prepared for the capstan

Advert / De Reszke Cigs
De Reszke cigarettes - a Christmas visitor Date: 1938

Jonathan Swift / Holl
JONATHAN SWIFT Irish-born churchman and writer

Sappho (On a Gem)
SAPPHO Greek poet

Karl Schwarzschild
KARL SCHWARZSCHILD German astronomer

Mary Countess Pembroke
Mary Sidney, countess of PEMBROKE, wife of Henry Herbert, second earl writer and patron of the arts

Advert / Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom perfume, toilet powder and soap - none nicer

Advert / Ginger Ale / Punch
Rosss Ginger Ale

Gladstone Vs Land League
THE IRISH DEVIL-FISH " The Creature is formidable but there is a way of resisting it..(it) is vulnerable through the head"

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