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Renaissance style musical angel with tambourineRenaissance style musical angel playing a tambourine, in the style of Fra Angelico. Date: circa 1910
The Hon. Lois Sturt paints DaciaSociety girl turned painter, the Hon. Lois Sturt shown in the studio painting the portrait of the well known dancer and beauty, Dacia, who had starred in Chu Chin Chow
Sea view Villa Gallotti, Posillipo Naples ItalyThe beautiful sea view from the terrace of Villa Gallotti. It is a noble villa located on the promontory of Posillipo. Date: 1904
Pergola at the Villa San Michele above Anacapri, ItalyPergola at the Villa San Michele above Anacapri, Isle of Capri, Italy. The summer villa of Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe. Built on the site of an old Roman dwelling. Date: 1904
Teddy Tinling tennis dress, 1958A high-waisted white pique dress decorated with drawn tread work with a broderie anglaise underslip by Teddy Tinling, Englands leading desiger of functional but fashion-conscious tennis clothes
Courtyard of San Geronimo, Venice, Italy. Date: 1927
The Piazza at Pietra Santa, near Viareggio, Italy. Showing the Cathedral and ancient walls - springtime. Date: 1905
Manchester Ragged and Industrial Schools, Ardwick GreenA view of the Ragged and Certified Industrial Schools at Ardwick Green, Manchester Date: 1860s
St Anthonys Home for Roman Catholic Boys, Feltham, MiddlesToddlers at St Anthonys Home for Roman Catholic Boys, Feltham, Middlesex. Date: early 1900s
St Marys Home for Girls, Tudhoe, County Durham, also known as Tudhoe Orphanage. Date: circa 1906
St Annes Laundry Home, Yiewsley, MiddlesexSt Annes Laundry Home, Yiewsley, was aimed at the care of girls who were morally weak and unfit for service. Date: circa 1913
Royal Albert Orphanage, WorcesterThe frontage of the Royal Albert Orphanage, Worcester. A man and woman, presumably the superintendent and matron, stand at the entrance. Date: early 1900s
Picking flowers, Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, HA group of physically disabled children, one in a wheelchair, another with crutches, pick flowers in the Queen Alexandra Wood at the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire
Tadcaster Union Workhouse, West YorkshireTadcaster Union Workhouse, later The Beeches old peoples home. Date: circa 1930s
Aberlour Orphanage, Charlestown of Aberlour, MorayshireEast wing of the Aberlour Orphanage, Charlestown of Aberlour, Morayshire. It was one of Scotlands largest childrens homes. Date: 1930s
Wigan Union workhouse, LancashireGeneral view of Wigan Union workhouse. Tram line runs past front. Date: circa 1906
Greenwich Union Cottage Homes, Lamorbey, Sidcup, KentEntrance to The Hollies - the Greenwich & Deptford Unions cottage homes at Lamorbey, near Sidcup, Kent, housing pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: circa 1913
Ongar Union Workhouse, Stanford Rivers, EssexGeneral view of Ongar Union Workhouse, Stanford Rivers. Date: early 1900s
Shepton Mallet Workhouse, SomersetGeneral view of Shepton Mallet Union Workhouse, Somerset, erected 1836 and designed by Jesse Gane. Date: early 1900s
Risbridge Union Workhouse, Kedington, SuffolkA view of the Risbridge Union Workhouse, Kedington. It was designed by J. F. Clark, of Newmarket. Date: early 1900s
Sir Walter and Lady de Frece (Vesta Tilley)Sir Abraham Walter de Frece (7 October 1870 7 January 1935) British theatre impresario, and later Conservative Party politician
Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Clementine ChurchillCover of the Illustrated London News showing Sir Winston Churchill and his wife, Lady Clementine Churchill, hand in hand sitting on a sofa
Balfours defeat and Churchills victoryThe extraordinary turn of the tide at Manchester: Arthur Balfour was beaten in the East Division by Mr T. G. Horridge who had a majority of 1980
Winston Churchill with Kaiser Wilhelm IIPhotograph entitled Deadly Enemies Now! showing Winston Churchill at German army manoeuvres with the Kaiser, prior to the outbreak of World War One. Date: c. 1910
Luchows Famous Restaurant, New York City, USALuchows Famous Restaurant, East 14th Street, New York City, USA, decorated with many flags. Date: circa 1920
Sa Marraine by Leo FontanA fashionably dressed young woman with a floral bonnet style hat, white fox fur stole and large hat box pauses for a moment to read a letter or perhaps shopping receipt. Date: 1919
Who People Are Dating - Suzy Kendall and Dudley MooreThe English actor, comedian, jazz pianist and composer, Dudley Stuart John Moore (19 April 1935 27 March 2002) with model-turned-actress Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1944)
What People Are Wearing - Linda KeithThe English model Linda Keith wearing a plum-coloured suede coat from Dorothee Bis in Paris with a tan-striped sweater and black trousers. Date: 1966
What People Are Wearing - Eva BartokThe Budapest-born actress Eva Bartok (1927 - 1998) wearing a red and gold dress which she designed herself and had made up in Indian sari material. Date: 1966
Cathy McGowan (b. 1943), journalist and TV presenter, finding fame and iconic style status as the presenter of the cult pop programme Ready Steady Go!
The co-proprietor of Blooms kosher restaurantMrs Bloom, co-proprietor with her husband of Londons iconic kosher restaurant. All around her, the bright, cheery, noisy and busy atmosphere which you were likely to find there in the 1960s
Shredded Wheat factory, Niagara Falls, New York State, USAShredded Wheat factory (opened 1901), Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1910
Whirlpool Bar, Niagara Falls, New York State, USAWhirlpool Bar and Restaurant, Main Street, Niagara Falls, New York State, USA, with views of the Falls through the window. Date: circa 1940
Harold Macmillan at the barbersCandid photograph of Harold Macmillan at Toppers Barbers Shop in Bond Street. Date: 1966
Bunny girls, Patty Farrar (left) and Sally Braine (right) from the Playboy Club in London pose in their work uniforms for London Life magazine
Jacquard Looms in operation for figured weavingA row of Jacquard Looms in operation for figured weaving Date: circa 1830s
Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The
Mrs Raymond Asquith (Katherine Horner)Portrait of Mrs Raymond Asquith, formerly Miss Katherine Horner, wife of the eldest son of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. She was the younger daughter of Sir John Horner of Mells Park
Sybil Zelker of Polly Peck shopping at WoollandsSybil Zelker, designer of the fashion brand Polly Peck, finding sale bargains at Woollands 21 Shop with her daughter Elizabeth
Suzy Menkes - editor of Cambridge Varsity magazineSuzy Menkes (born 1943), British journalist and lead fashion writer for the International Herald Tribune since 1988. Pictured here at the age of 22 as a third-year student at Newnham College
TwiggyLesley Hornby, otherwise known as Twiggy pictured in the Chelsea Antique Market in a raccoon coat she bought in Portobello Road. Date: 1966
Charlotte Rampling in Jean VaronActress Charlotte Rampling (born 1946) pictured in her Avengers dress by Jean Varon (designed by British designer John Bates), black and white crepe
Evening wrap and evening dress, 1919A straight, slim and elegant evening wrap on the left in emerald green velvet, and is trimmed with fur and brocade. Simplicity and originality combine in this evening dress of black satin
Peggy MoffittMargaret Anne " Peggy" Moffitt (born May 14, 1940)former American model and actress. During the 1960s, she was muse for fashion designer Rudi Gernreich
Five humanised cats on a Christmas card -- three of them are ill in bed, and the doctor cat asks one to: Show your tongue! Date: circa 1890s
Wartime fashion section, Britannia and Eve, 1940Fashion editorial for the forthcoming Spring embellished by four drawings of women wearing daytime jacket dresses designed by famous designers
Cat and dog in bed on a Christmas card -- Darby and Joan. Date: circa 1890s
Diana Rigg wearing SWAPL jacket, Roter advertisementActress Diana Rigg in an advertisement for South West African Persian Lamb wearing a jacket in said fabric. Left hand side shows an advertisement for Roter