Images Dated 20th February 2017

Reform Bill - Disraeli as friend of the working man

The new Friend of the Working Man or the Party who may bring in a Reform Bill next Session after all. Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Conservative party caricatured as a friend who would enfranchise many more working men. Date: 1866

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Young woman on a comic postcard

Young woman on a comic postcard -- I cannot sing the old songs, I cannot sing the new, But if some young man would marry me, I prove what I could do. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans Picture Library / John Maclellan

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Britains Royal Naval Air Service, aircraft and airmen

Britain's Royal Naval Air Service, aircraft and airmen -- Lieutenant Longmore RN, Flight Commander Samson RN, Lieutenants Grey RN, with a seaplane on the water behind them, and an airship and other aircraft above. Date: circa 1914

© Mary Evans Picture Library/John Maclellan

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