Images Dated 24th January 2022

Peasants ducking for apples in a barrel, 18th century
Peasants ducking for apples in a barrel. A man pushes down the heads of two competitors. English school caricature, 18th century

The People's Palace
Interior of People's Palace, from the Mile End, London. Date: 1895

Woman teasing a parrot with a captive beetle, 18th century
Woman teasing a parrot with a cockchafer tied to a stick, 18th century. The game of captive animals

A boy playing with a bird tied to a perch with a string. The other boy holds a book and a glove. From a painting by Peter Paul Rubens

Medieval peasants watching a cockfight, while other hold roosters, and chase hens. A woman dsitributes nuts from her apron. Cockfighting and other games. Le jeu de coques, et autres jeux

Peasants playing the game of hot hands, 17th century
Peasants and shepherds playing the game of hot hand at a picnic, 17th century. From an engraving by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella in the Four Ages of Life. Le jeu de la main chaude

French children playing a wheel of fortune, 1825. A woman vendor holds the table while the children spin the arrow. La Loterie Enfantine, apres une lithographie par Jean-Henri Marlet, Le Bon Genie

Table of latest winning lottery numbers in France, 1815. Winning numbers and prize money from Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Paris, Brusselles, Lyon. Clerks draw numbers from a wheel at the top

Scene in a lottery office, Amsterdam, 17th century
A boy draws winning tickets above, clerks write papers below. Frontispiece to Gregorio Leti's Critiques sur les lotteries, Amsterdam, 1697

King Louis XIV holding the royal lottery in 1660
King Louis XIV holding the royal lottery as part of his wedding celebrations in 1660. Courtiers sit at a square table in a large hall by candlelight. Lotterie royale

Russian peasants playing knucklebones, 19th century
Russian peasants playing a game of knucklebones, 19th century. Scene in a farmyard with well, cows, ducks and pigs. La rangette aux osselets

Children playing games with butterflies. A toddler chases an insect in a bedroom, 17th century print. Two boys chase butterflies with nets and hats, 19th century print. Les amusements des enfants

Gladstone's State Funeral in Westminster Abbey, London
The state funeral of William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898), British Prime Minister and Liberal politician, at Westminster Abbey, London. Date: 28 May 1898

Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902), British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Date: 1898

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841 - 1917), statesman and diplomat, notably in Egypt. Date: 1898

Yeoman of the Guard at Tower of London. Date: late 1890s

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