RM2WR1FEJ–An Electric Tram, c1936. Until 1935, there had been a large and comprehensive network of tram systems in English towns and cities.
RMWXRJA7–Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), c1924. Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947), British Conservative statesman. Baldwin served as prime minister on three occasions.
RMW60BEH–Elizabethan Judges in their robes, c16th century. Judges at the time of Elizabeth I.
RMW60BW8–Sir Christopher Wren's original model for St Paul's Cathedral. By Arthur Robertson. St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. The present cathedral, dates from the late 17th century and was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren.
RMRPRTTR–'Shallow trench', fighting in the early days of the war, near Ypres, c1914. A German advance against British trenches, held by the King's Liverpool Regiment. Shallow trench, fighting in the early days of the war, near Ypres. A German advance against British trenches, held by the King's Liverpool Regiment.
RM2X0Y7MY–The Battle of Naseby, 1727. By Charles Dupuis (1685-1742), after Charles Parrocel (1688-1752). The Battle of Naseby took place on 14th June 1645, during the First English Civil War. The Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, were victorious ovder the main Royalist army under Charles I and Prince Rupert.
RM2X0Y7R3–'The Siege of Colchester by the Lord Fairfax as it was with the Line & Outworks', 1648. By W. Keymer. The Siege of Colchester occurred in the 1648, during the Second English Civil War. Colchester found itself under siege when the Royalist army was attacked by the Parliamentary force of Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671). The Parliamentarians' initial attack forced the Royalist army to retreat behind the town's walls. Despite the privations of the siege, the Royalists resisted for eleven weeks and only surrendered following the defeat of the Royalist army at the Battle of Preston.
RM2X0Y7R7–A 17th century cannon, from the frontispiece to John Roberts's 'The Compleat Canonier', 1652. The Compleat Canonier gives a description of the Gunner's art during the period of the English Civil War.
RM2WR1FEN–Michael Faraday (1791-1867). After John Watkins (1823-1874). Faraday was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
RM2X0Y81C–Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686), 1656. By Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677). Dugdale was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject. From the frontispiece of 'The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated', 1656.
RM2PE5Y12–A hydraulic power press, c1933. A hydraulic press is a machine press which uses a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force. It uses the hydraulic equivalent of a mechanical lever. It is also known as a Bramah press after its English inventor, Joseph Bramah (1748-1814).
RM2M3PAMT–St Edward's Crown. St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Named after Saint Edward the Confessor (c1003-1066), versions of it have traditionally been used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century. The original crown was a holy relic kept at Westminster Abbey, Edward's burial place, until the regalia were either sold or melted down when Parliament abolished the monarchy in 1649, during the English Civil War. The current St Edward's Crown was made for Charles II in 1661.
RM2NYM0N2–'Long Live the Queen', 1953. An illustration of Saint Edward's Crown, from the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022). St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Named after Saint Edward the Confessor (c1003-1066), versions of it have traditionally been used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century. The original crown was a holy relic kept at Westminster Abbey, Edward's burial place, until the regalia were either sold or melted down when Parliament abolished the monarchy in 1649.
RM2M41NG7–St Edward's Crown. St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Named after Saint Edward the Confessor (c1003-1066), versions of it have traditionally been used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century. The original crown was a holy relic kept at Westminster Abbey, Edward's burial place, until the regalia were either sold or melted down when Parliament abolished the monarchy in 1649, during the English Civil War. The current St Edward's Crown was made for Charles II in 1661.
RM2NYM0W8–An illustration of Saint Edward's Crown, 1953. An illustration from the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022). St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Named after Saint Edward the Confessor (c1003-1066), versions of it have traditionally been used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century. The original crown was a holy relic kept at Westminster Abbey, Edward's burial place, until the regalia were either sold or melted down when Parliament abolished the monarchy in 1649.
RM2M3PB5X–Wallis Simpson, c1936. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986), American socialite and wife of the former King Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication.
RMWXRJ7X–Captain E J Smith of the ship 'Titanic', 1911. Edward John Smith (1850-1912) was a British naval officer. He served as master of serveral White Star Line vessels. He was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and died when the ship sank on its maiden voyage.
RMTA0WC1–Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and the Prince Consort (1819-1861), 1860. By Lytton Strachey, Chatto & Windus, London. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and the Prince Consort (1819-1861), pictured here the year before the Prince Consort died from typhoid fever. Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
RMTA0WC3–Queen Victoria (1819-1901), 1863. By Lytton Strachey, Chatto & Windus, London. Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20th June 1837 until her death. Queen Victoria is pictured here wearing the black clothes of mourning, that she wore following Prince Albert the Prince Consort's death until her own death in 1901.
RMWXRJ9X–The Wembley Cup Final, 1923. Crowds overflowed on to the field, before the match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham. The 1923 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28th April 1923. The final was preceded by chaotic scenes as enormous crowds surged into the stadium. The crowd is estimated to have been as large as 300,000. Bolton Wonderers won the match 2 - 0.
RMRPRTX0–Grahame-White, Britain's pioneer airman. Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959), English pioneer of aviation,
RM2X0Y837–James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), 1863. By Samuel Laurence (1812-1884). Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine.
RM2X0Y836–Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892), 1889. By Hubert Vos (1855-1935). Freeman was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician.
RM2X0Y815–Sir Walter Raleigh (c1552-1618), 19th century. By Herbert Luther Smith (1809-1870). Raleigh was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer.
RM2M705CD–Prince Albert in Royal Air Force uniform, c1918. The future King George VI (1895-1952) was the first member of the British royal family to be certified as a fully qualified pilot.
RM2M7056T–The future King George VI (1895-1952), c1898. King George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11th December 1936 until his death in 1952.
RM2M3PBC8–The Coronation Chair, c1937. Known historically as St Edward's Chair or King Edward's Chair, is the chair on which British monarchs sit when they are invested with regalia and crowned at their coronations. It was commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I (1239-1307) to contain the the Stone of Scone.
RMWXRJBA–James Henry Thomas (1874-1949), campaigning during the 1935 United Kingdom general election which was held on Thursday 14th November 1935. James Henry Thomas (1874-1949), AKA Jimmy Thomas, British trade unionist and Labour politician.
RMRPRTW1–Scene in a war time munition factory. Munitionettes were British women employed in munitions factories during the time of the First World War. National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, 1917.
RM2WR1FP2–William Morris, c1900. By Cosmo Rowe (1877-1952). After a photograph by Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933). Morris was an English textile designer, artist and writer. The prominent socialist was closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement.
RM2M705GG–The Duke of York (1895-1952) at the Trooping the Colour ceremony, 4th June, 1932. The future King George VI at the 1932 ceremony. Trooping the Colour is a ceremony performed every year in London by regiments of the British Army. Since 1748 it has also marked the official birthday of the British sovereign.
RM2X0Y817–Bede (672/3-735), 1584. Bede, also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable, was an English monk, author and scholar. Engraving from 'Les Vrais Pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres' 1584, by André Thevet (1516-1590).
RM2M705PE–Queen Mary with the Duke and Duchess of York at Balmoral, Scotland, 1924. Queen Mary (1867-1953) with the future King George VI (1895-1952) and Queen Elizabeth (1900-2002). Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is a residence of the British royal family.
RMRPRTW0–Women at work during the First World War, July 1917. Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, July 1917. 'Crane girls' at work at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell. Munitionettes were British women employed in munitions factories during the time of the First World War.
RM2WR1FEF–James Prescott Joule (1818-1889), c1884. James Prescott Joule, English physicist, mathematician and brewer. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.
RMTAACDC–Alfred the Great Rebuilding the Walls of London. King Alfred the Great (849-899) reinstating the Roman walls around London. Alfred the Great reestablished English control of London in 886, renewing its fortifications. The old Roman walls were repaired and the defensive ditch was recut, the old Roman city becaming the main site of population.
RMWXRJBR–The building of the RMS Queen Mary, 1934. The RMS Queen Mary, British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard-White Star Line. Here we see her at the shipbuilders John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
RM2WR1FB0–A view of St. Paul's Cathedral from Paul's Cross, c1928. St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. The present cathedral, dates from the late 17th century and was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren.
RMWXRJ97–British troops guarding a wall during the Irish War of Independence also know as the Anglo-Irish War, 1920. The Irish War of Independence (Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces.
RM2X0Y7RH–The Morning of Sedgemoor, 1905. By Edgar Bundy (1862-1922). The Battle of Sedgemoor was the last and decisive engagement between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth during the Monmouth rebellion, fought 6th July 1685. The battle took place at Westonzoyland near Bridgwater in Somerset, England, resulting in a victory for the English army.
RM2M41NH6–Lily Font. The Lily Font is a large silver-gilt baptismal font used at the baptismal services of members of the British royal family. The font was commissioned by Queen Victoria (1819-1901), from the silversmiths Edward Barnard and Sons in 1840, for the baptism of her first child, Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901), on 10th February 1841.
RM2PE60BC–The White Star liner RMS Olympic in the floating dry dock, Southampton, England, c1924. RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic.
RMWXRJ7N–Suffragettes' campaign, c1913. A suffragette was a member of a militant women's organisations in the early 20th century who, under the banner 'Votes for Women', fought for the right for women to vote in public elections, known as women's suffrage. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
RM2X0Y833–The Burghers of Calais. 18th century print. Queen Philippa interceding for the Burghers of Calais. Philippa of Hainault (1310 (or 1315)-1369), Queen Consort to Edward III (1312-1377), persuades him to spare the lives of the leaders of Calais at the end of the English siege of the city in 1347, during the Hundred Years War. 18th century print, from Darton's Children's Picture Series.
RM2WR1FAP–Lenthall kneels to Charles during the attempted arrest of the Five Members, 4th January, 1642. By Charles West Cope (1811-1890). The Five Members were Members of Parliament whom King Charles I attempted to arrest on 4th January, 1642. King Charles I entered the English House of Commons, accompanied by armed soldiers, during a sitting of the Long Parliament.
RM2M3PAYA–Newspaper posters reporting on the impending constitutional crisis, 3rd December 1936. In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second. The marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth.
RM2M3PB0C–Daily Express front page, December 8th, 1936. Covering a statement made by Wallis Simpson from Cannes, France. In early December 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second. The marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth.
RM2B6D5TE–St John the Evangelist: from the Lindisfarne Gospels, c720. By Eadfrith of Lindisfarne (d721). The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript gospel book produced in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, England. The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art and combines Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements. London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV.
RM2KE4JK8–The main assembly line at the Cowley Factory, c1935. William Morris (1877-1963) opened a factory at the former Oxford Military College at Cowley, Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1913. Morris Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris's WRM Motors Limited. By 1926 its production represented 42 per cent of British car manufacture.
RMRPRTTY–A queue outside the Central London Recruiting Depot at New Scotland Yard in August 1914. The response to Lord Kitchener's appeal. At the beginning of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710,000 men including reserves, of which around 80,000 were regular troops. By the end of the First World War almost 1 in 4 of the total male population of the United Kingdom had joined up, over five million men.
RMRPRTWX–The Irish Peace Delegation, Grosvenor Hotel, London, 1921. After 18 months of guerrilla war, both the British government and the leaders of the IRA sought to bring the conflict to an end. A Truce was agreed in July 1921, followed by negotiations towards an Anglo-Irish Treaty. Sitting-Eamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith. Standing, left to right-Count George Noble Plunkett, Erskine Childers, Laurence O'Neill, Dr. Farnham and Robert Barton.
RM2B6D60X–Noah's Ark from the Junius manuscript (Cædmon manuscript), 10th century. The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. It contains poetry dealing with Biblical subjects in Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England. The manuscript is made of four poems which have been given the titles Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan. For a long time, scholars believed them to be the work of Cædmon. However, this theory has been discarded due to the significant differences between the poems. MS Bodl. Junius II.
RM2X0Y81A–'The Death of Nelson', 1859-64 (detail). By Daniel Maclise (1806-1870). 'The Death of Nelson', is a wall painting in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster, London. The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. The Royal Navy led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated the French and Spanish coalition led by French Admiral Villeneuve. During the battle, Nelson was shot by a French musketeer and died.
RM2JH7R25–J. M. E. McTaggart (1866-1925), c1920. By Roger Eliot Fry (1866-1934). English idealist metaphysician. A fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was an exponent of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists. McTaggart is known for 'The Unreality of Time' (1908).
RMW60AYH–English squadron carrying troops to take possession of Dunkirk. From the 'History of Queen Anne', 1740.
RMT1HM8M–Frank Buckland (1826-1880). Engraving from the 'Illustrated London News', 1881. Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880), English surgeon, zoologist and natural historian.
RMW60BA7–Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788-1850). After John Linnell (1792-1882). Sir Robert Peel was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834-35 and 1841-46) and twice as Home Secretary (1822-27 and 1828-30).
RMTAACDF–The Danish settlement of Aldwych. Probably occupied the site of the present day Aldwych, London. The Danes assaulted Great Britain and Ireland beginning about AD 800 and began settling in England AD 865.
RMWXRJC3–Street party, Palace Road, in the East End of London, 1935. A street party to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
RMRN01KJ–Caged prisoners in a transport ship on the way to Australia, 19th century. Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 162,000 convicts were transported from Britain to various penal colonies in Australia.
RMRPRTTM–Herbert H Asquith, Prime Minister, July, 1914. By Walton Adams (1842-1934). Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
RM2T1DH7K–The Hay Cart, 1779. Francis Wheatley (1747-1801). This painting shows a group of 18th century farm labourers harvesting hay. It is now housed at Lancaster House, London.
RMT1HR77–Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), c1802. After Henry Edridge (1768-1821). Nelson was most noted for his leadership and strategic skills as well as his unconventional tactics, notably during the Napoleonic Wars. He was wounded several times in combat, losing one arm and the sight in one eye. Of his victories the most famous is the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was shot and killed.
RMTAACGM–The front page of the London Post newspaper, 1646. The London Post is an example of early journalism, of which the 17th century saw a large expansion.
RMW60AA6–A Royal Picnic, 1575. Queen Elizabeth I picnics with a royal hunting party. Woodcut from Turbervile's Booke of Hunting by George Turberville (c1540-c1597), 1575.
RM2B6D79J–Court of King's Bench, c1460. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century the Court of King's Bench (or Court of Queen's Bench during the reign of a female monarch), formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was an English court of common law in the English legal system. This illuminated manuscript c1460 is the earliest known depiction of the English court.
RMT6X5M7–Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), c1656. After Samuel Cooper (1609-1672). English military and political leader. Cromwell served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland 'and of the dominions thereto belonging' from 1653 until his death.
RMTAACHD–Cromwell at Marston Moor. By Ernest Crofts (1847-1911). Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Marston Moor with his regiment of Ironsides. The battle was fought on 2nd July 1644, during the First English Civil War of 1642–1646.
RMRKBY4K–An English Village, 1821.
RMRX073D–Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400), 17th century, oil on panel. Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400), English poet and author.
RMRX074C–John Donne (1573-1631), 1616. By Isaac Oliver (c1565-1617). John Donne (1572-1631), English poet and Church of England cleric.
RM2B6D4A0–Title page of John Lyly's 'Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit'. First edition, 1579. John Lyly (c1553-1606), English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier. Lyly was best known during his lifetime for his books Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580)
RMT1HKT8–William Yarrell (1784-1856). Engraving from Yarrell's ' A History of British Fishes', 1859. Yarrell was an English zoologist, ornithologist, writer and naturalist.
RMTAACFH–Title page of the second folio edition of John Foxe's 'Actes and Monuments' or the 'Book of Martyrs', 1570. The 'Actes and Monuments', popularly known as Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', is a work of Christian history and martyrology by John Foxe (c1516-1587). First published in English in 1563 by John Day (c1522-1584).
RM2B6D49W–The life of William Cobbett - written by himself. No 2' (William Cobbett), 1809. By James Gillray (1756-1815). William Cobbett (1763-1835), English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament, including abolishing 'rotten boroughs', would ease the poverty of farm labourers.
RMTAACFC–Title page to the first edition of the Book of Common Prayer, 1549. Original in the British Museum. Here pictured the original Book of Common Prayer, published in the reign of Edward VI, it was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome.
RM2JRTG80–Sir Clifford Allbutt, c1920. By Sir William Orpen (1878-1931). Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925), English physician, commissioner for lunacy in England and Wales 1889-1892, president of the British Medical Association 1920 and inventor of the clinical thermometer.
RMTAACEW–Offer of the Kingship to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, at Baynard's Castle, 26th June 1483. By Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze (1866-1939). Richard III (1452-1485) was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last Plantagenet king.
RM2JK1FY1–Terra Nova, Captive in Heavy Pack, 1910. By Herbert Ponting (1870-1935). The Terra Nova Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition), was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), who wanted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. He and four others attained the pole on 17th January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) had preceded them. Scott's party of five died on the return journey from the pole.
RMWXRJ0J–The Tower Bridge, London, England, c1925. By Horace Mann Livens (1862-1936). Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894.
RMRF5C98–Trotty Veck's Dinner, c1890s. By Frances Brundage (1854-1937). 'The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In', is a short novel by Charles Dickens, written and published in 1844.
RMRF5CNA–Little Nell and her Grandfather, c1890s. By Frances Brundage (1854-1937). The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841. Upon reading the novel Queen Victoria said she found the book 'very interesting and cleverly written'.
RMTAACCJ–Scene during the cotton famine in Lancashire', 1862. Plate from The Illustrated London News, November 29th, 1863. The cotton famine was a depression in the textile industry in the North West of England brought about by the interruption of imports of cotton from America caused by the American Civil War. This engraving depicts a scene at the Manchester and Salford Provident Society, who issued provision tickets to help relieve the prevalent distress.
RMRX076T–Robert Bridges (1844-1930). By Charles Wellington Furse (1868-1904). Bridges was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.
RMTA0WAM–Design for a bookcase, 1805. By Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). This design is taken from Sheraton's 1805 book 'The Cabinet-Makers, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia'.
RM2B6D4HC–Coursing on Epsom Racecourse, c1800. After John Nost Sartorius (1755-1828). Hare coursing is the pursuit of hares with greyhounds and other sighthounds, which chase the hare by sight, not by scent.
RMT6X7GJ–The Blue Boy, c1770. By Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, this might be a portrait of Jonathan Buttle (1752-1805), the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this has never been proven.
RMW60BPG–A Dutch broadside satirising Richard Cromwell, c1659. Richard Cromwell (centre) is shown as a cooper wearing a lion's skin, with copper's tools at his feet, destroying with a hammer a barrel from which bespectacled owls carrying burning candles escape. On the left a figure of Pickleherring, the clown, raising his arms; in the background two images, on the left showing Aesop's fable 'The Frogs and King Stork', on the right a state proclamation taking place in a courtyard with the arms of the Commonwealth above an arch.
RM2KE4JFN–Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, c1860. Red House is a Arts and Crafts building located in Bexleyheath, south-east London, England. Co-designed in 1859 by the architect Philip Webb and the designer William Morris, it was created to serve as a family home for Morris. Construction was completed in 1860.
RM2PE60J3–The main roller floor at Millennium Mills, Royal Victoria Docks, London, c1933. The original Millennium Mills building was designed and built in 1905 by William Vernon & Sons as a flour mill. Millennium Mills was rebuilt as a 10-storey concrete art deco building in 1933.
RM2PE609H–A Bessemer Converter being blown, c1933. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer (1813-1898). Bessemer took out a patent on the process in 1855.
RM2M3PBME–The Gold State Coach passing under Admiralty Arch during the coronation procession of His Majesty King George VI (1895-1952), 1937. George VI's coronation took place on 12th May 1937 at Westminster Abbey, the date previously intended for his brother Edward VIII's coronation.
RM2PE5YJE–An electric runway being used to move the wheels of a steam locomotive, c1933.
RM2PE5Y6W–Carding machines at the factory of John Edward Crowther Ltd., Marsden, West Yorkshire, c1933. Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing.
RM2PE5YBC–The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London, c1933. A crucible of molten silver is lifted out of the furnace and carried to the machine that will stir the liquid metal before it is poured into moulds.
RM2PE5Y3T–Machine weaving at the Horrockses, Crewdson & Co. factory, c1933. Horrockses, Crewdson & Co. was a textile company based in Preston, Lancashire.
RM2PE5YBJ–The Royal Mint, Tower Hill, London, c1933. A worker oversees the machine that punches the blank discs that will become coins.
RM2PE604Y–Packing cigarettes at the W.D. & H.O. Wills factory, c1933. The company was founded in 1786, and went by various names before 1830 when it became 'W.D. & H.O. Wills'.
RM2PE5YXK–The Metal Case Shop of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, c1933. The machine shop in which cartridge cylinders were made.
RM2PE606H–Packing cigarettes at the W.D. & H.O. Wills factory, c1933. The company was founded in 1786, and went by various names before 1830 when it became 'W.D. & H.O. Wills'.
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