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Building a motorway in 1960s England
Here is a superb panoramic picture of one of the great infrastructure projects of the 1960s, namely the building of motorways. These astonishing feats of civil engineering can be appreciated when...
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The Battle of Britain
This evocative picture shows young pilots scrambling after receiving orders to take to the skies and defend Great Britain against the onslaught of the Luftwaffe. The subtle image depicts a moment of...
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Wreckers on the Cornish coast
This detailed and beautifully painted picture shows a gang of wreckers and smugglers in a rocky cove on the Cornish coast. The image is cleverly lit by the glowing lantern which deceptively lures the...
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs
This sombre picture depicts the six farm workers known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, being sentenced to deportation for forming a trade union in the little Dorsetshire village of Tolpuddle. The conviction...
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Jane Austen, the English novelist
This rather restrained portrait of a rather humourless Jane Austen is in fact based on a watercolour by her sister Cassandra, in which the witty and amusing novelist of the English Gentry appears to be...
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 9
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows the death of the balloonist Sophie Blanchard, 1819....
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 50
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows Holbein showing Henry VIII sketches for his Dance...
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 70
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows a fourteen-storey skyscraper in America. 14 storey...
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 77
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows the capture of Peking by the Mongols in 1215....
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The best pictures from educational trade cards, 115
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards. The first picture shows a barge on the Nile. On a barge in the Nile The...
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