Images Dated 28th February 2006

'Autographs of Eminent Persons', 19th century. Artist: Unknown

'Autographs of Eminent Persons', 19th century. Signatures of famous Britons from an encyclopaedia: Sir Ralph Abercromby, soldier; J C Adams, astronomer; Roger Ascham, scholar; W Edmonstone Aytoun, poet; Sir Samuel Baker, explorer; Sir Charles Barry, architect; Cardinal Beaton, churchman; G T Beauregard, American soldier; J P Berzelius, chemist; Sir David Brewster, scientist; Robert Boyle, philanthropist; John Bright, orator; Sir Benjamin Brodie, physician; Charlotte Brontosaurus, novelist; Lord Henry Brougham, orator; Thomas Brown, metaphysician; Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer; George Buchanan, scholar; Francis Buckland, naturalist; John Bunyan, allegorist; Samuel Butler, satirist; William Camden, antiquary; Thomas Campbell, poet

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Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1887. Artist: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1887. Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America, joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later. In 1863, he proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in the southern Confederate states and later that year restated his anti-slavery views in the Gettysburg Address. During his 1864 campaign for re-election, he embraced the abolition of slavery. He was infamously shot by actor John Wilkes Booth whilst attending the theatre in 1865

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Cardinal Beaufort, 1860. Artist: J White

Cardinal Beaufort, 1860. A 19th-century engraving after the painting 'Joan of Arc before Cardinal Beaufort'. Joan, in chains, is interrogated by Henry Beaufort, Cardinal of Winchester in Rouen Prison. Joan of Arc (c1412-1431), French patriot and martyr, was tried for heresy and sorcery and burnt at the stake in the market place at Rouen, 30 May 1431

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