Images Dated 3rd March 2006 (page 2)

Thomas Wright, English prison philanthropist, 1875. Wright (1789-1875) worked on the reclamation of discharged prisoners. From Home Words. ( London, 1875)

John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter, c1880
John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter, c1870. Millais (1829-1896) was a founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. After 1870 he painted mainly portraits and landscapes

St Isidore the Labourer. St Isidore (c1070-1130), Spanish Patron Saint of Madrid

Henry Edward Manning, English Roman Catholic prelate, c1880. After graduating from Oxford, Manning (1809-1892) was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1840 was appointed archdeacon of Chichester

Marie Edme Patrice Maurice MacMahon, Duc de Magenta, French soldier and statesman, c1880. Of Irish descent, MacMahon (1808-1893)

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig and Liberal politician, c1878
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig and Liberal politician, c1870. Russell (1792-1878) was known as Lord John Russell until 1861 when he was created Earl

Richard Cobden, British politician, economist and Lancashire calico manufacturer, c1870. Described as the Apostle of Free Trade

George Wishart, 16th century Scottish reformer and martyr, mid 19th century. Wishart (c1513-1546) on his way to trial before Archbishop Beaton, giving his purse to a beggar

Benefits of university education for women, 1887. Artist: George du Maurier
Benefits of university education for women, 1887. A young man in a railway carriage offers a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, some light reading for the journey

Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of Turkey from 1861, 1869. Artist: James Tissot
Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of Turkey from 1861, 1869. At first liberal and westernising, Abd-ul-Aziz (1830-1876) became autocratic

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of USA, 1901. Artist: George Gardner Rockwood
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of USA, 1901. Photographic portrait published in September 1901 when Roosevelt (1858-1919) became President after the assassination of William McKinley

To the Rescue, war in the Sudan, 1885. British gunboats engaging the enemy on the way up the Nile to relieve General Gordon, besieged by the Mahdi at Khartoum

A street in Strasbourg during the siege and bombardment, Franco-Prussian War, 1870. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 15 October 1870)

Strasbourg Cathedral during the final bombardment of the city, Franco-Prussian War, 1870. After its fall to the Prussians

Prussian infantry at the charge, Franco-Prussian War, 1870. From The Graphic. (London, 3 September 1870)

Dog and cat meat butcher in Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1871. During the war Paris was under siege from September 1870 to late January 1871

French prisoner of war camp at Wahn, near Cologne, Franco-Prussian War, 1870. Over 280, 000 French troops were captured by the Germans during the conflict

Once More into the Sun, Franco-Prussian War, 1870. Wounded German officers in the Germany military hospital at Versailles being given fresh air and sunshine to aid their recovery

A balloon from Paris passing over Versailles, Franco-Prussian War, 1870 (1871). During the war Paris was under siege from September 1870 to January 1871

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, being proclaimed first Emperor of Germany, 1871. After the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, as a gesture of further humiliation of the French

Germaine de Stael, French writer, novelist and political propagandist born in Paris, 1843. Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) was the only child of Jacques Necker, French statesman and financier

Nitroglycerin processing plant, explosives factory, Val Bormida, near Cengio, Italy, 1888
Nitroglycerin processing plant, explosives factory, Val Bormida, near Cengio, north-west Italy, 1888. Nitroglycerin was mixed with Kieselghur (a diatomaceous earth) to produce Dynamite

Women packing dynamite cartridges, 1888. Explosives factory at Val Bormida, near Cengio, north-west Italy. Nitroglycerin was mixed with Kieselghur (a diatomaceous earth) to produce Dynamite

Spectroscope, 1872. Instrument of the type developed by Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887) during the 1850s

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. The space capsule Columbiad orbiting close to the Moon. From De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) by Jules Verne

John Byrom, 18th century English writer and poet born in Manchester, 1821
John Byrom, English writer and poet born in Manchester, 1821. Byrom (1692-1763) invented a system of shorthand. Frontispiece of Introduction to Byroms Short-Hand by Molyneux. (London, 1821)

Ferney near Geneva, Switzerland, 1786. The chateau where Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer and embodiment of the Enlightenment, settled after 1758, viewed from the garden

Fanny (Frances) Burney, Madame D Arblay, English novelist, 1843. Daughter of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney, Fanny Burney (1752-1840) married General d Arblay, a French refugee, in 1793

Thomas Gray, English poet, late 18th century. A classical scholar and professor of history at Cambridge University, Gray (1716-1771)

Charles Lamb, English essayist, early 19th century. Lamb (1775-1834) used the pseudonym Elia. With his sister Mary he wrote Tales from Shakespeare (1807) for children

Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, British naval commander, c1860. Lyons (1790-1858) commanded the British fleet in the Black Sea during the Crimean War (1853-1856)

Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Viscount Wolseley, Irish-born British soldier, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Viscount Wolseley, Irish-born British soldier, c1890. In 1885 Wolseley (1833-1914) arrived at Khartoum too late to relieve General Gordon

Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress, c1895. Ada Rehan (1860-1916) in the breeches role of Viola in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, British soldier, c1856. A cousin of Queen Victoria, the Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904)

Robert Thomas Wilson, English soldier and military writer, 1817. Wilson (1777-1849) was dismissed from the army in 1821 for his action against the mob at the funeral of Queen Caroline

John Everett Millais, British Pre-Raphaelite painter, c1870. Millais (1829-1896) was a founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. After 1870 he painted mainly portraits and landscapes

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig and Liberal politician, c1870. Russell (1792-1878) was known as Lord John Russell until 1861 when he was created Earl

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. An emergency in the padded interior of the space capsule Columbiad as one of the astronauts loses conciousness

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. A heroes welcome for the astronauts on their return from the Moon. Cheering crowds lining the railway tracks as their train steams by

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Examining the space craft Columbiad at Goldspring Ironworks near New York

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Body of the pet dog buried in space following the space capsule in free fall to the Moon

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. The giant cannon used to launch the spacecraft Columbiad from Florida

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Map of Florida showing the positioin of the launch site of the spacecraft Columbiad

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Goldspring ironworks near New York where the materials for the great gun for launching the spacecraft Columbiad were manufactured

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Excavating and lining the pit for casting the great gun for launching the space craft Columbiad

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Tidal wave caused by the launch of the space capsule Columbiad. From De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) by Jules Verne

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Reflecting telescope on top of the Rocky Mountains which the Director of the Cambridge Observatory, Massachusetts

Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. The space capsule dwarfed by the disc of the Moon. From De la Terre a la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) by Jules Verne. (Paris, 1865)

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