Images Dated 20th March 2007

RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard ocean liner, 20th century. Built by John Brown & Co at Clydebank, the Queen Elizabeth was the worlds largest ocean liner when she was launched in 1938

The Small Physicist and The Vain Physicist, 1887. Artist: Gaston Tissandier
The Small Physicist and The Vain Physicist, 1887. Published in History of Balloons by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887

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Detail of painting Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), Duchess of Ferrara

SS Great Eastern, 1859. Pictured at the port of Le Havre, France

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Electric tram running through the Hernani street in San Sebastian, 1900

Electric trams running through the Alcala street in Madrid, 1910

Electric Tram with trailer load circulating through the Plaza of the Constitution of Zaragoza (Aragon), 1910

View of the Puerta del Sol de Vigo (Galicia), where trams and cabs are circulating, 1910

Whale captured in the Thames, Grays, Essex, 19th century

Swearing in members of the new parliament, 19th century

Socialist leaders at Bow Street police court following riots in the west-end of London, 19th century

The village blacksmith

Ignatius of Loyola, Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Artist: W Holl
Ignatius of Loyola, Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Inigo Lopez de Loyola (1491-1556) founded the Society of Jesus together with 6 others at St Marys Church, Montmartre, Paris, in 1534

Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of King Charles II of England, (19th century)

Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of King Charles II of England, (19th century)

Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of King Charles II of England, (1821)

King James II at the Abbey of La Trappe, France. After he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, James II went into exile in France, where he was welcomed by Louis XIV

James II taking leave of Louis XIV of France, 1689. After he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, James II went into exile in France, where he was welcomed by Louis XIV

Reception of James II in Dublin, 1689. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the parliaments of England and Scotland recognised William III and Mary as King and Queen

Earl Warenne justifying the title to his estates. Artist: J Rogers
Earl Warenne justifying the title to his estates

Balliol surrendering his crown to Edward I of England, 1296. Artist: J Rogers
Balliol surrendering his crown to Edward I of England, 1296

Marguerite of France, Queen of King Edward I of England. Artist: B Eyles
Marguerite of France, Queen of King Edward I of England. Marguerite of France (1282-1317) was the second wife of Edward I. They were married in 1299

Queen Eleanor intercedes for John. A print from The Boys Own Paper

King Edward I of England at Berwick, 1296. During his campaign against John Balliol, King of the Scots, Edward I brutally sacked Berwick in 1296, massacring most of the population

Edward I presenting his infant son to the Welsh, 1284. Edward (1239-1307) reigned from 1272 to 1307, ascending the throne of England after the death of his father, Henry III

Joanna of Navarre, Queen of King Henry IV of England. Henry IV married Joanna of Navarre (c1370-1437), his second wife, in 1403. Henrys first wife, Mary de Bohun, had died in 1394

Frances Trollope, 19th century English novelist

Henry IV reproving Prince Henry, (19th century). Artist: J Rogers
Henry IV reproving Prince Henry, (19th century). Henry Bolingbroke (1367-1413) became king in 1399 when he led a baronial revolt that overthrew the rule of Richard II

French warship, l Ocean, 1868

French frigate, l Armide, 1867

American transatlantic steamship, Arago, 1856. Pictured at the port of Le Havre, France

Frigate, 19th century. Artist: L Sabatier & Lauvergne
Frigate, 19th century. First in a line of transatlantic boats used by the French in 1847

General view of Saint Malo, Brittany, France, 20th Century. Spectators watching a yacht race

Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, 20th century

Ocean liner RMS Lusitania, 20th century. Launched in 1906, the Lusitania was built for the Cunard Steamship Line by John Brown & Co on the Clyde

Ocean liner RMS Mauretania, 20th century. The Mauretania was built for the Cunard Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend on the Tyne

Naval battle between the Austrian and Italian fleets, 1866, (19th Century). The Battle of Lissa, fought in the Adriatic on 20 July 1866 during the Third Italian War of Independence

Ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 20th century.The Aquitania was built by John Brown and Company on the Clyde for the Cunard Line

HMS Bulwark, British battleship, c1899-1914. A Royal Navy battleship of the London class, HMS Bulwark was captained in 1908 by Robert Falcon Scott

German battleship Rheinland, c1910-1918. Built by Vulcan of Stettin between 1907 and 1910, the Rheinland was one of the German Navys first dreadnoughts

Sailor smoking a pipe and drinking rum, 1900. From a private collection

Abraham Duquesne, 17th century French admiral, 19th Century. Duquesne (1608-1690) at the Battle of Messina in 1676, where he defeated a combined Dutch and Spanish fleet

Warships, 18th century

The Frightening French Armour, 19th century. From the Bernard Crochet Archive

Bretagne French dreadnought of 25, 000 Tons, c1915-1940. Built at Brest between 1912 and 1915, the Bretagne served in the Mediterranean in both world wars

HMS Lord Nelson, c1908-1920. HMS Lord Nelson was a battleship of the Royal Navy built between 1906 and 1908. She was flagship of the Channel Fleet in 1914 and saw service in the Dardanelles in 1915

Aerial Navigation, c1910

A balloon on a roof, 1894. Firemen trying to come to the aid of a balloonist who has crash landed on a roof. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1894

Archdeacon aeroplane, 1904. Ernest Archdeacon was a French lawyer of Irish descent who was also a pioneer aviator

On the Open Sea, 1901. A balloon on the bow of a ship. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1901

Death of an aeronaut over Beuzeville, France, 1899. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1899

Santos-Dumonts airship departing from Trouville, France, 1905. Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian pioneer aviator

A soldier carried aloft by a Balloon, 1901. Published illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1901

A Balloon struck by lightning near Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1891. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1891

The Man in the Moon, 1648 (1887). Artist: Gaston Tissandier
The Man in the Moon, 1648, (1887). Frontispiece of a novel of Gonzales, 1648, showing a man flying by means of a contraption pulled by birds

Satirical engraving on the fire of the balloon of Miolan and Janinet 1784 (1887). French abbots Miolan and Janinet were ridiculed for their failed balloon ascent from the Jardin de Luxembourg

The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1887). Artist: Gaston Tissandier
The Parachute of Fauste Veranzio, 1617, (1887). The inventor Fauste Veranzio (Faust Vrancic) deveolped a parachute after studying Leonardo da Vincis sketches of one

Caricature on the direction of the Aerostat, 1887. Artist: Gaston Tissandier
Caricature on the direction of the Aerostat, 1887. Published in History of Balloons by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887

Reception of the Robert Brothers by the Prince of Ghistelles in 1784, (1887)

Aerostat, 1887. Artist: Gaston Tissandier
Aerostat, 1887. A man on horseback on a platform being carried by a balloon. Published in History of Balloons by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887

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