Images Dated 22nd May 2018 (page 170)

Russia, c1930s
Russia. Life without tea would be well-nigh unbearable to a Russian, so the samovar has been brought from home by these Karelians to ensure that even a picnic shall not lack it

Lord Napier of Magdala, 1878. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Lord Napier of Magdala, 1878. Napier was commissioned in the Bengal engineers in 1826. He served in the first and second Sikh Wars

David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer, 1905. Garrick is seen here leaning on a bust of William Shakespeare. From The Connoisseur magazine (April 1905)

Scene from Shakespeares Hamlet, 19th century. Hamlet seeing his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle (Act 1 Scene 5). (Colorised black and white print)

Enrico Fermi, Italian-born American nuclear physicist, c1942. Fermi (1901-1954) constructed the first working nuclear reactor, in a squash court at the University of Chicago in 1942

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright, 1721, (1913). Artist: George Vertue
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright, 1721. From The Connoisseur Vol XXXV [Otto Limited, London, 1913.]. (Colorised black and white print)

Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist revolutionary and leader, c1950s(?). The son of a peasant farmer, Mao Zedong (Mao Tse Tung) (1893-1976)

Anne Boleyn (c1504-1536), second wife of Henry VIII of England, c1880. The divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon and his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn caused a political

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist, c1908
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), New Zealand atomic physicist. Won 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry. Is considered by many to have laid the groundwork for the development of modern nuclear physics

(Antoine) Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), French physicist. In 1896 Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity while investigating the phosphorescence of uranium salts

Enrico Fermi, Italian-born American nuclear physicist, c1938. Fermi (1901-1954) constructed the first working nuclear reactor, in a squash court at the University of Chicago in 1942

Charles Dickens, English novelist and journalist, 1876. Dickens (1812-1870) began his career as a journalist before becoming one of the greatest English novelists. (Colorised black and white print)

Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), 1st Baron Leighton, 1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), 1st Baron Leighton, 1890. Leighton was an English painter and sculptor whose works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matters

William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, (1820). Artist: William Finden
William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, (1820). Portrait of Shakespeare (1564-1616), widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language. (Colorised black and white print)

Scene from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream. O Bottom, thou art changed ; Snout and Quince see Bottom wearing the asss head for the first time. (Colorised black and white print)

Edward Jenner, English physician, 1837. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) practiced as a country doctor in his native Gloucestershire. He noted immunity to smallpox was given by cow-pox

Albert, King of Belgium, First World War, 1914. Artist: W&D Downey
Albert, King of Belgium, First World War, 1914. King Albert I of Belgium (1875-1934). Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914). (Colorised black and white print)

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, mid-late 19th century. Portrait of Carlyle (1795-1881). (Colorised black and white print)

Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh journalist and explorer, late 19th or early 20th century. Stanley (1841-1904) was sent by the New York Herald to look for Dr Livingstone

Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer, (1821). Artist: J Fitler
Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer, (1821). Raleigh (1554-1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585

Indian soldiers in the trenches, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Indian soldiers in the trenches, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail. (Colorised black and white print)

Siam, c1930s
Siam. Many houses, standing upon piles, are built beside the canals which from the thoroughfares of Siam. In places these turbid waterways pass from the white glare of sunlight into long green

Scotland, c1930s. Artist: Donald McLeish
Scotland. Morning gilds the hushed legions of the leaves with sunlight where Ayrshires graze under the Trossachs basking heights, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 5

Sahara, c1930s
Sahara. Dawn bursts upon the slumbering desert in a blaze of fire outlining the sharp ridges with a brush of gold, and soon the heat beats back from the ripples upon the sand in scorching waves

Sahara, c1930s
Sahara. Forlorn and boundless the desert stretches before the wanderers, rounded mounds of yellow sand broken in some places by rocky plateaux and irregular chains of hills strewn with stones

Sahara, c1930s
Sahara. While escorting his women-folk across the dreary waste, this Beduin bears a long-barrelled gun of antique design, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 5

The Chancel, Catholic Apostolic Church, Albury Park, 1904. Albury Park is a country park and Grade II listed historic country house (Albury Park Mansion) in Surrey, England

Edinburgh, c1930s. Artist: Donald McLeish
Edinburgh. Many a prisoner, mean and noble, has climbed the steep staircase of the Tolbooth in the Canongate to meet his doom, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Delhi, c1930s. Artist: ENA
Delhi. By the eastern wall of the Palace is the Diwan-I-Khas or Hall of Private Audience, measuring 90 feet by 67 feet. It is built of white marble and inlaid with jewels

Delhi, c1930s. Artist: ENA
Delhi. Opposite the Royal Baths stands the Moti Masjid, or Pearl Mosque, built A.D. 1659 by Aurungzebe, the great Mogul Emperor, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Delhi, c1930s
Delhi. This gallery with its gorgeous arabesques is in the Rang Mahal or Painted Palace, once the residence of the Chief Sultana, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Delhi, c1930s. Artist: ENA
Delhi. Through the Jama Masjid gates the pilgrim enters a fine courtyard, 325 feet square, with a marble basin in its midst, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Constantinople, c1930s
Constantinople. Where the Bosporus narrows to 722 yards the increased current is called the Devils Stream. The towers of Rumeli Hissar, built in 1452

Constantinople, c1930s. Artist: ENA
Constantinople. On a hill overlooking the Sea of Marmora the road to the quays of Scutari leads through the Biyuk Mezaristan, the largest of the Moslem cemeteries

Holland, c1930s. Artist: Donald McLeish
Holland. The small harbour of the fishing island of Urk, situated right in the centre of the Zuider Zee, bristles with the tall masts of fishing smacks sturdily built to withstand the buffetings of

England, late 19th century, (c1930s). Artist: George Perry Ashley Abraham
England. North of Grasmere, shrine of the English Lake poets, Helm crag raises its crest immortalised by Wordsworth, late 19th century, (c1930s). From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Edinburgh, c1930s. Artist: Donald McLeish
Edinburgh. Viewed from an Old Town, Edinburgh Castle seems as invulnerable by time as the rock on which it is built, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Delhi, c1930s. Artist: ENA
Delhi. The Jama Masjid is one of the very few mosques in India designed to present a pleasing exterior, and it stands imposingly on an enormous basement

Siam, c1930s
Siam. Blunt spies to the many temples in the Wat Phra Keo in Bangkok and every structure is covered thickly with ornament, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 5

Sahara, c1930s
Sahara. As the last of the afterglow dies down, as violet shadows fill the hollows and the first white stars appear upon the dark cloak of night, the muffled Beduins squat their flickering fire

Cycling 1839-1939 front cover, 1939. From Cycling 1839-1939. [John Player & Sons, London, 1939]. (Colorised black and white print)

Act IV Scene i from Macbeth, c19th century. From A Collection of Prints illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, by Josiah Boydell. [, , c19th century.]. (Colorised black and white print)

Panorama of Barranquilla (Central Sector), c1940s. From Barranquilla. [Raul de la Espriella B. Barranquilla]

Philippe Francois d Arenberg meeting Troops, 1662, (c1915). Artist: Adam Frans van der Meulen
Philippe Francois d Arenberg meeting Troops, 1662, (c1915). Held by the National Gallery, London. From International Art: Past and Present by Alfred Yockney. [Virtue & Company, London, c1915]

Prince Gvidon and Princess Swan, 1890s. Artist: Vrubel, Mikhail Alexandrovich (1856-1910)
Prince Gvidon and Princess Swan, 1890s. Found in the collection of the State Museum Abramtsevo Estate, near Moscow

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