http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library Print Store > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved 2009-11-23T05:19:23Z en-gb 86400 Digital Media Commerce Server from Media Storehouse Ltd Henry VIII. King of England 1491-1547 > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_934231/henry-viii-king-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_934231/henry-viii-king-of.jpg 2008-04-18T13:22:19Z dmcs-934231 Sir Walter Raleigh - portrait of the English soldier, explorer, courtier and writer 1552-1618. Oil painting by Hubert L. Smith, Oriel College, Oxford. Connection with Elizabeth I > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_936988/sir-walter-raleigh- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_936988/sir-walter-raleigh-.jpg 2008-04-18T15:20:58Z dmcs-936988 The Trial of Charles I - engraving from 1649 1600-1649. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_937101/the-trial-of-charles http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_937101/the-trial-of-charles.jpg 2008-04-18T15:26:20Z dmcs-937101 JAMES II, King of England, 1688. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938643/james-ii-king-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938643/james-ii-king-of.jpg 2008-04-18T16:46:13Z dmcs-938643 Thomas Cromwell engraving. English statesman to King Henry VIII. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938893/thomas-cromwell-engraving-english http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938893/thomas-cromwell-engraving-english.jpg 2008-04-19T11:47:54Z dmcs-938893 Sir Winston Churchill as a young man, British Prime Minister, 1874-1965. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938928/sir-winston-churchill-as http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938928/sir-winston-churchill-as.jpg 2008-04-19T11:56:26Z dmcs-938928 'The King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Mr. Churchill on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day'. The end of World War II > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938929/the-king-and-queen http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_938929/the-king-and-queen.jpg 2008-04-19T11:56:29Z dmcs-938929 Captain R. F. Scott - portrait British explorer, lost his life upon return from South Pole on 29 March 1912. Ralph Vaughan Williams connection (Scott of the Antartica film, and Symphony no. 7, Sinfonia Antartica). Personality postcard > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940054/captain-r-f-scott http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940054/captain-r-f-scott.jpg 2008-04-21T12:07:20Z dmcs-940054 Edward VII & wife Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Portrait captioned ' T.R.H. Prince & Princess of Wales '. British monarch / ruler / king, 1901-1910, 9 November 1841 - 6 May 1910.. Royal family tinted postcard > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940064/edward-vii-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940064/edward-vii-and.jpg 2008-04-21T12:08:33Z dmcs-940064 Winston Churchill - portrait. British politician and Prime Minister 1874-1965. PM: 1940-1945 and 1951-1955. Caption reads 'Our Skipper'. Early 20th century postcard. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940065/winston-churchill-portrait http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940065/winston-churchill-portrait.jpg 2008-04-21T12:08:38Z dmcs-940065 The New Steam Carriage - English scene showing one of first mid-19th century steam carriages, with passengers. Pub in background. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940236/the-new-steam-carriage http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940236/the-new-steam-carriage.jpg 2008-04-21T12:29:05Z dmcs-940236 The Progress of Steam - English scene showing early steam carriages being driven in Regent Park, with passengers, dated 1831. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940237/the-progress-of-steam http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940237/the-progress-of-steam.jpg 2008-04-21T12:29:11Z dmcs-940237 Queen Victoria & Prince Albert - portrait with game. 19thcCentury > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940308/queen-victoria-and-prince http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940308/queen-victoria-and-prince.jpg 2008-04-21T12:38:57Z dmcs-940308 William Pitt - Portrait of the English politician by Gainsborough Dupont 28 May 1759 - 23 January 1806. British Prime Minister 1783-1801 > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940324/william-pitt-portrait http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940324/william-pitt-portrait.jpg 2008-04-21T12:40:48Z dmcs-940324 Oliver Goldsmith ' s 'The Vicar of Wakefield' illustration of 'The Social Evening' by Thomas Rowlandson, English caricaturist 14 July 1756 - 22 April 1827. OG 10 November 1730 or 1728 - 4 April 1774, Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician. The Vicar of Wakefield first published 1766. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940356/oliver-goldsmith-s http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940356/oliver-goldsmith-s.jpg 2008-04-21T12:46:08Z dmcs-940356 'The Shepherd 's Calendar' - illustration - 'January' - 1597 > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940357/the-shepherd-s-calendar http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940357/the-shepherd-s-calendar.jpg 2008-04-21T12:46:28Z dmcs-940357 Admiral Horatio Nelson - postcard depicting his 'conflict with a Spanish launch' - 3 July 1797 - British naval commander at the Battle of Trafalgar. 29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805 > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940388/admiral-horatio-nelson- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940388/admiral-horatio-nelson-.jpg 2008-04-21T12:53:01Z dmcs-940388 Magna Carta - illustration depicting 'the barons taking the oath at the giving of the Magna Charta' - 1215 - by W D Adams > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940400/magna-carta-illustration http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940400/magna-carta-illustration.jpg 2008-04-21T12:54:54Z dmcs-940400 King George V & Queen Mary - in Coronation regalia, 1910 - frontispiece for the Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee. Photo by W & D Downey. Hand-tinted. 1910-1935. The King in Robe of Purple Velvet and Imperial Crown, the Queen in Coronation dress and crown as they showed themselves to the people from the balcony. Plate I. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940545/king-george-v-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940545/king-george-v-and.jpg 2008-04-21T13:20:56Z dmcs-940545 King George V - as a Yachtsman. At the helm of his racing cutter 'Britannia'. Hand-tinted photograph in Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee. 1910-1935. Bottom inset of the King as a young cadet aboard 'The Bacchante'. With elaborated maritime borders. Plate V. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940546/king-george-v- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940546/king-george-v-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:21:07Z dmcs-940546 King George V - in full dress uniform with sword in official portrait photograph of 1935. Colour photograph by Finlay Colour Ltd. 1910-1935. From The Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee. Plate VII. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940547/king-george-v- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940547/king-george-v-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:21:17Z dmcs-940547 Queen Mary - in sash and tiara, holding fan, official portrait photograph of 1935. Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee. Colour photograph by Finlay Colour Ltd. 1910-1935. Plate VIII. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940549/queen-mary-in http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940549/queen-mary-in.jpg 2008-04-21T13:21:26Z dmcs-940549 Queen Victoria - drawing of the Queen of the United Kingdom with her Indian secretary at Balmoral Castle shortly before her death. 24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901. Queen from 20 June 1837 to her death. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940601/queen-victoria-drawing http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940601/queen-victoria-drawing.jpg 2008-04-21T13:29:30Z dmcs-940601 Queen Victoria - photograph of the Queen of the United Kingdom in the Cote d'Azur sitting in a horse and carriage. 24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901. Queen from 20 June 1837 to her death. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940602/queen-victoria-photograph http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940602/queen-victoria-photograph.jpg 2008-04-21T13:29:39Z dmcs-940602 Ping-Pong - illustration of high society in England playing the new fashionable game of 'Ping-Pong' in the early 20th century. From 'L'Illustration', 25 May 1901 edition. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940608/ping-pong-illustration-of http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940608/ping-pong-illustration-of.jpg 2008-04-21T13:31:01Z dmcs-940608 Admiral Horatio Nelson - postcard of 'Commodore Nelson boarding the 'San Josef'', 14 February 1797. British naval commander at the Battle of Trafalgar, 29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940632/admiral-horatio-nelson- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940632/admiral-horatio-nelson-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:35:06Z dmcs-940632 Admiral Horatio Nelson - postcard of 'Nelson embraced by his superior Officer Admiral Jarvis in gratitude and admiration after the Battle of St Vincent', 1797. British naval commander at the Battle of Trafalgar, 29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940633/admiral-horatio-nelson- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940633/admiral-horatio-nelson-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:35:21Z dmcs-940633 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert wedding dance. Called 'Hermilie or the Bridal Waltz' because disrespectful to refer directly to the Queen.Published, London, Julien, before 1846 - around time of Victoria 's accession to the throne of England. Illustration by J. Brandard. 'Julien's celebrated valses a deux tems, 2nd set.' Shows steps. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940707/queen-victoria-and-prince http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940707/queen-victoria-and-prince.jpg 2008-04-21T13:49:14Z dmcs-940707 Captain James Cook - illustration of 'an offering before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands' showing natives in a circle around Cook and his crew. JC: British explorer, 27 October 1728 - 14 February 1779. From Cook's 'Three Voyages Round the World'. Sandwich Island now Hawaii, discovered by Cook 18 January 1778. Exploration , travel. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940738/captain-james-cook- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940738/captain-james-cook-.jpg 2008-04-21T13:54:43Z dmcs-940738 Battle of Bunker Hill - illustration of a battle of the American Revolutionary War between America and Britain in which the British won a pyrrhic victory, 17 June 1775. American flag, cannon, fighting, death, dying. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940746/battle-of-bunker-hill http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940746/battle-of-bunker-hill.jpg 2008-04-21T13:56:14Z dmcs-940746 Elizabethan England - typical costumes from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, with two men and two women. QEI: 7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603. Queen from 17 November 1558 to death. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940753/elizabethan-england-typical http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940753/elizabethan-england-typical.jpg 2008-04-21T13:57:19Z dmcs-940753 Jew's Free School, Middlesex Street, Petticoat Lane in East London. School children in street c. 1920s. Education > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940768/jews-free-school-middlesex http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940768/jews-free-school-middlesex.jpg 2008-04-21T13:59:13Z dmcs-940768 William the Conqueror and his men enjoy a feast. Detail from the Tapestry of Bayeux. 11th century > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940840/william-the-conqueror-and http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940840/william-the-conqueror-and.jpg 2008-04-21T14:10:36Z dmcs-940840 A Victorian picnic - c. 1860. The women are wearing bone hoop skirt petticoats and pantalets. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940844/a-victorian-picnic- http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_940844/a-victorian-picnic-.jpg 2008-04-21T14:10:54Z dmcs-940844 Oliver Cromwell portrait. English military leader and politician. 25 April 1599 - 3 September 1658 - > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941002/oliver-cromwell-portrait http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941002/oliver-cromwell-portrait.jpg 2008-04-21T14:27:04Z dmcs-941002 written by John Keats to his brother's fiancee in 1817. Caption reads: 'Nymph of the downward smile, and sidelong glance, In what diviner moments of the day art thou most lovely'-..'. JK: English Romantic poet: 31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821. Illustration by Claude Shepperson. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941471/to-g-a-w http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941471/to-g-a-w.jpg 2008-04-21T15:42:21Z dmcs-941471 BALFOUR, The Right Honourable A J - portrait Creator of the Balfour Declaration - provided for creation of Jewish state in Palestine 1917. > English History Copyright Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library 2008 - All Rights Reserved http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941483/balfour-the-right-honourable http://lebrecht.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_941483/balfour-the-right-honourable.jpg 2008-04-21T15:43:55Z dmcs-941483