Nostalgia
A look back at the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
Fought between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
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The day the first underground railway in the world opens in Middlesex!
It was the first underground railway in the world
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Sir Ernest Shackleton the Antarctic Explorer
One of Britain's most celebrated explorers
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Lindisfarne Island and the Viking Age
"From the fury of the Northmen save us, O Lord"
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The Querky world of QWERTY
Today, the type-writer is but a memory, although a 'fond memory' at that.
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On this day in 1066
On hearing of Harold's coronation, Duke William II of Normandy, a claimant to the throne of England began plans to invade England.
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A look at Tobacco Dock Wapping through the ages
The drawing in the centre, below the main image, is that of "an indian chief, with the pipe of peace."
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The history of Samuel Colt's revolver
Colt's Firearms Company had its showroom in the prestigious address of 14, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
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The Seige of Sidney Street
The Siege of Sidney Street .... was a gunfight between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries.
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General Wolfe the 'Hero of Quebec.'
Wolfe's part in the taking of Quebec earned him lasting fame
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John Newton and the slave trade
Newton lived to see Britain's abolition of the African slave trade in the passing of the "Slave Trade Act," in March 1807
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The history of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and this antique print
The Royal Observatory is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames and the Isle of Dogs.