Images Dated 8th April 2016

Beach Pyjamas
1934: A group of women wearing beach pyjamas. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Shackletons Trans-Antarctic Expedition
ANTARCTICA - 1916: Members of an expedition team led by Irish explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton pull one of their lifeboats across the snow in the Antarctic, following the loss of the Endurance

Praying Hands by Albrecht Durer
Praying hands by the German artist Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528), circa 1500

Dylan Thomas Drinking & Smoking
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) drinking a glass of beer and smoking while seated at a desk with stacks of his books of poetry, New York City, c. 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Teasmaid
March 1950: A teasmaid machine. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

TS Eliot
Anglo-American poet, critic and writer, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965), 1950. (Photo by John Gay/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Forth Bridge
Construction of the Forth Bridge, on the Firth of Forth at Queensferry in Lothian, 23rd June 1888

Jane Austen
English novelist Jane Austen from an original family portrait. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Liver Buildings
circa 1925: The Liver Buildings in Liverpool, Merseyside, near the citys dockside. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nietzsche
circa 1885: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Thomas Hardy
circa 1890: English writer Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), the author of Tess of the D Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Newcastle Upon Tyne
circa 1800: The city of Newcastle upon Tyne, formerly the county town of Northumberland, situated on the River Tyne. Original Artwork: Engraving by Pelton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851), British writer best known for Frankenstein, and second wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bust Of Augustus
10 BC, The first Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 BC - 14 AD), the adopted son of Julius Caesar

Scott Joplin American pianist and composer
American pianist and composer Scott Joplin ((1868 - 1917). Exponent of ragtime. Received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Portrait of Franz Kafka
Portrait of Austrian-born writer Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) in a suit with his hair parted down the middle, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

TS Eliot
Anglo-American poet TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). Naturalized British in 1927, Awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

England Expects
Admiral Horatio Nelsons flagship HMS Victory being towed into Gibraltar and also shown moored at Portsmouth

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886), Hungarian composer at the piano. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rorkes Drift
The Defence of Rorkes Drift during the Zulu War, 22nd January 1879

Cambrian Railways - Barmouth Viaduct - Girders between Pier 4 and 5 [N. D]
Drawing no.8 - Elevation, sections and plans of the Viaduct Please note this is a microfilm copy and not the original

St Mary Abchurch
circa 1800: The Church of St Mary Abchurch, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Portrait Of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull
Portrait shows the chief of the Sioux tribe Sitting Bull (1831 - 1890), known as Tatanka Iyotake to his people, as he sits in Bismarck, North Dakota, 1881

Angel Islington
circa 1895: Horse drawn traffic and a Liptons Tea and Coffee shop at The Angel Islington, London at the corner of Pentonville Road. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sissinghurst Garden
circa 1930: The famous gardens at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, the home of English novelist Vita Sackville-West. Now the property of the National Trust, they were developed by Sackville-West herself

British Battleship HMS Royal Oak
circa 1910: British battleship HMS Royal Oak. HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

The Scots Guard
circa 1880: Uniforms of the Scots Guards. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Beatrix Potter
1889: English writer (Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pancho Villa Sits On Horseback
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878 - 1923) sits on horseback, wearing a straw hat and ammunition strapped across his shoulders, 1910s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mao Tse-tung
A portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung taken during the 1969 North Chinese Communist party Congress. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tam O Shanter fleeing on horseback from the hellish legion, an episode from a verse-narrative by Robert Burns. Original Artwork: Artist - Abraham Cooper RA (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

GWR Iron Duke Class Steam Locomotive
Vintage engraving of a GWR Iron Duke Class Steam Locomotive. The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work

Poole & Bournmouth Railway - Parkstone and Bournemouth [c1898]
Elevations of Stations

Chichester
circa 1890: The Market Cross, Chichester. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Whitley Bay
circa 1925: The coastal resort at Whitley Bay, Northumberland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sigmund Freud Smoking
Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) smoking a cigar, c. 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

US Steel Works
The blast furnaces and rolling mills of the Homestead Steel Works, Pittsburgh. From a stereograph. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Royal Albert Bridge
The Royal Albert Bridge, designed by British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, over the River Tamar at Saltash, under construction. (Photo by Picture Post/Getty Images)

T E Lawrence
British soldier, adventurer and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 - 1935) the Uncrowned King Of The Arabs on the Governors Balcony in Jerusalem

Forth Bridge
The Forth Bridge which spans the Firth of Forth at Queensferry in Lothian and is over a mile long

Early X-Ray
One of the first X-ray photographs, taken by the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845 - 1923) and showing his wifes hand, 23rd January 1896. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Olde English Pub
circa 1870: Three patrons of an old English tavern sit nursing their drinks in a quiet nook. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

St-Leonards-on-Sea
Bathing machines shelter shy holidaymakers from prying eyes at St-Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, circa 1895. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Penny Farthing Bicycle, Skipton, Yorkshire
Man with a Penny Farthing Bicycle, Skipton, Yorkshire. 19th century

L. S. W. R Parkstone Station - New Platform Roofing [1898]
Elevations, sections and plan of roofing

Sea Of Faces
The sailor gazes down at the sea from the deck of his ship and sees the waves transformed into beautiful women

Chicken And Cockerel
circa 1880: A pair of fowls. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A Punt Full Of Swans
1st June 1900: Swans being removed from Henley Reach by punt, in peparation for the practices of Henley Regatta, June 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Imperial Institute
circa 1890: The outside of the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Portrait Dempsey
Date unknown: American Heavyweight, Jack Dempsey. Became World Champion in 1919 by stopping Jess Willard in three rounds at Toledo, Ohio

Krakatoa Erupts
27th May 1883: Clouds pouring from the volcano on Krakatoa (aka Krakatau or Rakata) in south western Indonesia during the early stages of the eruption which eventually destroyed most of the island

Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh (1903 - 1966), English writer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Penny Farthing
A cyclist riding a penny farthing over Hammersmith Bridge, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Movie Theater Marquee
A huge crowd gathers outside the Warner Brothers theater on Wiltshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for a film premiere, 1930s. The marquee reads in part Premiere of Premieres; Grand Opening Tonight

Battle Of The Somme
Battle of the Somme, France. The 39th Siege Battery artillery in action in the Fricourt-Mametz Valley. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American Homestead Winter
In a Currier & Ives print titled American Homestead Winter, a man with his dog carries firewood to his home as a couple in a horse-drawn slegh pass him on the road, 1868

Match Girls
Members of the Matchmakers Union who went on strike at the Bryant and Mays factory in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Emily Bronte
An oil painting of Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848), authoress of the novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jazz Musicians
A group of musicians playing jazz music which derived from plantation work song hollers and chants, into the blues and Dixieland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

View Of West 42nd Street
View looking east along West 42nd Street from 6th Ave, New York, New York, circa 1930s. The New York Public Library is visible at right and the skyscraper with the spire (C) is the Chrysler Building

Publicity Still Of Annie Oakley
Publicity still of American sharpshooter Annie Oakley (1860 - 1926) as she loads a shotgun near a table display of adorned with various marksmanship medals, late 1800s

Mary Wollstonecraft
circa 1797: English feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759 - 1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shoshone Indian
circa 1900: Shoshone Indian holding a rifle on horseback. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A Christmas Carol
circa 1900: The Ghost of Christmas Present appears to the miserly Scrooge with a lavish Christmas spread, in a scene from Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Scrooges Third Visitor, by J Leech

Gordon Highlander
1794: A Gordon Highlander in his regimental uniform and holding a gun and bayonet. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Penguins on Elephant Island aken during Sir Ernest Henry Shackletons Antarctic expedition on SS Endurance
ELEPHANT ISLAND, ANTARCTICA - 1916: Penguins on the coastline of Elephant Island, Antarctica

Aberdeen
circa 1930: Union Terrace and King Edward Memorial in Aberdeen, Scotland

Curlew
circa 1800: The Curlew, a wading bird named after its plaintive whistling cry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tower Of London
circa 1905: Soldiers parading outside the Tower of London, a fortress on the Thames, begun soon after 1066 and later extended. It has served as a palace, a main state prison and nowadays as a museum

HMS Good Hope
circa 1912: The battleship, HMS Good Hope, at sea. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Vimy Ridge Memorial
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France, located on the site of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1936

Caledonian Canal
circa 1880: Sailing vessel Margaret Reid in the Caledonian Canal at Muirton. The canal was completed in 1887 and runs between the Irish Sea on the west and the North Sea on the east

Faustus
An illustration of the 1616 cover to The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Ch Marklin (sic) - Christopher Marlowes first edition was printed in 1604

Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker (1845 - 1912) the Irish writer who partnered Henry Irving in running the Lyceum Theatre in London from 1878 - 1905. He wrote the classic horror story Dracula in 1897

Polish Born British Novelist Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was born J├│zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, to Polish parents in Berdichev (now Berdychiv), Ukraine, and was raised and educated primarily in Poland

Elizabeth Browning
English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), wife of Robert Browning. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Huguenot Wedding
circa 1760: A Huguenot wedding taking place secretly in a forest. The minister raises his arms in blessing over a young couple. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Welsh Dragon
circa 1900: The national emblem of Wales. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Ripon Market Place
circa 1800: The market place and town hall at Ripon in North Yorkshire. Original Artwork: Engraved by J Shury after a drawing by N Whittock. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Moroccan Jew
circa 1890: A middle-class Jew from Tangiers in traditional cloak and cummerbund. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Henry Thoreau
circa 1857: American writer, naturalist and recluse Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Paris Sewer
circa 1860: Interior of a sewer under Paris. (Photo by Nadar/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Silver Link, the new LNER streamlined engine, at Kings Cross Station in London, September 1935. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Human Brain
circa 1830: The brain and nerves from an early 19th century book of anatomy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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