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Jules Perrot (1810-1894) French dancer, choreographer and ballet master, and Fanny (Francesca) Cerito or Cerrito (c1817-1909) Italian ballerina

A Farewell Ride on Jumbo at the Zoo. This large African elephant was sold by London Zoo in 1882 to the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)

Jumbo the large African elephant sold by London Zoo in 1882 to the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) for his circus which became known as the Greatest Show on Earth

The Extinct Animals model room at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, showing models of dinosaurs being prepared for display. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889) prepared the display

Reconstruction of Iguanadon, large herbivorous dinosaur, sketched from model on show at the Natural History Museum, London. From The Illustrated London News (London 1895). Engraving

Teaching girls to read in The Ragged School Union (formed 1844) school, Lambeth, London. From The Illustrated London News 11 April 1868. Wood engraving

Teaching boys to read in The Ragged School Union (formed 1844) school, Lambeth, London. From The Illustrated London News 11 April 1868. Wood engraving

Schliemanns excavations at Mycenae. Illustrated London News artist sketching in front of the Lion gateway at Myceneae 1877. Engraving

Rebecca Riots in Wales. Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads. Another of their main targets was union workhouses

Threshing with ash wood flails in a barn. A labour-intensive winter occupation for farm labourers which was gradually made obsolete with the introduction of threshing machines

A mail train on which letters were sorted while it travelled through the night between cities, replacing the need for the horse-drawn mail coaches. From The Illustrated London News, January, 1849

Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway: Viaduct across the Preston Road, Brighton, changing and dominating the landscape. From The Illustrated London News, London, 13 June 1846

Railway mania: Rushing to deposit railway plans at the Board of Trade before the deadline for submission. From The Illustrated London News 6 December 1845

Poverty-stricken inhabitants of the east end of London queuing for bread and soup at the Limehouse Special Relief Committees soup kitchen. From The Illustrated London News, London, 7 March 1868

Scene between decks on an emigrant ship carrying poor needlewomen to Australia. At this date skilled workers were given sponsored passages to emigrate to the colonies

Pen slitting room, Hinks, Wells & Co. factory, Birmingham. From The Illustrated Midland News, 22 February 1851. Women employed in mass production of goods

Snigs End, Gloucestershire, where Feargus O Connor set up a Chartist Land Scheme where allotments of 2 acres and a cottage were made. From The Illustrated London News, February 1850

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Chartism, a movement for social and political reform took its name from The Peoples Charter of 1838. The great turn out, August 1842: At Preston, Lancashire, police

Londoners celebrating the news of the relief of Mafeking. In the Second Boer War the British were besieged at Mafeking from 12 October 1899-17 May 1900. Engraving

Parliamentary Reform - extension of the suffrage. Police attempted to prevent a Reform meeting in Hyde Park but the demonstrators broke down the park railings and overwhelmed the police

Meeting of supporters of the Reform Bill in Hyde Park, London. From The Illustrated London News, 18 May 1847

William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) campaigning in Edinburgh during the 1892 election caused by the fall of Lord Salisburys Conservative government

Election campaign, November / December 1885. Lord Salisbury, Conservative Prime Minister
Election campaign, November/December 1885. Lord Salisbury, Conservative Prime Minister addressing the Conservative association at Newport, Monmouthshire

Roderick McClean shooting at Queen Victoria at Windsor railway station. From The Illustrated London News, 11 March 1882

Fenian explosives conspiracy, 1883: Police discovery of nitro-glycerine factory in the Ladywood district of Birmingham. From The Illustrated London News, 14 April 1883

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) giving an election address on Blackheath in his Greenwich constituency. General election February 1874. Gladstone lost to the Conservatives under Disraeli

Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell - 1831-1896) wife of Richard Francis Burton, English explorer, adventurer and author. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 22 January 1887)

Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888) English electrical engineer, born at Wanstead, Essex. He oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable

Thomas Bazeley (1797-1885) English cotton manufacturer, merchant and politician. A member of the Anti-Cornlaw League. Member of Parliament for Manchester 1858-1880

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1902-1905 Balfour Declaration (1917)

Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907) German surgeon who introduced the sterilisation of surgical instruments. He was called to San Remo to examine the Prussian Crown Prince

Hector Berliioz (1803-1859) French Romantic composer. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 February 1848)

Mary Somerville (born Fairfax) (1780-1872), Scottish scientific writer, born in Jedburgh. After she was widowed in 1807she had the opportunity to study mathematics and astronomy

William Harrison (1812-1860) English sailor. First captain of the SS Great Eastern, the ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. From The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1861)

Robert Stephenson (1803-1859) English civil engineer and son of the railway engineer George Stephenson whom he assisted in a number of projects

Henriette Sontag (1806-1854) celebrated German soprano, born at Koblenz. Engraving of Madame Sontag published in The Illustrated London News (London)

Thomas Storey (1825-1898) English industrialist and philanthropist from Lancashire. Storey was a mine owner, a mill owner, and leather manufacture

The Prince Imperial. Prince Louis Napoleon (1856-1879), son of Napoleon III of France and Empress Eugenie, as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Second Boer War, also called the South African War and the Anglo-Boer War. On the way to relieve Mafeking on 17 May 1900. Royal Artillery gunners firing pom-poms against the Boers during the action

Sorting room at the General Post Office, St Martin s-le-Grand, London, England. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 16 May 1846)

Boring a well in the Baku oilfields of South Western Azerbaijan. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 June 1886)

Baku oilfields in South Western Azerbaijan. A gusher spouting out a fountain of oil before it has been brought under control. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 12 June 1886)

Little girl asking the village postman if there is a letterr for her. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 18 February 1888)

Colliery explosion near Accrington, North Lancashire, England, November 1883. Of the 110 men and boys below ground at the time, 30 men died

Baby incubators in use at the Port-Royal Maternity Hospital, Paris, France, which was under the direction of Etienne (Stepahne) Tarnier (1828-1897), French obstetrician

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Norwegian Arctic explorer making a cup of Cadbury s
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Norwegian Arctic explorer making a cup of Cadburys Cocoa during his expedition on the Fram 1893-1895. Cadbury supplied about 1, 500 lbs (680.389 kg) to the expedition

Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian pianist and composer in 1832 at the age of 21. Engraving from The Illustrated London News (London, 1886)

Khangaon cotton market, India. The cotton harvest baled up ready for sale and distribution. In the background the railway is just visible. From The Illustrated London News (London, 21 May 1870)

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