Images Dated 2nd August 2015

A discussion on the Piltdown skull by John Cooke

Portrait group of well-known British scientists examining the Piltdown skull. This topical painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915, while debate continued as to whether the bones represented the missing link between man and ape. From left to right in the front row: Professor A.S Underwood, Professor Arthur Keith, Mr. W. P Pycraft and Sir E. Ray Lankester. In the back row can be seen Mr . F.O Barlow, Professor Elliot Smith, Mr. Charles Dawson and Dr. A. Smith Woodward. The Piltdown man was found to be an elaborate hoax in the early 1950s. Date: 1915

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Bermuda - Humorous Greetings Postcard - Onion

'Blessed is the man who comes to Bermuda (The modern paradise) And is tempted to eat a sweet onion instead of a forbidden apple.' Onions are one of Bermudas largest export crops and the island is populated by many a donkey, many of hich were used (and still are) to pull small carts, carriages and wagons. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Lord Carnarvon

Photographic portrait of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), c.1922. Lord Carnarvon was the wealthy, English amateur egyptologist who financed Howard Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings in 1922-3. He was one of the first people to enter Tutankhamen's tomb. Pictured in The Tatler shortly before the tomb's historic opening and Carnarvon's subsequent death that year. Date: 1923

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