1877: Recruiting Sergeants in Westminster
By the mid-Victorian Age people were beginning to look at recruiting sergeants with fresh eyes
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A collection of 27 Posts
1892: Tower Bridge, London
At the end of the nineteenth century the gaunt arms of an engineering wonder stretched across the River Thames
1939: A Montana Rancher
Louis D. Hall explores the history behind one of Arthur Rothstein's finest photographs
1895: A Remarkable Railway Crash in Paris
The day in 1895 when a locomotive ploughed through the wall of Montparnasse Station
1865: Meet the Countess of Castiglione
In the 1860s, 'La Divine Comtesse' was considered the most beautiful woman of her day
1926: Driving a Flock of Sheep through London
In the 1920s the last traces of old Dickensian London faded as the modern city grew at pace
1888: The Eiffel Tower: The Beauty and the Terror
The Parisian skyline was changing in a strange and stirring way in July 1888 when Gustave Eiffel led a tour of his majestic new tower
1917: Johnny Reynolds, 'Human Fly', Thrills Crowd
On Wednesday 5 September 1917, the daredevil climber Johnny Reynolds performed in Washington D.C.
1941: Mill District, Pittsburgh
We search for the source of this classic image by one of twentieth century's great documentary photographers
1950: Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory
"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"
1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Here it is in colour.
1949: The Chicago Theatre
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick