Images Dated 24th August 2012

Grave of an unknown British soldier near Ginchy

Photograph: Grave of an unknown British soldier near Ginchy. Shows a cross and grave marked with two rifles, on one of which is hung a service cap. The rank Corporal, unit Connaught Rangers and date Sept are visible. Probably relates to 6th Bn Connaught Rangers and the Battle of Ginchy, September 1916. C. 696. One of 193 British and Allied Official photographs taken on the Western Front during World War One. Mounted on card, some with their original captions. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). Date: 1916

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Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte d'Angiviller

Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte d'Angiviller (1730-1809). Director of the Batiments du Roi. Portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802). 1780-1789. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

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Tomkins and Challoner, led to gallows, Holborn, London, 1643 (illustration)

"Scanned directly from Old and New London - Its History, its people and its places, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1878. Illustration of Tomkins and Challoner being led to the gallows. In the second year of the war between King and Parliament, the Royal successes at Bath, Bristol, and Cornwall, as well as the partial victory at Edgehill, had roused the party and chilled many adherents of the Puritans. The distrust of Pym and his friends soon broke out into a reactionary plot, in which Waller, the poet, was dangerously mixed up. The chief conspirators were Tomkins and Challoner, the former Waller's brother-in-law, a gentleman living in Holborn, near the end of Fetter Lane, and a secretary to the Commissioners of the Royal Revenues. Tomkins and Challoner were hung at the Holborn end of Fetter Lane in 1643."

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