Images Dated 5th September 2016

Marianne Faithfull, singer, songwriter and actress

Marianne Faithfull (b.1946), English singer, songwriter and actress. Seen here as a teenager at the Prospect Theatre, Reading, where she went to school.
circa 1962

© A Flying History/The Peter Keating Aviation Photograph Collection/Mary Evans Picture Library

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Christmas Day 1854

A page of vignettes showing how Christmas Day was traditionally celebrated by Victorian families in the 1850s. Stockings and present giving was followed by church. Afterwards a Christmas dinner and then songs and dancing around the Christmas tree. Date: 1939

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Tatler cover - Gracie Fields

Front cover of The Tatler featuring photograph of Gracie Fields (1898 - 1979), British singer and actress, affectionately known as "Our Gracie" by millions. Pictured here making her first broadcast of the Second World War before an audience of soldiers and national service workers. Date: 1939

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans