Images Dated 24th January 2019

Women Members of Parliament - 1929

Women Politicians elected to the House of Commons in June 1929: (from top left) Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (Conservative), Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), Gwendolen Florence Mary Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (Conservative), Margaret Bondfield (Labour), Marion Phillips (Labour), Ethel Bentham (Labour), Mary Hamilton (Labour), Ellen Wilkinson (Labour), Megan Lloyd George (Liberal), Jenny (Jennie) Lee (Labour), Edith Picton-Turbervill (Labour), Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley (Labour) and Susan Lawrence (Labour). Date: 1929

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Europe, Italy, Tuscany. The Belvedere villa landmark and farmland

Europe, Italy, Tuscany. The Belvedere villa landmark and farmland. Credit as: Dennis Flaherty / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

© William D. Jaynes (BJY) / Danita Delimont

Belvedere Farmhouse, Cypress, Danita Delimont, Dennis Flaherty, Farm, Flower, Green, Hill, House, Italy, Jaynes Gallery, Landscape, Mist, Nobody, Scenic, Tourism, Travel, Tree, Tuscany, Yellow

Vanity fair caricature of King Leopold II of Belgium

Vintage engraving of King Leopold II of Belgium. Un roi constitutionnel. From Vanity Fair1869. Chromolithograph. Leopold II (9 April 1835 - 17 December 1909) reigned as the King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. He became known for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture and the atrocities perpetrated there under his rule

© of Duncan P Walker