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Eric Liddell celebrating his Olympic win at Edinburgh Univer

Eric Liddell, the 400m gold medallist at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, crowned and chaired at Edinburgh University where he had studied science. Wearing a wreath of olive leaves, he is carried by fellow graduates on a chair to St. Giles Cathedral where the graduation service was held. Answering the demand for a speech, Mr Liddell said, Over the entrance to the University of Pennsylvania there are these words: In the dust of defeat as well as in the laurel of victory there is glory to be found if one has done his best.'" Eric Liddell (1902 - 1945), was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international and missionary, Olympic gold medal winner in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games and subject of the Oscar-winning 1981 film, Chariots of Fire. Date: 1924

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King Victor Emmanuel III

Photographic portrait of Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy (1869-1947). A constitutional monarch, he defied parliamentary majorities in bringing Italy into World War I on the side of the Allies. His appointment of Mussolini as premier in 1922 reduced the king's powers considerably. Date: December 11th 1915

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Not a Word! Personalities at the Derby by The Tout

Not a Word! Everyone know this year's Derby winner. What they may be doing just before the race on June 6. Caricatures of notable personalities of the turf drawn by The Tout for The Tatler magazine. Names include, from left to right, Lord Howard de Walden, "The Black Prince", Dawson Waugh, Lord Durham, the Hon. Tom Egerton, Lord Valentia, Fred Darling, Gordon Richards, Victor Gilpin, The Duke of Norfolk, Mr J. A. Dewar, H.H. The Aga Khan, Steve Donoghue and Brownie Carslake, Fred Fox, Mr Tom Walls, Lord Derby, H. H. The Maharaja of Rajpipla, Cecil Boyd-Rochfort and Major Harold Cayzer, Togo Johnstone and Lord Glanely. Date: 1934

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