Professional carnival dance troupe from London on stage at Potternewton Park, Leeds 1990.
© Max Farrar. Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service.
The Deep Store: a former salt mine used for archival storage. Courtesy of Cheshire County Council.
Human and canine members of Hull City Engineer's Department c.1920 and the results of their labours. Courtesy of Hull City Archives.
Henry A. Morgan, Master of Trinity College 1885-1912. Courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Reverse seal of Elizabeth I. Courtesy of York City Archives.
John Lennon of the Beatles taken during the shooting of "Help!" by the Hungarian photo-journalist Michael Peto. Courtesy of the University of Dundee.
Nurses at the Royal Asylum of Montrose practising with a fire hose c. 1910. Courtesy of the University of Dundee.
Cameraman in action. Courtesy of the North West Film Archive.
Detail from a 1929 poster advertising the White Star Line. Courtesy of the History of Advertising Trust.
Detail from an advert for HP sauce.
Elevation plan of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, 1842. © Lambeth Palace Library.
World's first through-the-wall cash machine 1967. Courtesy of Barclay's Bank.
Barclaycard (UK's first credit card) advertising campaign, 1960s. Courtesy of Barclay's Bank.
The 1984 'birthday cake' exhibition on the South Bank of the River Thames, celebrating 95 years of London Government by the London Country Council, and the Greater London Council. Courtesy of London Metropolitan Archives.
A late fifteenth century Book of Hours from Northern France. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and now in the National Library of Scotland. From the estate of John Henry Stuart Borthwick, 23rd Lord Borthwick..
Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Jupiter and Northernstar engines and the Royal Mail Coach.
Announcement of an increase in the cost of postage, 1973. Courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Archive.
Testing reflecting road studs ("cats eyes") using tanks, 1952. The National Archives, Crown Copyright.
Gibbs SR toothpaste advertisement c. 1955. Courtesy of the History of Advertising Trust.
Festival of Light versus the Festival of Life poster, 1971. Courtesy of the London School of Economics.
Mud March of the Suffragettes, 1907. Courtesy of The Womens' Library.
Map of the City of Worcester, 1651. Courtesy of Worcestershire Record Office.
People loving their ride on a roller coaster on London's South Bank c.1950. Courtesy of the London Metropolitan Archives.
The famous Hyde Park free speech corner. Imperial War Museum, Crown Copyright.
Press cutting about The Great Smog, 1952. Courtesy of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Science.
Bahadur Shah (reg. 1837-58), last Mogul Emperor of India. Courtesy of The British Library.
The Council, Vandaleur Estate, Co. Clare, c.1888. Courtesy of the National Photographic Archive, Ireland.
Christmas Exhibition catalogue, Richard Demarco Gallery, 1966. Courtesy of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
A fruiterer surrounded by his wares. © The National Archives, Crown Copyright.
Nottingham Playhouse production of Bent (1982). Courtesy of Nottinghamshire Archives.
A surveyor at work on Horseshoe Island, Antarctic, 1956. Courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey.
The discovery of penicillin. Florey as a "True Comics" hero. December 1944. © COMICS INT. Courtesy of the Royal Society.
Unloading bananas on the Manchester Ship Canal. © Manchester Ship Canal Co. Courtesy of Greater Manchester County Record Office.
Examples of early mainframe computers in banking, 1962. Courtesy of HSBC Archives.