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Harriet Tubman, American anti-slavery activist, c1900
 
Adolf Hitler on the telephone, January 1935
 
James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Artist: JT Wedgwood
 
JMW Turner, RA (late 19th century)
 
Sir John Herschel, astronomer and scientist, 1810s. Artist: Gaspare Gabrielli
 
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet leader, c1940s
 
Mutiny of the crew of the Bounty 1789 (late 19th century)
 
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, c1900s
 
Sir Francis Drake, 16th century, (1910)
 
William Hogarth, 18th century English painter, printmaker, satirist and cartoonist, (c1850)
 
The Sidney Street siege, Whitechapel, London, 1911, (1935)
 
Mrs Flora Drummond, arrested in Hyde Park, London, 1914, (1935)
 
Anna Pavlova (1881-1912), Russian ballet dancer, 1911-1912. Artist: Alfred Ellis & Walery
 
Adolf Hitler dedicates new standards, Nuremberg Rally, Germany, 1934
 
Columbus with Ferdinand and Isabella, (3rd August 1492), 1912
 
In spring 1910, King Edward VII died, in March 1911, King George V was crowned 1911, (1945)
 
Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), as a young man
 
Michel Nostradamus (1503-1556), French physician and astrologer, 17th century
 
The Venerable Bede (c673-735), Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian, 1493
 
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born American inventor
 
William Pitt the Younger, British statesman
 
Marco Polo, Medieval Venetian merchant and traveller
 
Emily Davison throwing herself in front of the King's horse during the Derby, Epsom, Surrey, 1913
 
Alexandre Dumas the Elder, French novelist and playwright, c1850-1870. Artist: Etienne Carjat
 
General William Booth, evangelical social worker and founder of the Salvation Army, 1894
 
John Wycliffe, 14th century English religious reformer, 16th century
 
John Wesley, 18th century English non-conformist preacher, 1832
 
Robin Hood, legendary English folk hero and outlaw and champion of the poor, early 19th century
 
Lao-Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and inspiration of Taoism, late 19th century. Artist: Anon
 
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, British soldier, c1900. Creator: Anon
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist and scientist, c1830
 
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish theoretical physicist, 1882
 
Darwin's study at Down House, his home near Beckenham, Kent, 1883
 
Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery, c1890
 
Joseph Priestley, English chemist and Presbyterian minister, 1860. Artist: Anon
 
The Lady with the Lamp c1880
 
Josiah Wedgwood, 18th century English industrialist and potter, c1880
 
Rene Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician, 1835
 
Cranmer 19th century. Artist: William Holl
 
Johann Gutenberg, German metalworker and inventor, 16th century, (1870)
 
Royal family as a happy group of dog lovers, 1937. Creator: Michael Chance
 
Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and theologian, (1833). Artist: H Meyer
 
Humphry Davy, English chemist, (1833). Artist: E Scriven
 
James Watt, Scottish engineer, (1833). Artist: CE Wagstaff
 
Dr Johnson, Goldsmith and Boswell, (1909). Artist: Eyre Crowe
 
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician
 
Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist, (c1850)
 
Captain Richard Burton, British explorer, writer, soldier and diplomat, 1876. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
 
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician and philanthropist, 1876. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
 
Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer, c1880
 
Benjamin Disraeli, 19th century British Conservative statesman and writer
 
Disraeli's first speech in the House of Commons, 19th century (c1905). Creator: Unknown
 
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II of England
 
WH Fox Talbot, British photography pioneer, 1901
 
Captain John Smith, Virginia colonist, 1624, (1893)
 
Harry Brodribb Irving (1870-1919), English actor, early 20th century. Artist: Vandyk
 
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), British Prime Minister, 1926
 
Jane Seymour (1509-1537), the third wife of King Henry VIII, 1851. Artist: B Eyles
 
Catherine Parr (1512-1548), the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, 1851. Artist: William Henry Mote
 
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), 1882