EditorialNegative - Independent Order of Rechabites Band, Geelong, Victoria, 1908, Members of a brass band. Members of the I.O.R. (Independent Order of Rechabites) Band of Geelong in 1908. The I.O.R. was a friendly society for the temperance movement, which adv...
EditorialA Scheme for a New East India Company. The East India Company was founded in 1600 for the purpose of trading in South-East Asia, but its monopoly in that region soon raised concerns in England about the company’s influence. This anonymous treatise in...
EditorialA Scheme for a New East India Company. The East India Company was founded in 1600 for the purpose of trading in South-East Asia, but its monopoly in that region soon raised concerns in England about the company’s influence. This anonymous treatise in...
EditorialA Plea for the Constitution. The political philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, circulated A Plea for the Constitution to influential friends and members of the British government in 1803. Bentham urged the abandonment of convict transportation to penal coloni...
EditorialA Sermon on Charity (possibly the Conversion of Saint Anthony), Oil on wood, 33 1/2 x 23 in. (85.1 x 58.4 cm), Paintings, Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painter (ca. 1520?25), This panel may represent Saint Anthony listening to a reading from the Go...
Editorial[The Averted Head - A Study in Flesh Tones], 1899, Platinum print, 16.5 x 10.5 cm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.), Photographs, Joseph T. Keiley (American, 1869?1914), Lawyer turned amateur photographer, Keiley was involved in establishing the Photo-Secession, wh...
EditorialGLADSTONE, William Ewart (Liverpool Hawarden ,1809-1898). British statesman. Conservative MP (1832), went to the Liberal Party (1852) and was Minister of Finance (1852-1855 and 1859-1866). He advocated free trade, electoral reform and the Autonomy of ...
EditorialGLADSTONE, William Ewart (Liverpool Hawarden ,1809-1898). British statesman. Conservative MP (1832), went to the Liberal Party (1852) and was Minister of Finance (1852-1855 and 1859-1866). He advocated free trade, electoral reform and the Autonomy of ...