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FLO4995471: Volunteer Movement, Jones & Family under Canvass', 1862. Satirical print showing a Victorian family playing soldiers for the Volunteer Force, a part-time territorial army. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punchõs Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4835003: Apr. 04, 1953 - Seven Arrives from Korea: The seven men who have been interned in Korea for two years and eight months arrived by Hasting aircraft at the R.A.F Station, Abingdon today. They are CAPT: VYVYAN HOLT former British Minister in Seoul. Mr. Norman OWEN first Secretary of the British Minister in Seoul Mr. Philip Deane a war reporter; Father Thomas Quinlan the Irish Missionary; Commissioner Herbert Lord of the Salvation Army; Bishop Alfred Cooper an Anglican Missionary and Mr. George Blake British Vice Consul at Seoul / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4833775: Apr. 04, 1953 - Nine now dead in tube disaster. Nine people were known today to have died in the Central Line tube disaster at Stratford, the worst in the London's Underground history. It was the second coach of the Eeling Broadway-Epping train which took the brunt of the crash. The train ran into the rear of another train traveling from Greenford to Hainsult / Bridgeman Images