Lewis Carroll self-portrait, aged 24 at that time
            
    
     
                    
                    
    
    
    The George V King's Christmas broadcast, 1934
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Imperial Conference: George V and the prime ministers of the Empire
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Wedding of George V of the United Kingdom and Princess Mary of Teck
            
    
     
                    
                    
    
    
    King George V of the United Kingdom as a boy
            
    
     
                    
                    
    
    
    Conan Doyle in 1930, the year of his death, with his son Adrian
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Façade of Undershaw with Doyle's children, Mary and Kingsley, on the drive
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Arthur Conan Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    G.K. Chesterton at the age of 17
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Kipling late in his life, portrait by Elliott & Fry
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Rudyard Kipling (right) with his father John Lockwood Kipling
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Victor Hugo on the Rock of the Exiles
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Marx with his daughters and Engels
            
    
     
                    
                    
                    
    
    
    Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Oscar Wilde by W. & D. Downey of Ebury Street
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Kipling (second from left) as rector of the University of St Andrews
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Oscar Wilde by Elliott & Fry
            
    
     
                    
                    
    
    
    Twain in academic regalia for acceptance of the D.Litt. degree awarded him by Oxford University
            
    
     
                    
                    
    
    
    Victoria in her official Diamond Jubilee photograph by W. & D. Downey
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Queen Victoria and the Munshi Abdul Karim
            
    
     
                    
                    
    
    
    Albert, Victoria and their nine children
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Earliest known photograph of Victoria, here with her eldest daughter, Victoria
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Unveiling  of the Darwin Statue at the former Shrewsbury School building
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Titanic at Southampton docks, prior to departure
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Titanic leaving Belfast for her sea trials on 2 April
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    RMS Titanic ready for launch
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Titanic Launch (unfinished superstructure)
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Elizabeth II and Haile Selassie
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Agatha Christie as a child
            
    
     
                    
    
    
    Alfred Hitchcock and Reville wedding