Read A History of Britain, Volume 3 Online
Authors: Simon Schama
Thomas Carlyle, photo-portrait by Julia Margaret Cameron,
c
. 1866.
Sir John Herschel, photo-portrait by Julia Margaret Cameron,
c
. 1867.
Her Majesty The Queen laughing
, a Jubilee photo-portrait, 21 June 1887.
The Match Girl Strike Committee, 1888.
Queen Victoria’s funeral cortege at Paddington Station, London, 1901.
Exterior façade of the Victoria Memorial Monument, Calcutta.
Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Curzon with First Day’s Bag in Camp near Nekonda, Warangal District, Hyderabad
, photograph by Lala Deen Dayal, 1902.
A starving family in India,
c
. 1900.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
, by John Partridge, 1849–53.
Sir Charles Trevelyan
, engraving by D.J. Pound after John Watkins,
c
. 1845.
The Emporium of Taylor & Co. in Calcutta
, by Sir Charles D’Oyly,
c
. 1825–8.
Rocks along the coast of Connemara mark the graves of infants who died during the Great Famine, 1845–9.
Sikh soldiers from Hodson’s Horse regiment, photograph by Felice Beato, 1858–9.
James Ramsay, 1st Marquis of Dalhousie
(detail), by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847.