Read A History of Britain, Volume 3 Online
Authors: Simon Schama
The Maharajah Duleep Singh
, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1854.
Interior of the Sekundra Bagh courtyard, Lucknow, after the slaughter of 2000 rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment, photograph by Felice Beato, 1858.
The execution of the Delhi mutineers, photograph by Felice Beato,
c
. 1858.
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, photograph by Jabez Hughes, 1876–8.
William Gladstone rests from his tree-felling in the grounds of his country house at Hawarden,
c
. 1890.
An evicted family in Glenbeigh, Ireland, 1888.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton as viceroy of India, Calcutta, 1877.
Gandhi in London,
c
. 1913.
Lord Randolph Churchill
, by Edwin Long,
c
. 1888.
Lady Randolph Churchill
, sketch by John Singer Sargent,
c
. 1880.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill of the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars, 1895.
During the Boer War in South Africa, Winston acted as chief war correspondent on the
Morning Post
, 1899.
On Budget Day, 1910, Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, head for parliament, accompanied by Lloyd George’s wife, Margaret (far left), and his private secretary, Mr Clarke (far right).
A family living in a one-room slum in London’s East End, 1912.