Historical images

In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

Construction Workers Lunchtime 1931 St Johns Bridge N. Portland Oregon historic bw photo by Ray Atkeson

It was on June 28th 1914 that the Great War started, as it was known before World War II. Amazing historical photos showing the everyday lives of man during the first great war.

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This was the view as the iconic tower slowly climbed above Paris and straight into history.

One of the world’s leading colorists of historic photos fears she will be banned permanently from Facebook and Instagram after multiple suspensions of her

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40s, 50s, 60s & 70s on Instagram: “A girl licks ice cream and plays with the tip of the guns bayonet to try and elicit a reaction from a royal guard in Sweden in 1970.”

Photographer Thomas Annan captured Glasgow between the 1860s and 70s, at a time when the city had transformed and rapidly grown

AN amazing collection of British images has become available online for the first time. Over 150 years ago, a pioneering Victorian photographer called Francis Frith began a project that eventually …