Images Dated 31st January 2006

The Maids of Taunton Kneeling before the Duke of Monmouth, 18th June 1685

XJF115646 The Maids of Taunton Kneeling before the Duke of Monmouth, 18th June 1685, Queen of Diamonds playing card from a set commemorating Monmouth's Rebellion (engraving) (b&w photo) by English School, (17th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

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1649 85, Colours, James Ii, James Scott, Playing Card, Presenting, Rebel, Somerset, Support

Why Shouldn't Girton Rink, When Cambridge Rows?, 1876. Artist: George Du Maurier

Why Shouldn't Girton Rink, When Cambridge Rows?, 1876 Lady students from Girton College on the towpath waving to crews rowing on the river Cam. The first residential college for women was founded in October 1869 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It relocated to Girton, Cambridge, in October 1873 and became Girton College. In 1876 female students were still a novelty in Cambridge. A week earlier the Cambridge eight had won the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race. In 1863 an American, James L Plimpton, patented a 4-wheeled roller-skate, the forerunner of today's skates, and it was not long before the lasting craze began in Britain. Cartoon from Punch. (London, 15 April 1876)

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Carbon microphone, invented in 1878 by David Edward Hughes, 1890

Carbon microphone, invented in 1878 by David Edward Hughes, 1890. The apparatus was said to be so sensitive that a fly walking on the sounding-board could be heard by an observer on a telephone several miles away. From Electricity in the Service of Man translated by R Wormell from the German of Alfred von Urbanitzky. (London, 1890)

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