Images Dated 21st April 2008

Florence Nightingale - Pioneer

Florence Nightingale - Pioneer of modern nursing, a writer and a noted statistician: 12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910. Photograph shows her wearing a shawl and holding a letter, both sent to her by H.M Queen Victoria

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Anton Chekhov with actors

Anton Chekhov with actors of the Moscow State Art Theatre in 1899 from l. to r standing.: Vishnevsky, Luzhski, Niemirovich Danchenko, Knipper, Stanislavsky, Roksanova, Nikolaeva, Andreiev, . and from l. to r. sitting: Rayevskaya, Artyom, Chekhov, Lilina, Tikhomirov, and Meyerhold. Russian playwright. Pre-Bolshevik Russia. Writer. photographic postcard

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Central London and

Central London and its literary associations. Illustrated map shows where famous writers and authors lived and worked: Keats, Charles Lamb, H.G. Wells, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Pepys, William Thackeray, Kipling, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Du Maurier. From advertisement for Dunlop tyres

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