May Gallery

Womens rights

Miss Ogston thoughtfully carries a whip when she goes to demonstrate during Lloyd Georges speech to the Womens Liberal Association at the Albert Hall Date: 5 December 1908

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Massena - a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy

Massena was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, built in the 1890s. A member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, ordered in response to the British Royal Sovereign class. She was named in honour of Marshal of France Andre Massena. Date: circa 1905

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Alexandria, Egypt - Pompeys Column and Fort Napoleon

Alexandria, Egypt - Pompeys Column and Fort Napoleon (where Napoleon Bonaparte left behind one of his cannons, after his short occupation of Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century). Date: circa 1901

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