South Devon Railway: Landslip near the Parson and Clerk Rock, Dec. 29th 1852

From Pentonville Road Looking West, London, Evening

Van Gogh: The Adventure of Becoming an Artist Opens at Kyusyu National Museum

[A three dimension life size reproduction of Vincent van Gogh's "The Bedroom" is on display during a preview held ahead of the exhibition of his works at the Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, southwestern Japan. The Dutch post-Impressionist painter's 36 oil paintings along with 32 prints and drawings are touring three Japanese cities of Tokyo, Dazaifu and Nagoya from October to April 2011 for a series of exhibitions, marking the 120th anniversary of his death. AP Photo/Kyodo News, Kazufumi Nagao]

Karl Marx

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need”

Thomas Benjamin Kennington - The Pinch of Poverty, 1891

Emma Brownlow King - Foundling girl at Christmas Dinner, 1877

Charles Frederick Lowcock - Victorian interior with seated lady

Kate Greenaway - Supper, from 'Christmas in Little Peopleton Manor' in Illustrated London News, Christmas, 1879

Railway Kiosk

The railways enabled both large-scale and much quicker distribution of newspapers from London. By 1875 the train service for the London newspapers left Euston at 5.15am, and arrived in Manchester by 10 o’clock. It was not quite a world of instant news but it had been a great transformation.