Public merry-making posters & prints

Public merry-making on the Admiralty Square in Saint Petersburg, First half of the 19th cent Karl Petrovich Beggrov

Public merry-making in Ostankino, 1840s School Russian

Public merry-making at Maryina Roshcha in Moscow, 1840s 18th century Anonymous

Public merry-making at Maryina Roshcha in Moscow, 1852 Anonymous

Amorous, clamorous, uproarious and glorious, all coming from a public dinner Theodore Lane

The Savage Club, Adelphi Terrace, London Joel

A merry-go-round, part of a bank holiday carnival on Hamstead Heath, London Anonymous

A Merry Christmas Frank Dadd

Breathing Spaces for London, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, Open to the Public on Sundays Anonymous

The two bridges at Blackfriars, London Anonymous

His Dimples How Merry! William Roger Snow

Peasants Dancing and Merry-Making Before a Tavern, a Walled Town Beyond, Louis Joseph (1731-98) Watteau

The Commission on Society Tom Merry

Public Dinners George Cruikshank

A labourer reads a book in a library Anonymous

'The Flask' ale house, Highgate Village, London McLeish

Trimaculated Wrasse, Labrus trimaculatus E. Donovan

The Gentleman's Magazine, 1731 English School

Aerial combat on the Western Front, World War I, 1914-1918 Unknown

The Story of Sedan: Fighting His Battles O'Er Again. 1871 Anonymous

An Elegant Company Merry-making in an interior Christoffel Jacobsz van der Lamen

A group of monks at the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy Anonymous

Chinese family on a cart Sport & General

Merry-making Outside a Tavern Georg Emanuel Opiz

First issue of 'The Tatler, 1709 English School

Lenox, Massachusetts John Warner (after) Barber

Weekly News, 1622 English School

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author of Tanglewood Tales Rischgitz Collection

Walter Scott Edwin Henry Landseer

Newsstands Selling Publications Anonymous

The Curmudgeons' Christmas Anonymous

A train driver, London Anonymous

Baroness Orczy, British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin Bassano Studio

Trial of William Palmer, at the Central Criminal Court, May 1856, for Poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley English School

A woman tram-conductor, Chile Brown & Dawson

English Merry-Making in the Fourteenth Century: Tilting at the Quintain Anonymous