Cowper's Oak. Yardley Chase, Northamptonshire. 1906

Women on holiday in a camping coach at Sandsend, c 1936.

'Solar Spot', 1864.

Cartoon showing posible uses of the Great Eastern steam ship, 1858.

Templates from Crick and Watson's DNA molecular model, 1953.

Afterglow caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, 9 November 1883.

Perkin’s original mauve dye, 1856.

'Friar Laurence and Juliet', 1864.

Masonry courses, Bell Rock Lighthouse, c 1810.

Woman looking at the cockpit of a Mercedes-Benz racing car, Berlin, 1932.

Portobello Road Market, 1966.

Women workers, Gretna munitions factory, Scotland, 1918.