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Gentlemen round a table at their club, smoking and drinking punch. Coloured mezzotint, late 18th century.

A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.

A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Pensioners of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, and others, celebrating the destruction of the Russian navy. Coloured lithograph, 1855.

A small man representing the press is holding a spoon with a gooseberry on it and feeding it to John Bull; representing worthless news stories in the British press during the summer. Process print after Ricardo Brook.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A girl in bed in a slum dwelling, Liverpool. Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, 1955.

A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).

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Pensioners of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, and others, celebrating the destruction of the Russian navy. Coloured lithograph, 1855.

A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A girl in bed in a slum dwelling, Liverpool. Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, 1955.

A barber reading political news from a newspaper to his client; in the background another man listens too. Mezzotint after T. Clater (?).