One of the most renowned and celebrated photographers of Northern England, best-known for her pictures documenting the communities in her home city of Manchester on the cusp of seismic social change during the middle of the twentieth century.

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Negative Archive

A truly unique photographic resource: Founded by Joyce Dixon as a photographic studio in 1934 (supplying photographs for Fleet Street features), Barnaby's soon started to acquire collections and represent individual photographers' work. Many of the hundreds of Barnaby's contributors are now represented by Mary Evans Picture Library. The photographs cover specific subject areas such as the D-Day landings, the Blitz, British topograghy, the 1951 Festival of Britain and the Swinging Sixties.

Collector John Barrett's photographic images span the first 30 years of the 20th century, and are the original photographic prints used in the picture book The Pageant of the Century published in 1933 by Odhams Press. By a stroke of luck, we have this book in the Mary Evans archive, and though the title might seem a little grandiose when it covers only the first third of the 1900s, it's nevertheless an engaging record of the new era of possibility.

Illustrations with a particular focus on fairytales

H.M. Bateman was a British artist and cartoonist known for finding the humorous side to almost anything. The world was his inspiration and he was particularly known for comically exaggerated reactions and social gaffes of the upper class. His family and the war also generated inspiration and he was frequently commissioned to provide artwork for magazines such as The Tatler.

A collection of personal memories which are now a fascinating archive, chronicling the life and observations of an upper-middle class industrialist as he went about his daily life in Edwardian England.

Pauline Baynes is best-known for her book illustrations, particularly the magical pictures accompanying the Narnia Chronicles and novels by J. R. R. Tolkein, as well as hundreds of covers mostly for Puffin Books. She also created many illustrations for the ILN.

This is a terrific set of photographs dating from 1903 to the 1940s, and chronicles the way in which fitness was becoming an acknowledged and integral part of education for a growing number of women during this period.

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Illustrations from Catholic magazine, Le Pelerin

The Enfield Poltergeist case

Andrew shoots photographs which document life in Cornwall with wit, humour and an insatiable eye for the quirks and characters of everyday life.He also built up an international reputation over four decades, producing stock library photographs, supplying photography to the national press and in so doing capturing the general public, politicians, celebrities and members of the royal family.

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Photographic, local news and postcards

Late Victorian and Edwardian Lantern slides

A historian and writer specialising in black British heritage and culture, and a founder member of the Black and Asian Studies Association, Stephen has amassed a fascinating archive of photographs and ephemera relating to black entertainers and personalities in the worlds of theatre, music, cinema and television.

With a natural flair for photography that has made him one of the highest ranked amateur photographers in the world, Tony was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and over the years won over four hundred prizes for his work.

These appealing and colourful drawings for children feature animals as their mainstay. The woodland creatures in the watercolours Molly Brett paints often take on human roles, but retain an essential naturalism borne out of long study from life.

The British Caribbean History Collection is a superb resource centred on a wonderful set of photographs by Esmel May Woma taken in the 1960s, when Esmel arrived in Nottingham from the Caribbean to study to be a nurse. The photos within the collection have a feeling of relaxed spontaneity and capture the relationship between the Afro-Caribbean people and their white British hosts in an intimate chronicle of this rapidly-changing time. The wider collection also features the lives of a British Caribbean family in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, in Britain and overseas on travels in Oman, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Jamaica.

British Pathé's Time to Remember Stills Collection represents the best of its archival content, covering the years 1896-1945. Unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance, the stills are a never-before seen record of key moments, earth-shattering events, famous figures, as well as fashions and fads through the decades.

The Brooklands Museum Collection documents the construction of the racing track and the history of motor racing, flying and cycling at Brooklands, and also includes great shots of Blue Bird and Malcolm Campbell at Daytona Beach in 1935.

Travel photography highlighting historical sites and places around the world with a particular emphasis on Asian culture.

A 16th century manor house in Tottenham which operated as a progressive school for boys in the 19th century, became a museum in 1906, exploring the history of the areas now making up the London Borough of Haringey. Due to its association with Rowland Hill, it also has a terrific collection on postal history and the Royal Mail.

Artwork by Balthasar Nebot

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Artist specialising in UFO imagery and alien encounters

Rare supernatural and ghost photography

A comprehensive collection of aircraft from early planes to contemporary aviation