Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

It's #NationalHatDay, apparently! Among the 53,000 images of titfers of all shapes and sizes we have here @Mary_Evans are these satires from c1900 on the fashion for women to wear huge and enveloping hats. Postcard illustrations by 'B. L.' from the Grenville Collins collection

Photograph of Grade II listed National Theatre by Peter la Mare for @HistoricEngland showing the elevated walkways. The theatre - now with the #DuchessofSussex as patron - was designed by architects Denys Lasdun & Peter Softley & is a fine example of #brutalist #architecture

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light". Wise words from Jennie Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (and in her latter years, Mrs Cornwallis-West) born #OTD 1845, who was a portraitist's dream.

#Happybirthday to singing superstar & multi-award winner Dame Shirley Bassey. Known for her powerful voice & for singing the theme songs to 3 James Bond films, her career has spanned 6 decades. Here she is looking impossibly glamorous, in 2000. © The Stephen Bourne Collection

Born #otd 1947, #DavidBowie - singer, songwriter, writer, actor, effortlessly cool and beautiful human being. Here are just four of the 1300+ images we have of him in our archives. From the Ronald Grant, Everett and StudioCanal Collections @Mary_Evans #filmarchive

'You'd be tickled pink if you could see me now' by American #pinup artist #MerlinEnabnit, published #OTD in The Sketch, 1940. If only we all felt ready to don a pink swimsuit on the 3rd January.

#otd 1914, British and German troops fraternise on the field of battle on Christmas Eve, greeting each other and exchanging goodwill, and are even photographed together. Drawing by A C Michael from The Illustrated London News 9 Jan 1915 © Illustrated London News Ltd @Mary Evans

Off to a panto over the #Christmas holidays? #otd 1930, flyer for Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield which included a harlequinade which was a rarity at this date. From our fabulous Michael Diamond collection @Mary_Evans #behindyou #panto #thighslapping #cinderella

Look, we know you're not all feeling it so, this is for you... (from the Land of Lost Content archive)

Inside a gipsy caravan, Latimer Road by W. H. Overend, published in The Illustrated London News #OnThisDay #OTD in 1879