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Showing figures in Tudor costume

Southampton Players

Cuper's Bridge formed part of Cuper's Pleasure Gardens which operated between c1690 and c1760

(Picture) Michael Schumacher talking to the press at Silverstone

stands in a cockney garden

The Queen in her Store-room mb-width 2174 Showing figures in Tudor costume'The Queen in her Store room', 1859. At this time there was an ongoing struggle between France and Austria over Italian independence as the Italian states tried to rid themselves of despotic rulers. Britain was generally supportive of the Italian struggle but very suspicious of French involvement and intentions. Napoleon fought an only partly conclusive war with Austria to help achieve Italian independence of Austrian rule of some of its regions.