Miners' safety lamp mb-artist Michelangelo_Buonarroti From the Maull & Polyblank

From the Maull & Polyblank series Photographic portraits of living celebrities

The Club was pro-Cromwell and on 30th January 1734 its provocative actions so infuriated people that they stoned the inn where the members were meeting

spousal rape was not recognized as a crime in most common law jurisdictions

Although he is depicted as a child in this cartoon

South-west view of Holy Cross Church

Miners' safety lamp mb-artist Michelangelo_Buonarroti From the Maull & PolyblankPlate 15 from the paper 'On the means of procuring a steady light in coal mines without the danger of explosion', by William Reid Clanny, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 200 205. Three figures showing an arrangement for keeping a candle flame alight in coal mines without the risk of fire damp explosion. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed 'I. Farey delin' {John Farey junior (1791