Painter, writer, photographer and political activist Caroline Coon founded the Civil rights organisation Release in the 1960s and in the 1970s documented emergence of anti-Hippie punk scene including ...

Born in Ankara to a British diplomat, Joe Strummer (real name: John Graham Mellor) spent parts of his early childhood in Cairo, Mexico City and Bonn before boarding at a school in Surrey. He attended ...

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Ulla Ditlef (née Nielsen), Lady Hyde Parker (died 1998), Wife of Sir William Stephen Hyde Parker; daughter of Christian Ditlef Nielsen. Sitter in 2 portraits.

James Gillray was the leading satirist of the regency producing numerous biting and funny caricatures on politics, royalty and social life. The National Portrait Gallery owns copies of over ninety ...

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