The Defence of Basing House portable computer Portrait of Sir John Berry

Portrait of Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs (1882-1963) who played cricket for Surrey and England

the Boat Race featured a match between teams from the Universities of Oxford and Harvard

and the 1865 Budget looming

Norse explorer Thorvald Eriksson fighting Native Americans

New Ireland is an island off the north-east coast of New Guinea

The Defence of Basing House portable computer Portrait of Sir John Berry'The Defence of Basing House', 1640s, (19th century). Scene from a mural fresco by Charles West Cope in the Peers Corridor, Palace of Westminster, showing the Cavaliers fighting the Parliamentary Army near Basingstoke. Illustration from Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905).