🔎 Find an ILN Article
This is a collection of subjects and articles that I have researched from my collection of the Illustrated London News.
The subjects have been selected because they interest me and because I believe they may also be of interest to other people exploring the history recorded in the pages of the ILN.
This is a growing list. New articles will be added as I research, photograph, scan and publish more material.
My ILN Articles – A–Z
A
Afghanistan 2nd Anglo Afghan war coming soon
Australia.
(under construction)
The Aircraft
(1950+)
Anaglyphs
(3D images in 1924)
B
Boer War
(1899)
Bolshevism
(1919)
Books
(ILN)
BP Adverts
(1963/64)
BP Ethyl Ads
(1933/38)
Burns
(Robert)
C
Cars
(Motor Shows 1948/49s)
Cars
(Motor Shows 1950s)
Cars
- World of Motoring (1957/60)
Cars
- World of Motoring (1958/59)
Cathedrals
(1895 UK)
Chartists
(Riots 1842)
Chess
(problems)
Chesterton
(ILN)
Chinadevelop
(ILN)
Christmas since
(1842)
Cinema 1954
(World of...)
Cinema 1955
(World of...)
Cinema 1950s
(World of...)
Cinema late 1950s to early 60s
(World of...)
Cinema more early 60s
(World of...)
Clubs
(1922 London)
Coal Pits Horrors
(1840s)
Computer
(1949 1st)
Crimea
(1853 lead up to War)
Crimea
(1854 War) Battle of the Alba
Colour Printing
(a plate - 1911)
Cotton Famine
(1862–64)
D
E
Electricity
(1927 – Daily Life)
Engraving
(wood 1844)
Everest
(Mt. 1953)
Edinburgh Festival
(1st 1947)
Edinburgh Festival
(1948)
Edinburgh Festival
1949 – existing link in original list
Eva Peron
(1947)
Exhibition
(Great, 1851)
F
Famine
(Irish 1845–1853)
Festival
(Britain 1951)
Franklin
(Expedition 1846)
The French Revolution
(1848)
Food Facts
(1940 Rationing)
G
In
an English Garden
by Clarence Elliott
Gilbert & Sullivan
(English Opera)
Gold Emboss
(bound covers)
Great Eastern
(ship 1857)
Guinness 1939
(adverts)
Guinness – old
(adverts)
Guinness 1970
(Labels)
H
I
ILN
(Began 1842)
ILN
(Christmas)
ILN – Summer
(Issues)
ILN Index 1
(Year)
ILN – different
(Mastheads)
ILN – Nov. 22
(read 1856)
ILN – Mar 15
(read 1856)
India
(Map 1857)
Inflation
(Hyper 1924)
Isle of Man
(Victorian)
Israel 1948
(1st Arab War)
Interactive
(testing)
J
Japan Aug 1945
(Atom bomb)
Japan
(1851 ILN)
Jerusalem
(Panoramic Map 1948)
K
Kinema World
(Cinema 1927)
Korean
(1951 war)
L
Lancaster
(Gazette from 1802)
Lancaster
(engravings 1860s)
Large City Views
(19th century)
Livingstone
(1857 – Dr. meets Stanley)
M
Maori War, first
(1845–47)
Matabili
(Matabele 1896)
Miscellaneous
(1933)
N
New Hartley Pit
(disaster 1862)
New Zealand
(1st Maori War 1845)
O
Occupation Census
(1841)
Occupation Census
(1851)
Olympics
(1908)
P
Palestine
(1936-1939)
Palestine 1946
(1946)
Palestine 1947
(1947)
Palestine/Israel
(1st Arab Israel War 1948)
Pantomime
(100+ years of illustrations)
Piano – its History
(1927)
Patents Office UK, curiousities of.
(Office 1908 - 1920s)
Princess Alice 1878
(disaster on the Thames – 600+ dead)
Q
Quintinshill
(Rail disaster – Wikipedia)
Quintinshill
(see 1915)
R
Radio
(1923 Notes)
Railway
(1846 Lancaster)
Railway information
(ILN 1842–1848)
Rhine
(1846 Panorama)
Russia
(1917 Revolution)
S
The World of Science
Early 1950s
Scott and Shackleton
(1901)
Stage Origins
(1909)
Shakespearean Characters
(1909)
Shakespeare
(celebrations)
Ships from 1842
(ILN)
Songs 19th C.
(English)
Spanish Civil War
(1936–1939)
Special Issues
(ILN)
Shell Ads
(1935 to 1938 humour)
T
Tay Bridge
(disaster 1879)
Theatre
(1920 – World of...)
Theatre
(1954 – World of...)
Theatre
(1955 – World of)
Theatre
(1950s – World of)
Theatre
(More 1950s – World of)
Titanic
(disaster)
Tutankhamen 1922
(Tutenkhamun)
U
Ukraine
(historical)
USA
(1918 – WW1)
Map of United States 1861
(1861)
USA Civil War
(war)
V
Victoria Cross
(1857)
Victorian Adverts
(adverts)
W
War Crimes
(WW2)
Women's World
(1923 – World)
WW1
(war)
WW2
(war)
WW2 VE Day
(war)
WW2 VJ Day
(war)
X
Xmas Covers
(from 1842)
Y
Z
Zulu
(1879 war)
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