🔎 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
(listed in the original index)
Australia.
(under construction)
The Aircraft
(1950+)
Anaglyphs
(3D in 1924)
B
Boer War
(1899)
Bolshevism
(1919)
Books
(ILN)
BP Adverts
(1963/64)
BP Ethyl Ads
(1933/38)
Burns
(Robert)
C
Cars
(Motor)
Cathedrals
(1895 UK)
Chartists
(Riots 1842)
Chess
(problems)
Chesterton
(ILN)
Chinadevelop
(ILN)
Christmas since
(1842)
Cinema 1954
(World of...)
Cinema 1955
(World of...)
Clubs
(1922 London)
Coal Pits Horrors
(1840s)
Computer
(1949 1st)
Crimea
(1853 War)
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
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)
Palestine/Israel
(1st Arab Israel War 1948)
Pantomime
(100+ years)
Piano – its History
(1927)
Patents
(Office 1920s)
Princess Alice 1878
(disaster – 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
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
(1954 – World of...)
Theatre
(1955 – World of)
Titanic
(disaster)
Tutankhamen 1922
(Tutenkhamun)
U
Ukraine
(historical)
USA
(1918 – WW1)
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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