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Nick Clegg [videos]

Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. An "Orange Book" liberal, Clegg served as a Member of Parliament for …

Westminster School

Nick Clegg attends the Je Suis Charlie rally with his wife Miriam González Durántez in Trafalgar Square, January 2015

Frederick Sykes [videos]

Air Vice Marshal Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes, was a British military officer and politician. — Sykes was a junior officer in the 15th Hussars before becoming interested in military aviation. He was the first Officer Commanding the Military Wing of the Royal Flying …

Major General Frederick Sykes c. 1918

Sykes in 1913 with some of his officers

The British Air Section at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919

Sir Frederick Sykes circa 1940

Sheffield City Council elections [videos]

Sheffield City Council elections usually take place by thirds, three years out of every four. Each of Sheffield's 28 wards is represented by three positions on the council, meaning there are usually 28 seats contested in each local election. 2004 saw new ward boundaries and therefore all seats …

Seat total for parties, 1973-2012

Popular vote numbers, 1973-2012

Popular vote share, 1973-2012

Douglas Vickers [videos]

Douglas Vickers was an English industrialist and politician. He was the son of Colonel Thomas Edward Vickers, owner and Director of the famous Sheffield firm Vickers, Sons & Co. Ltd. and Frances Mary Vickers, née Douglas. — He became Director of the family …

Vickers as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1909

Douglas Vickers, John Singer Sargent, 1914

The Vickers family plot at Brookwood Cemetery

David Blunkett [videos]

David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, is a former British politician, having represented the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency for 28 years through to 7 May 2015 when he stepped down at the general election. Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of …

Blunkett in 2015

Blunkett in 2009

Samuel Holberry [videos]

Samuel Holberry was a prominent Chartist activist. — Early years — Holberry was born in Gamston, Nottinghamshire, the youngest of nine children. In 1832 he joined the army, leaving in 1835 and moving to Sheffield, where began working as a distiller, and married …

The grave of Holberry in Sheffield General Cemetery.

Plaque in the Sheffield Peace Gardens

W. C. Leng [videos]

Sir William Christopher Leng, known as W. C. Leng was a newspaper publisher in Sheffield. — Life — Leng was born in Hull on 25 January 1825. He was oldest son of Adam Leng of Hull, and Mary, daughter of Christopher Luccock, of Malton, architect. Sir John Leng …

Offices of the Sheffield Telegraph in 1898.

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Meg Munn [videos]

Margaret Patricia Munn is the first Independent Chair of the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Panel, — ProChancellor and Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Hallam University, Chair of the British Council's Society Advisory Group and Non-Executive Director of the …

Munn attending the Policy Network Progressive Governance Conference 2009

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Howard Vincent [videos]

Colonel Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent, known as Howard Vincent or C. E. Howard Vincent, was a British soldier, barrister, police official and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1908. — Early life and education — Vincent was …

Sir C. E. Howard Vincent

Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1883.

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (politician) [videos]

Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was an American-born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1902. — Early life — Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Sophia …

"The Patriotic League" Ashmead-Bartlett as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1882

Clive Betts [videos]

Clive James Charles Betts is a British Labour Party politician and former economist, who was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 to 2010, when he became Member of Parliament for Sheffield South East. — Early life — Betts was born on 13 January 1950 …

Image: Official portrait of Mr Clive Betts crop 2

Thomas Worrall Casey [videos]

Thomas Worrall Casey was a British Liberal politician and Trade Union leader. — Background — He was born in the Intake district of Sheffield, the son of William and Jemima Ann Casey. He was educated at Gleadless Church School. He was married in 1894. He had …

Thomas Casey

H. A. L. Fisher [videos]

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Board of Education in David Lloyd George's 1916 to 1922 coalition government. — Background and education — Fisher was born in London, the eldest …

Image: Herbert Fisher

Gill Furniss [videos]

Gillian Furniss is a British Labour Party politician and the member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough. — Early life and education — Furniss was born in Sheffield on 14 March 1957. She is the daughter of a Sheffield steel worker. She was educated at the …

Image: Gill Furniss in Firth Park

Louise Haigh [videos]

Louise Margaret Haigh is a British Labour politician. She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley at the 2015 general election, and was the youngest Labour member of that parliament. — Early life — Haigh grew up on Abbeydale Road, Sheffield, and now …

Image: Official portrait of Louise Haigh crop 2

Hallamshire (UK Parliament constituency) [videos]

Hallamshire was a Parliamentary constituency covering the Hallamshire district of England. The constituency was created in 1885 and abolished in 1918. It should not be confused with Sheffield Hallam. The seat was a large geographical area which in the west included the moors of the Pennines …

John Wadsworth

Fred Maddison [videos]

Frederick Maddison was a British trade unionist and Liberal politician. — Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Maddison studied in Kingston upon Hull before becoming a compositor. He joined the Typographical Association and soon rose in prominence, becoming President of the …

Frederick Maddison

Arthur Neal [videos]

Arthur Neal was a British politician. — Born in Sheffield, Neal attended Wesley College before becoming a solicitor. He was also the President of Sheffield's Chamber of Commerce. — Political career — Neal was elected to Sheffield City Council as a Liberal in …

Arthur Neal

Joseph Pointer [videos]

Joseph Pointer was a patternmaker who became a British Labour Party Member of Parliament. — Born in the Attercliffe district of Sheffield, Pointer became a convinced socialist early in his life, and joined the Independent Labour Party. He attended Ruskin College in …

Pointer in the 1910s

Sheffield Trades and Labour Council [videos]

The Sheffield Trades and Labour Council, usually known as the Sheffield Trades Council, is a labour organisation uniting trade unionists in Sheffield. — Precursors — The earliest recorded attempt to found an alliance of trade unions in the city is the "Sheffield Mechanical Trades Association" …

Image: Sheffield Trades Council logo

Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley [videos]

Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley PC, was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1916, shortly before he was raised to the peerage. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department …

"Sheffield". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1886.

Samuel Danks Waddy [videos]

Samuel Danks Waddy was an English politician. — He was born in Gateshead, the son of Samuel Dousland Waddy, a Methodist minister. The family soon moved to Sheffield and his father was instrumental in the founding of Wesley College in 1838 (and was Governor of the …

Samuel Danks Waddy.

G. H. B. Ward [videos]

George Herbert Bridges Ward, known as G. H. B. Ward or Bert Ward was an activist for walkers' rights and a Labour Party politician. — Born in central Sheffield, Ward worked as an engineer in a local steelworks. In 1900, he founded the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers, recognised …

Ward's Piece

Ethan Hawke [videos]

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer, and director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and a Tony Award. Hawke has directed three feature films, three Off-Broadway plays, and a documentary. He has also written three novels. — He made his film debut with …

Hawke in 2018

Hawke at the premiere of The Hottest State in Austin, Texas, September 2007

Hawke at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Hawke at the premiere of Before Midnight in Berlin, Germany, February 2013

Sovereign (British coin) [videos]

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Sovereign of Queen Mary I, c. 1553

A £1 note issued in 1814 by the Gloucester Old Bank

1817 sovereign of George III

Pistrucci's original sketch for the sovereign

Jamie Foxx [videos]

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Foxx at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Foxx promoting Stealth in July 2005.

Foxx's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Foxx in 2005

Vatican Museums [videos]

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Sculptures above the exits of museums

The New Wing, Braccio Nuovo built by Raffaele Stern

The Prima Porta Augustus

Tourists in the Pinacoteca Vaticana

Guinea (coin) [videos]

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Five Guinea coin, James II, Great Britain, 1688

Charles II

James II, with elephant and castle under the bust, 1686

George I: Quarter guinea (1718)

Rembrandt [videos]

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Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar (1659), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Prodigal Son in the Tavern, a self-portrait with Saskia, c. 1635

Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh, c. 1635

Rembrandt's son Titus, as a monk, 1660

Istanbul [videos]

Istanbul, formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historic center. Istanbul is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, straddling the Bosporus strait (which …

Clockwise from top: the Golden Horn between Karaköy and Sarayburnu within the historic areas; Maiden's Tower; a nostalgic tram on İstiklal Avenue; Levent business district with Dolmabahçe Palace; Ortaköy Mosque in front of the Bosphorus Bridge; and Hagia Sophia.

Constantine I

Remains of a Byzantine column of Byzantium's acropolis, located today within the Topkapı Palace complex.

The first Galata Bridge in the 19th century

Sharon Stone [videos]

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Sharon Stone at Celebrity Fight Night XXIII in Phoenix, Arizona.

Stone in France, 1991

Stone at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

Stone at Cannes in 2013

Stephen Curry [videos]

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Curry with the Warriors in 2017

Curry at the 2008 NCAA Tournament

Curry defends against Allen Iverson in 2009

Curry about to pass while being guarded by John Wall and Nenê of the Washington Wizards. Curry averaged 7.7 assists per game during the 2014–15 NBA regular season, good enough for sixth best in the league.

Jewel House [videos]

The Jewel House is a vault housing the British Crown Jewels in the Waterloo Block at the Tower of London. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and refurbished in 2012. Regalia have been kept in various parts of the Tower since the 14th century after a series of …

Entrance to the Jewel House

The Chamber of the Pyx, Westminster Abbey

The Imperial State Crown

A Scots Guards sentry outside the Jewel House

Henry IV of France [videos]

Henry IV, also known by the epithet Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of …

Henry III of France on his deathbed designating Henry IV of Navarre as his successor (1589)

Jeton with portrait of King Henri IV, made in Nuremberg (Germany) by Hans Laufer

Entrance of Henry IV in Paris, 22 March 1594, with 1,500 cuirassiers

Henry IV and Marie de Médicis

Javier Bardem [videos]

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. Bardem won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the 2007 Coen Brothers film No Country for Old Men. He has also received …

Javier Bardem at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018

Bardem at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011

Bardem with co-stars for the film Biutiful at Cannes 2010

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