Pictures in History

British scientists with the miniature black hole singularity created as the ultimate weapon in World War One, 1918. It was never used.

An Italian soldier says a tearful farewell to his Austrian lover as he takes a train to the front, 1943.

Steve Jobs's MacBook after his assassination by agents of rival Samsung, 2011.

Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein and Clement Attlee at the controls of the first Enigma machine, 1944.

The original Teletubbies only lasted six episodes due to childrens' absolute terror of them, 1964.

A backstreet abortionist in Blackpool prepares herself, and her dog who will act as nurse, for an operation, 1951.

Folk singer Joan Baez on her successful mission to rescue POWs including John McCain in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1973.

Hunter S Thompson served a short stint in the US Air Force, bombing Kentucky, before being discharged in 1958

Crowds climbing into the first Glastonbury Festival to see headliners Arthur Askey, Glenn Miller and Hawkwind, 1939.

Audrey Hepburn about to snap a young fawn's neck and throw it on the pile with the rest, 1955.

Peter Sutcliffe, the "Fifth Beatle", left the band before they became famous but said he never regretted it, 1965.

Philadelphia's Roosevelt Boulevard was renamed Adolf Hitler Street after the Nazi leader's visit to the city, 1938.

The young Woody Guthrie singing This Land Is Your Land at the Oklahoma Dustbowl, 1932.

England's six-year-old Negro Queen issuing banknotes during the brief rule of the Mau Mau regime, 1953.

The Taj Mahal being removed, brick by brick, from its original Paris site to be rebuilt in India, 1724.

Madonna, before she was famous, performing at one of the Museum of Modern Art's Wednesday striptease evenings, 1981.

Locals in Hartlepool, England, try to help a beached German U-boat back into the sea, 1939.

James Earl Jones, banned from London clubs by their strict segregation laws, chose to socialise in costume, 1979.

The Kray Twins began their reign of terror by using a stolen elephant to extort protection from trams, 1960.

The 1920 steampunk reboot of Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1, known as Whistler's Mother, proved unpopular.