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  • Mr. Philip Snowden says: "I believe that the drink traffic is one of the greatest evils which curse our land to-day" / issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "At the best alcohol is an expensive luxury; at the worst it is a terrible poison; in between it is a dangerous drug." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "In the light of modern science alcohol stands condemned as the greatest co-operating factor for the production of damaged lives." / Dr. Courtenay C. Weeks, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "I have met plenty of men who have lost their situations because they drank : find me the man who has lost his because he didn't." / The Rev. Canon A. H. Sewell. M.A. (Bristol) ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "It would be simply impossible for a man who drinks to be a scout : keep off the liquor from the very first ; make up your mind to have nothing to do with it." : from "Scouting for boys." / Lt. Gen. Sir Robert baden-Powell ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • AIDS and the church as a healing community : the Geneva consultation: June 1986 / Christian Action on AIDS, The World Council of Churches.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • A procession to St. Mary's Church, Oxford by the convocations of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and the burning of the bones of Protestant theologians in Cambridge. Line engraving by Myers.
  • Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a church. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Foochow (Fuzhou), Fukien province, China: a church. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • The Virgin sets aside her Bible as the angel appears, holding out his hand and bearing lilies. Engraving after F. Barocci (?).
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who stands before a lectern. Engraving after F. Zuccaro.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.