Taj Mahal from above

An aerial view of the Taj Mahal was one of the major attractions of the Imperial Airways– Empire Air Routes (England-India-Malaya-Australia)


The Soviet land, 1955

Jawaharlal Nehru had spent 16 days in the USSR, covering some 13,000km, on his first official tour to the country as the prime minister of India


Ellora, 1876

Engraving of the Kailas temple in Ellora, as printed in The Illustrated London News in 1876.


Imperial Airways

Imperialists. We owe them so much: cricket, parliamentary democracy, long haul air travel


Paris, 1783

Artist Louis-Alexander Bouteloup recorded the spectacle that surrounded the hydrogen balloon lift-off in Paris.