An Advert for the London police force in the 1930s for “hefty women” but “must be fairly good looking”

When hotels used to have to put up signs explaining that electricity is safe and not to be feared

A selection of images from1957, Paris.

Marseille’s Transporter Bridge (and Restaurant) inaugurated in 1905 and destroyed in 1944

This gold and enamel ring was made in Italy in the 17th-century. Diamonds are set in the skull’s eye sockets and nose, and in the crossbones. Memento mori rings – from the Latin ‘remember that you must die’ – were intended to remind the wearer of the brevity of life.