The 52 negatives show Scott and his team setting off for the South Pole at the expedition base camp. They have now been sold for £36,000 at auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, to an unnamed buyer.
These stunning images capture the moments British troops enjoyed at home during WWI. The pictures show the soldiers arriving at London Victoria Train station, greeted by their family, in 1916.
Albums that were gifted to Queen Victoria to give insight into 19th Century Indian life are being displayed in Getty Images Gallery, London, to celebrate 70 years of Indian independence.
Ken Watson, 89, from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, pictured, had been posted to Australia. He was in Sydney on VJ Day and remembers 'there were lots of sailors dancing with girls'.
A haunting set of photos of women dressed in colourful kimonos staring out of cages provides an insight into the fascinating lives of the Japanese prostitutes of Yoshiwara.
Between 1930-1934, a progressive era in Hollywood had a relaxed code of censorship which allowed sin to rule the movies.writes author Mark Vieira in new book Forbidden Hollywood,
These are the fascinating photographs inside the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania which aimed to wipe out the Native American culture by 'assimilating' children between 1879 and 1918.
Photographer Eugene Atget dedicated much of his life to capturing street scenes of Paris as it was transformed from a crowded medieval city into the modern metropolis it is today.
The American Civil War, fought between 1861 and 1865, claimed 620,000 lives - nearly as many American casualties as every other war fought by the United States combined.
A series of incredible portraits of scandal-hit Victorian performers charts the rise of celebrity culture and continued fascination with the lives of the rich and famous.
The images, taken between 1878 and 1910, were captured at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France.
Elizebeth Friedman (main, left) a married Quaker mother of two, was one of the FBI's secret weapons as a cryptologist in the World Wars and against organized crime, turning a keen eye to codes (inset)
While gestures of goodwill spread along the Western Front, the festivities stopped half-a-mile short of where Private Percy Huggins and Sergeant Tom Gregory were on duty in Rue De Bois, France.
In May 1929, Irish born Lady Mary Heath was met by thousands after becoming the first person to fly the length of Africa solo. Eleven years later she died, an alcoholic, after falling from a tram.
Black and white photographs show British-born Hélène of Orléans escaping her unhappy marriage to an Italian prince by touring Africa.
A new book called 100 Years of Tattoos features tattooed men and women across the decades. It includes flapper girls, US serviceman and tattooed world record breaker Janet 'Rusty' Skuse.
The so-called 'Ravensbruck Rabbits' had their bones broken, muscles removed, and limbs amputated - without painkillers - in a series of inhumane experiments after Hitler's friend died.
Fascinating images from Frenchman Francois Pommery, taken during visits in 1969 and 1974, reveal a nation of beautiful vistas and welcoming people, happy to have their pictures taken.
Youngsters across America including Pennsylvania and Boston were pictured around 1910 shucking oysters and picking their way through rubbish at a dump looking for trinkets to sell.
Jared Enos, a student from North Kingston, Rhode Island, spent up to six hours digitally coloring each iconic picture, dated from 1864 to 1910, to give a fresh look at the America frontier period.
