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Engraved black and white engraving of Robert Banks Jenkinson former Prime Minister dressed in thick, buttoned-up frock-coat, silk cravat hands clasped in silent submission

Banks Holiday (groan!)

#4827 Robert Banks Jenkinson Earl of Liverpool The closest to a Bank Holiday theme – 2nd Earl Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson...

Apr 21

Black and white engraving of Christ's body being brought down from the cross

Easter Art

#4709 Christs Descent from the Cross What will be three daily images selected for the Easter weekend. One of history’s (and humanity’s)...

Apr 18

18th century engraving of Odiam Castle ruins with two figures in tricorn hats observing the relic, one pointing with his walking cane

No Odious Castle, This

#4237 Odiham Castle The favourite of many, Odiham Castle is every inch the medieval ruin, and is one of the oldest. Known also as King...

Apr 15

Vintage print from Punch magazine showing man in battered top-hat pulling a cart uphill as a ploice constable salutes and a dog in a ruff watches perplexed

London Laments?

#4545 London Local Politics_Satire Long before he became the UK’s 48th Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery (d.1929) was the subject of much...

Apr 12

18th century engraving of Holy Ghost Chapel ruins in Hampshire with thatched stone building to left, gate straight ahead and solitary figure on horse-back exiting to left

Hampshire Delight

#4233 Holy Ghost Chapel Hampshire Evocatively named Holy Ghost Chapel in Basingstoke, Hampshire, captured here in 1772, harbours many a...

Apr 9

Ashe House near Axminster, a large Tudor house in Devonshire stone with iron railings surrounding

Drake's Cottage?

#4501 Ashe House Devon Ashe House in Musbury Devon was once a majestic Tudor pile built in the mid-1580s but badly burned by Royalists in...

Apr 6

Lord Edward Fitzgerald is captured in a fatal arrest for High Treason. The flash of a pistol shot and the Lord's tussle with another would-be capture in the bedroom of a harbouring friend

Irish Stew

#4812 Capture of Lord Edward Fitzgerald for High Treason Lord Fitzgerald b1763, swapped nobility for revolution. From England to France...

Apr 2

Princess Charlotte of Wales in robes and ornate feathery headgear painted before 1817

National Grief

#4825 Princess Charlotte of Wales Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only daughter of the future George IV and Caroline of Brunswick,...

Mar 31

Britain's only assassinated Prime Minister being shot through the chest in a dramatic pose

An Unenviable Record

#4830 Spencer Perceval Assassination Britain’s only serving PM to be assassinated was Spencer Perceval, aged 49, shot though the chest on...

Mar 28

Engraving of the Chapter House ruins at Elgin Cathedral, Moray, Scotland

Elgin Marvels

#4603 Elgin Cathedral Chapter House The romantic ruins of Elgin Cathedral in Moray Inverness never fail to rouse up the past. Founded...

Mar 25

Gainsborough's portraits of actress Miss Linley and her brother, in monochrome

Gainsborough Glamour

#4350 Gainsborough - Miss Linley & Her Brother Artist Thomas Gainsborough (d1788) needs little introduction - think of ‘Blue Boy’ or ‘Mr...

Mar 22

Collage of six coats of arms of different corporations in London. Brightly coloured and detailed.

Livery London

The proud livery companies of London first touched the city nearly 900 years ago. But did you know they still thrive? Joined by modern...

Mar 19

Four engraved scenes of Jerusalem from circa 1890s

Sadness

#4735 Scenes (4) of Jerusalem Sadly never far from grave news, the ‘Holy City’ of Jerusalem (Yerushaláyim/Al-Quds) perpetuates its...

Mar 16

Wood block print of man chopping the human body into pieces which birds fly away with

Printing Money

#4705 Caxton 1 William Caxton brought the recently invented printing press to England in the 1470s and soon produced exquisite pages like...

Mar 13

Blacksmith bends to shoe a sleek black horse in Landseer's famous painting

Horse Power

#4507 Shoeing_Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Landseer’s subjects deliver social history, animal husbandry and the power of the horse that...

Mar 10

Three Victorian peasant children view a book on their way to school along a country track

Putting it off...

Edward Thompson Davis’ evocative illustration of Victorian life

Mar 7

Monochrome etching of St Mary-le-Bow church and neighbouring tenements in London in the 18th century

"Oranges and lemons..."

"I do not know, says the Great Bell of Bow"

Mar 4