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John o Arnha choking a monster, beating him with a cudgel while other demons fly above and three witches stir a cauldron. The Kelpy tried we John to grapple, But Arn caught him by the thrapple
Taking dog for a walk along the seafront at ScarboroughAn elderly (and rather stern) couple take their dog for a walk along the seafront at North Bay, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Ethel and her young brother in fancy dressEthel and her younger brother in fine fancy dress costume - this scene is in part a satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period. Date: 1913
Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain pictured in familiar garb but without cigar, against a London skyline. Date: 1953
Ancient Quintain, Offham, Kent -- a medieval wooden post with a rotating arm, located on the village green, used in jousting and tilting. 1894
A Charlie or London Watchman. 1885
The Rombalds Moor Hermit, Old Yorkshire. 1881
Joseph Chamberlain, British Liberal politicianJoseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), British Liberal politician. 1904
Two men with dogs, hunting badgers in a wood. Date: circa 1820
Scene in the Square des Batignolles, Paris, FranceScene in the Square des Batignolles, 17th arrondissement, Paris, France, with a bandstand in the middle. Date: 1900s
Rue Brochant with covered market building, Paris, FranceRue Brochant with covered market building, 17th arrondissement, Paris, France. Date: 1910s
Willie Renfrew, works gatekeeper. circa 1890
Victorian scrap, an old English watchman. circa 1890
Victorian scrap, natives of Pomerania. circa 1890
Victorian scrap, a native of Crete. circa 1890
Studio photo, Lieutenant George, Cape Town, South AfricaStudio photo, Lieutenant George (surname not given), Cape Town, South Africa. 1901
A Pretty Fellow, London Swell
Photographs of Hippodrome Pogo Parade, October 1921Miss Mona Vivian and her " pogo platoon", performing for the Sketch in the Botanical Gardens although the Pogo Parade was performing at the Hippodrome at the time. Date: 1921
Norwich Thorpe railway station, Norwich, NorfolkA busy scene in front of Norwich Thorpe railway station, Norwich, Norfolk, which opened in 1844. Date: 1845
Mr Libbys Corned BeefLibbys Happy Families Card Game, Mr Libbys Corned Beef. circa 1950s
Miss Libbys Red SalmonLibbys Happy Families Card Game, Miss Libbys Red Salmon. circa 1950s
Cartoon portrait, Mr Paul Meritt, author and farmerCartoon, Mr Paul Meritt (c1843-1895), author and farmer. 1885
Puss in Boots, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918
Scenes in the life of a Stuart Gentleman during the reign of King Charles I, with his thoughts in the skies and his feet firmly on the ground. (2 of 2) Date: 1630s
Spur-legged stick insect, Didymuria violescens (Violet-winged phasma, Phasma violescens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn
Gentlemen geologists laboriously search for minerals in a river. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg
Labantsiksa, shaman of the Khorintzi Buryats people of Siberia. She wears a helmet with antlers, leather dress decorated with bells, a cape with three entwined serpents
Men playing kayles or skittles, 14th centuryMedieval kayles or skittles. Game played with ball, stick, hoop and target (top), men playing kayles or skittles with stick and six pins (middle)
Sword fighting for prizes, 14th centuryTwo fencing students fighting a mock duel with bucklers and cudgels, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Animal imitators, 14th centuryPerformers imitating animals in the 14th century: man with pipe and tabor dancing with a man in stag costume; man with dancing dog, man with stick receiving a scroll from a boy with a dogs head
Medieval entertainment with horses: a horse baited with dogs; a horse dancing to pipe and tabor; a horse fighting a man with shield and cudgel near a tethered monkey;
Medieval trained bears: Anglo-Saxon gleemen with sticks and horns peforming over a trained bear, 10th century (top), juggler with bear and drummer with chained bear, 14th century (middle)
Quintain exercises, 14th century. A man attempts to unseat a man on a stool with his leg, a man on a swing attempts to unseat a man on a stool with his leg
The fairground game of quoits or hoopla, jeu du lapin, 1815. Satirical print by showing the Duke of Wellington winning Napoleon Bonaparte as the prize
The Duchess of Burgundy playing billiards, 18th centuryLouis XIV returning from a hunt to find the Duchess of Burgundy playing billiards. From an engraving published by Bonnard, 1704
The royal game of fortifications, table billiardsThe royal game of fortifications, 18th century. Louis XIVs three sons use cue sticks to hit balls through a fortress and onto a fortified structure
Fashionable people playing the game of ring toss, 1818Fashionable people playing the game of ring toss, la bague volante, from an engraving in le Bon Genre, 1818. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)
Men playing fossette (golf) and croce (hockey)Medieval men playing ball games in a park. In the foreground, men try to throw a ball (esteuf) into a hole in the ground in the game of fossette (ancient golf)
Man of Rawak Island near Waigeo, Papua New Guinea, making a fire. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R
Plaster cast of a mans body from the Via Stabiana, now in the Museum of Pompeii. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles
Titan stick insect, Acrophylla titanTitan stick insect or walking stick, Acrophylla titan (Cyphocrania titan). Handcolored engraving by Lebrun after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire
Water stick insect, Ranatra linearis (Linear nepa, Nepa linearis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder
Two incroyables (fops) with cudgels hinder the promenade of two merveilleuses by pinning the tails of their dresses. One looks back coquettishly at the ridiculous dandy
The creole game or flying ring game, early 19thc centuryFashionable people playing the flying ring game or the creole game. When the Parisians adopted the game, it had to be embellished: so the ring was covered with ribbon, then rosettes, then bells
Young man in chenille yarn jacket, cravat, gloves, trousers, top hat and stick. When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery
Skeleton of Death leading an Old Man to his graveSkeleton of Death playing a psaltery as he leads an Old Man to his grave. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, 1816
Alpine scene with itinerant barrel seller. Man carrying barrels, basins and baskets meeting peasants and dairy farmers. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857
Craftswoman from Nuremberg and womanCraftswoman from Nuremberg with purse in the form of a castle with little man looking out, and woman from Cologne in golden girdle with bouquet of flowers, late 16th century