Adventures Gallery

Alice in Wonderland, Alice at the croquet game

Alice in Wonderland, Alice at the croquet game, with flamingo (mallet) and hedgehogs (balls). Date: early 20th century

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Adventure, Adventures, Alice, Ball, Balls, Bird, Birds, Book, Books, Card, Cards, Carroll, Child, Children, Croquet, Fantasy, Flamingo, Game, Garden, Gardens, Girl, Girls, Hearts, Hedgehog, Hedgehogs, Historical, History, Hoop, Hoops, King, Lewis, Literature, Mallet, Pink, Playing, Queen, Red, Surreal, Surrealism, Tenniel, Victorian, Wonderland

Errol Flynn/Robin Hood

Errol Flynn is at his swash- buckling best in Michael Curtiz's saga which also offers Olivia de Havilland as Marian, Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone as the nasties

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1909, 1959, Adventures, Aiming, Arrow, Australian, Bow, Errol, Film, Flynn, Forest, Green, Historical, History, Hood, Performing, Robin

The Golliwoggs Bicycle Club - Surrounded by Cannibals

Surrounded by Cannibals! The book charts Golliwogg's adventures with his dutch peg doll friends Peggy, Weg, Meg, Sarah Jane and the dinky little Midget. This is the 2nd title in a 13-book series of Golliwogg books written by mother Bertha and illustrated by daughter Florence. The tale revolved around their travels around the globe on homemade bicycles (and the disasters that befall them!). These books gave the origination of the term golliwogg, now seen as highly un-PC and socially-unacceptable for reasons of supposed racial stereotyping and changing political attitudes, despite the innocent intent of the original creation, set in a time of wildly different social norms'. Date: 1896

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection