Bulldog Gallery

Ulsters Oath - The Bulldog will not submit to Home Rule

Remember Castledawson (a UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force) stronghold in County Derry) written on a staunchly Unionist postcard entitled Ulster's Oath - "Under no cirsumstances shall we submit to Home Rule" and "What we've got we'll hold". Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Britain, British, Bulldog, Castledawson, County, Derry, Dispute, Force, Ireland, Irish, Kingdom, Northern, Oath, Postcard, Remember, Staunchly, Stronghold, Terrier, Territorial, Territory, Troubles, Ulster, Ulsters, Unionist, United, Uvf, Volunteer, Volunteers

Actors playing Henry Tudor fighting King Richard III

Actors playing Henry Tudor fighting King Richard III of England on stage in a theatre. Other actors wait in the wings in tunics with red and white roses. A few Victorian men and women sit in the theatre boxes. The Battle of Bosworth Field. A scene from the Great Drama of History. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett's Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co. London, 1880

© Florilegius

Greater bulldog bat or fisherman bat (Noctilio leporinus

Greater bulldog bat or fisherman bat, Noctilio leporinus unicolor, and tailed tailless bat, Anoura caudifer. (Peruvian bat, Noctilio unicolor, and tailed glossophag bat, Glossophaga caudifer). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Basire from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1824. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans