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Mr Foxs Hunt Breakfast on Christmas DayMr Foxs Hunt Breakfast by Harry Bingham Nielson (1861-1941), showing a group of foxes dressed in hunting garb, sitting down to a breakfast of game birds
Church Bell RingersRinging the changes in the belfry of an English parish church at Christmas time
A Cats Christmas Dance by Louis WainA large group of cats enjoying a Christmas dance. Wain was able to turn his hand to drawing a wide variety of animals prior to the fame he achieved with his feline creations
WW2 Christmas Card, Holly SoldiersA WW2 Christmas card made in a baking parchment material. The illustration shows a marching line of holly leaves with red berries as the heads of soldiers, wearing tin hats and satchels
Christmas Truce 1914 / Ww1British and German troops fraternise on the field of battle on Christmas Eve, greeting each other and exchanging goodwill, and are even photographed together
First Christmas Card by Sir Henry Cole and John HorsleyReputedly the first Christmas card, this was designed by Horsley in 1843, and a coloured version sent out by Sir Henry Cole in 1846
The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic. Depicting a dead soldier on a battlefield with an ethereal image of Christ on the cross shining
The Allies of Santa Claus by Mabel Lucie AttwellTwo little girls slumber on a window sill as the elvish helpers of Father Christmasm sprinkle fairy dust in order that he may deliver presents. Date: 1919
Sympathy by Briton RiviereA young girl sitting contemplatively on carpeted stairs, being comforted by her pet dog. Date: Christmas Number 1900
He was Jack Frost by Helen JacobsEnchanting illustration featuring a glistening Jack Frost lecturing a group of snowdrop fairies or pixies in a snow covered woodland glade
Louis Wain - A Christmas catastrophe : please, sir, the rat entree has escaped and eaten the turkey, cats eating and drinking Date: circa 1906
In the Days of Dickens by Cecil AldinA coach and horses laden with jovial travellers looking very much like the Pickwick Club drive into a village to stop by a handsome looking coaching inn
The Lady With The Lamp Florence NightingaleA colour illustration from the 1890s depicting Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer (1820-1910) at the barracks hospital, Scutari, in 1854 during the Crimean War
Six owl bellringers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Sharing Rations - The Troopers Christmas-BoxA British trooper shares his Christmas rations with his horse on the Western Front during WWI. 1916
All that was left of them, 17th Lancers near Modderfontein, 17 September 1901.Chromolithograph after Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927)
Illustrated London News Christmas number cover, 1904A beautiful fairy with wings, looks thoughtful as she gazes out to the sea and starry sky. Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1904. Date: 1904
Ely Cathedral in the snow by Ernest UdenEly Cathedral pictured in the snow
Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898. jpgIllustration by Cecil Aldin depicting a kindly Father Christmas reciting the traditional song, " Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat" to a gaggle of obviously dim geese
Christmas Truce / 1914 / Ww1A light of peace in the trenches on Christmas Eve as a German soldier approaches the British lines with a Christmas Tree and small paper lantern
Please, Mr Policeman, where is Father Christmas by MataniaIn the centre of London, close to Piccadilly Circus, two children stop a policeman from directing traffic to ask him where Father Christmas is
Scrooge Sees Marley FaceScrooge is startled to see Marleys face on his door, instead of the knocker
Scrooge and Marley GhostScrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner
Dickensian PartyMrs Fezziwigs Ball - shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past
Two Children Sitting on a SwingTwo children sitting on a swing in a snowy landscape
Bob Cratchit & Tiny TimHappy at the prospect of a hearty Christmas dinner, due to the generosity of the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit carries his son Tiny Tim on his shoulder!
Christmas Steps, BristolA rainy day on Christmas Steps, Bristol, England. This old thoroughfare probably took its name from a Christmas charity, which was formerly dispensed from here
Dickens / Christmas CarolScrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner
Christmas card, Rabbit and robin. 20th century
Robin RedbreastPoem by M. Nightingale about the robin, featuring a lovely decoration by Gladys M. Rees. Date: 1939
Christmas Truce / PhotoBritish and German soldiers fraternising on Christmas Day abandoning their respective trenches to exchange gifts, play sports and forget the war for one day
Christmas Truce / SoldiersBritish and German troops leave their trenches on New Years Day to fraternise in peace in No Mans Land
Christmas / Nativity SceneNativity scene
Suffragettes - Christmas Dinner in Holloway by Lawson WoodFour portly prison officers and policemen force feed a handcuffed suffragette Christmas pudding from the police buffet trolley in Holloway Prison. Date: 1912
St Lucys DaySaint Lucys day (15 December) The girl chosen to be Lucia carries coffee and cakes to those preparing Christmas gifts and decorations
Foot guards at Battle of WaterlooUp, Guards, and at them!.Colour oleolithograph after Richard Caton Woodville.Published as a Supplement to Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Art deco illustration for Christmas Card, 1920sArt deco illustration fro Christmas Card, 1920s 1920s
Pierrot and Columbine -- Smile, PleaseColumbine tickles a gloomy Pierrot with a peacock feather and asks him to Smile, Please!
Fancy Dress Ball, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, 2 December 1920. Date: 1920
Victorian Greeting Card - Owls with LanternTwo owls standing with a lantern. Date: circa 1890
Pilgrim Fathers First Christmas 1621A man fills a tankard of beer from a small keg, as various men sit or stand around drinking. Date: 1621
Coach and horses in the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1910s
Coldstream Guards on a Christmas and New Year card, changing sentry duty in the snow. Date: circa 1890s
Cats enjoying a party on a Christmas cardA family of cats enjoying a party on a Christmas card, by Louis Wain. Date: circa 1900s
Fat Geese! by Lawson WoodA cheeky young lad chuckles to himself after placing a sign for fattened geese on the posterior of a rather plump lady who is herself choosing which goose to buy for her Christmas dinner. Date: 1909
Christmas at the Front: Soldiers chopping down a tree 1914Two British soldiers at the front line chopping down a small tree for Christmas. Date: 1914
Christmas scene with Santa Claus and yule log. There are rabbit musicians, geese pulling the log, a pudding, a boars head, and people carrying flaming torches. 19th century
Nativity scene, with the Three Kings bearing giftsA Christmas Nativity scene, with the Three Kings bearing gifts for the Baby Jesus