Hun Collection

How Some Englishmen thought we were going to win the war
Humorous cartoon showing Englishmen, armed with cricket bats, golf clubs and rugby balls giving the Hun a good thrashing - a satirical view on how some thought World War One could be won in

The Hun Helmet
A fashionable young flapper stands on the verandha of her house and admires a war trophy, a German helmet enterprisingly transformed into a hanging basket

British airman dropping a bomb by hand, WW1
A British airman dropping a bomb by hand, in midair, during the First World War. The message on the bomb reads: Hun, Bulgar, Share This Ration. Date: 1914-1918

Archers on horseback, Central Asia
Warrior archers (Batyrs) on horseback, Central Asia (Kazakhstan area)

Attila the Hun
ATTILA, KING OF THE HUNS Leader of an Empire stretching from the Netherlands to the Urals. Seen as the epitome of cruelty in Western Europe, but lionized in Eastern Europe

Ancient Kazakh warriors (Batyrs), Kazakhstan
Ancient Kazakh warriors (Batyrs) in battle dress on horseback, with Turkic military equipment and armour, Kazakhstan

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WW2 - There's A Hun Plane!
A short story illustration which shows a military man sitting with a girl, he spots an enemy plane in the sky and prepares to get down! Date: circa 1940

The Soulful Hun
A portrait illustration comically presenting a Hun as soulful, by holding a flower while pleasantly smiling. Date: circa 1917

The latest act of Hun fiendishness during the First World War: the Glenart Castle, the seventh hospital ship sunk in breach of the German pledge

King Bela I of Hungary, Gyula, and Attila the Hun
Rulers of Hungary: King Bela I the Champion 6, Gyula III 4, and Attila the Hun 1. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Advertisement for French war bonds, WW1
Advertisement for French war bonds during the First World War -- give your gold to fight for victory. 1914-1918

WW1 - Cartoon - The Austrian Ultimatum
WW1 - The Austro-Hungarian empire personified as birds of prey, deliver their ultimatum and demands to the Serbian s. With their demands not met

WW1 poster, Hun or Home?
Poster, Hun or Home? Buy more liberty bonds. circa 1918

Poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, WW1
American poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, designed to raise money for the war effort during the First World War. Showing a menacing German with bloody fingers and bayonet. Date: 1917-1918

Liberty Bonds War Poster
A World War One poster urging people to buy Liberty Bonds to prevent the Germans attacking civilians

WW1 poster, Liberty Bonds
Poster, The Hun - his Mark, Blot it Out with Liberty Bonds. circa 1917

Saint Ursula & virgins
Saint Ursula of Koln, about to be martyred with her 11 companions each of whom is attended by 1000 virgins, but nasty Attila the Hun will spare not a single one of them 4th century

Italy / Attila & Pope Leo
The Pope and Saint, Leo I, checks the progress of Attila the Hun at the gates of Rome. Date: 451

Zeppelinanities: The airy humour of the Hun by H. M. Bateman
" Zeppelinanities. The airy humour of the Hun: a German air-raiders air-raising narrative illustrated by our caricaturist." This cartoon depicts the German zeppelin raid on London on 8

The Huns in Sport by H. M. Bateman, WW1
A series of sketches by humorous artist, H. M. Bateman, showing the Germans indulging in decidedly unsporting behaviour, a reflection - in the eyes of the British - of their conduct during the First

Winston Churchill (Journalist)
Mr Winston Churchill (Journalist) gives the Hun another shock A cartoon by Leonard Raven Hill in Punchs Almanack for 1917, depicting Churchill in civilian dress in a trench

WW1 - French and German aerial battle, 1916
WW1 - French and German aeroplanes in an aerial battle. The French in quick-firing gun action using the built in machine gun at the nose of the battle-plane to attack their enemy

WW1 - HMS E13 British submarine - Aground and attacked
WW1 - HMS E13 was a British E class submarine. Due to a compass failure, it ran aground on the Danish Island of Saltholm in the Oresund

WW1 - North Country troop trench warfare in Polygon Wood
WW1 - Out of their lairs in Polygon Wood, North Country troops bomb Hun machine-gunners. Polygon Wood is a forest located between Ypres and Zonnebeke, Belgium. Date: 1917

Dropping bombs on cricket match
Extract from Hun airmens report. " We dropped bombs on a British formation, causing the troops to disperse and run about in a panic-stricken manner." A cartoon by G.Jennis in Punch

WWI Poster, Liberty Bonds
Design by F Strothmann, Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, American poster. Date: 1918

Munitions Worker and Tommy WW1. The British Tommy the greatest Blue and the Blue Belle The New Britannia, Together, soldier and munition worker will make the Hun Squeal. Date: circa 1916

Germanys war aim - Peace & a Sword, David Wilson, WW1
Germany depicted as a gigantic, militaristic ogre, standing amidst the rubble of a devastated village brandishing a sword engraved with the words, Might is Right. Date: 1917

Submerged by William Heath Robinson
In an Untersee Realschule: Training a young U-boat pirate to remain under water for long periods. Another humorous wartime scenario involving the dastardly Hun by William Heath Robinson. Date: 1917

How the Last German got back across the Yser by Heath Robins
A lone German cavalry officer negotiates the River Yser with the use of his horse, rifle, boot and sword, only to terrify his comrade when he successfully gets to the other side. Date: 1915

Aerial warfare in summer skies by G. H. Davis
Beware of the Hun in the sun: aerial warfare in summer skies, flight formations and tactics dependent on the suns position. Left: hide and seek in the clouds, with the sun used for cover

Poster, Red Cross hospital ship, WW1
First World War poster: What a Red Rag is to a Bull, the Red Cross is to the Hun. Showing a German U-boat torpedoing a clearly marked British hospital ship

French encouraged to pour their gold into French WW1 effort
Dramatic patriotic postcard encouraging the French population to pour their gold into the French WW1 war effort or to exchange their gold at banks for real money to contribute. Date: 1915

Hun or home? Buy more Liberty Bonds. Poster showing a woman clutching an infant as a German soldier with bloody hands approaches. Date 1918

The Hun - His mark - Blot it out with Liberty Bonds. Poster showing a bloody hand print. Date 1917

Three boys playing at Fox Hunting, two on their hobby horses and one wearing a fox suit! They even have two dogs with them. Date: circa 1910s

World War One - Trophy of German Helmets
World War One - British Tommies sporting captured trophies - most obviously Hun Helmets and bayonets. Date: circa 1916

Jerry by George Ranstead
A small pen and ink drawing on a postcard of a British soldiers impression of the enemy. Known as " Jerry" by the troops and the " Hun" by officers

Saint Genevieve in Paris
Saint Genevieve (d.500) - Patroness of Paris. Took veil at 15 after the death of her parents and moved to Paris. Made a personal sortie to gain supplies for the City during the siege of Paris by

Santa Captured
Another Germ-Hun Authority: Father Christmas captured by the Cohorts of Kultur showing German soldiers arresting Santa Claus

Tug of War Cartoon
3rd Event - International Sports 1914- THE TUG OF WAR. " I Ain t seed Hun come up for the third time yet ave you Sargint?" - a sharp cartoon commentary on front line life

Saying No to the Hun
When Germans interrogate Clotilde Boucry if there are any French soldiers in the village, she denies it even though she is in the act of taking food to them

Hun Settlement
Ring-shaped fortified settlement of the Huns, who invade Europe from the east in the 4th century, occupying parts of Hungary and Germany before trying to move west

Cruisers Attacked
British cruisers are attacked by German aircraft

POPE LEO I The Great pope and saint opposed heretics, menaced by Attila the Hun

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