Story Collection (page 14)

Harold swears fealty to Duke William
Allegedly after being shipwrecked on the French coast in 1064 (a date highly disputed amongst historians), The Bayeux Tapestry, and other Norman sources

King Cnut commands the tide to retreat (unsuccessfully)
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

Illustration, girl asleep under a tree. Date: 1895

Advertisement in The Illustrated London News publicising the forthcoming story of Captain Scotts Adventurous Journeys in the Antarctic Region as narrated by Lieutenant (Ernest) Shackleton

Return of the Dove Date: 1941

The Fisher Building, Chicago, USA
The 20-storey Neo-Gothic Fisher Building, 343 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, USA. Date: 1906

The Real Princess by Margaret Tarrant
A scene from The Real Princess depicting them discovering that she is in fact a real princess because she was able to feel the pea through all of the mattresses and quilts. Date: 1948

Cover design, Womans Pictorial
Cover design by Margaret W Tarrant, Womans Pictorial magazine, 10 May 1924. Depicting a girl and a boy climbing a tree in blossom, watched by a white cat

Children reading together Pals by C V MacKenzie
Charming illustration showing two children, arms around each other as they perch on a stool reading a book together. Date: 1920s

Children reading together Story Time by Mackenzie
Charming illustration showing two children, a boy and girl, sharing a book in the middle of a playroom. Date: 1920s

ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR ARTHUR & EXCALIBUR
Not an English myth at all but based on a Welsh story eagerly taken up by the Normans after the conquest as a means of culturally subjugating the English. Dont be fooled!

DICKENS / THE CHIMES
Trotty Veck - a poor ticket porter whose outlook is converted from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Years Eve. Date: First published: 1844

STEVENSON / POEMS
Picture Books in Winter: Summer fading, winter comes; Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, & the picture story books. Date: First published: 1885

GAME / ACTING RED RIDING
A group of children act out the story of Red Riding Hood to an audience of their family and friends Date: 1880

MASSENET / CENDRILLON
(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role and Mademoiselle Emelen as the Prince in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON 2
(Cinderella) Guiraudon in the title role in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

MASSENET / CENDRILLON 1
(Cinderella) Brejean-Graviere as the Fairy in this opera based on the Cinderella story. Date: first performed 1899

GRANDMOTHERS STORY Date: 1877

JAPANESE GHOST STORY
A Japanese ghost story : The ghost of Yoichi appears to his friend Ichibei and asks for revenge on his misbehaving wife and her new husband Date: 1908

MOTHER READING A STORY
Make-believe reading Date: 1852

LITTLE WOMEN / JO / EDITOR
Jo hands her story into the editor. Date: First published: 1868

YOUTH LEARNS FEAR / GRIMM
THE STORY OF THE YOUTH WHO WENT FORTH TO LEARN WHAT FEAR WAS - the boy meets (and beats) the fierce old man Date: circa 1905

THE SNAKE PRINCE / QUEEN
The princess begs the Queen of Snakes to give her back her husband. (Feroshepore story)

MER-PEOPLE / SEA-LADY
A Sea-Lady surrounded by sea creatures and a young man playing bagpipes. (Irish story)

THE FAIRY NURSE
The fairies go off with the farmers wife. (Irish story)

MAIDEN WITH HELMET
The maiden washing her face in a stream whilst a young man watches her from behind a tree. (Japanese story)

READING IN GARDEN
Four children in the garden read a fairy story Date: circa 1880

MOTHER READS TO CHILDREN
Mother reading a story to her two children Date: 1947

CHILDREN READING / TOYS
Children gather round while a boy reads from a story book. Date: 1893

Storytelling - Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer: Tom and Joe tell their adventures

Cartoon satire on Lloyd George and the drink trade
A cartoon satire on David Lloyd George (1863-1945) and the drink trade, in an echo of David and Goliath. Date: 1915

The dormouses story. Fuller & Richard - The Wonderland Postcards - Seven Designs Date: 1910

Passing of the Third Floor Back, Opera House, Tunbridge Well
Passing of the Third Floor Back, a play by Jerome K Jerome, at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells. circa 1910s

Comin thro the Rye, Wimbledon Theatre, SW London
Comin thro the Rye, a play by Constance Stuart based on a story by Helen Mathers, at The Wimbledon Theatre, SW London, starring Ena Grossmith and full West End company

Newspaper Story by Toby Neal in Shropshire Weekend Shrop?
Newspaper Story by Toby Neal in Shropshire Weekend Shropshire Star 27 March 2004 Issue Page 4, Ernest Maund Early Aviator / Pilot from Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK

Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) - Storyteller keeping two young boys entranced with his tales. Date: circa 1930s

Multi-part story in the Native American Pictograph Tradition, printed on shaped cards to resemble the hides on which the original stories were painted

Front cover of Useful Artistic Furniture
Useful Artistic Furniture, a catalogue by Story & Triggs of London, illustrated with colour and black and white photographs of furniture in appropriate interior settings, printed in Austria, c.1900

Page from Useful Artistic Furniture
Useful Artistic Furniture, a catalogue by Story & Triggs of London, illustrated with colour and black and white photographs of furniture in appropriate interior settings, printed in Austria, c.1900

Illustration, Gullivers Travels
Illustration to Gullivers Travels, showing Gulliver captured and tied down in Lilliput. circa 1860s

Edmund Gwenn in Der Struwwelpeter 1913
Shocked-headed Peter, Edmund Gwenn (1877 1959), English actor as Peter in the famous German story book, first seen at the Garrick on Boxing Day

Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
Androcles and the Lion, a play by George Bernard Shaw. For Wallacks Theatre, New York, January 1915. O P Heggie, shown here as Androcles, had played the part in London. Phil Dwyer played the lion

Granida and Daifilo, 1625, by Gerard van Honthorst (1592-165
Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656). Dutch painter. Granida and Daifilo, 1625. Detail. Centraal Museum. Utrecht. Netherlands

Illustration, Hans in Luck -- Just then a butcher came along the road trundling a young pig in a wheelbarrow. Date: 1909

Judith, Slayer of Holofernes by Matania
Judith, slayer of Holofernes, about to do some slaying as the latter lies asleep, unconcerned that her dress is about to fall off. No

Helen of Troy by Matania
Helen of Troy and King Priam watch Paris and Menelaus fight for her sake. Illustration to accompany the first story in a series on Famous Women from History written by Kenneth Bell

Daniel in the lions den but one lion at least looks awake. Date: circa late 19th century

Ara Casali. View of the back, with the legend of Romulus and Remus. Roman art. Relief on rock. VATICAN CITY. Pius-Clementine Museum (Vatican Museums)

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