Newbridge, County Dublin
Newbridge, County Dublin
Floral Border
Floral Border
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Yankee Doodle
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
What are Little Boys made of
Three Girls reading a book
Three Blind Mice
There was a Little Man
The Mulberry Bush
The Three Little Kittens
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Ride a Cock Horse
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat Where Have You Been
Pat-A-Cake
Polly Put the Kettle On
Oranges and Lemons
Oh Where, Oh Where Is my Little Dog Gone
Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Lucy Locket
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Little Miss Muffet
Little Jack Horner
Little Boy Blue
Jack and Jill
Little Bo-Peep
I Love Little Pussy
Hush-A-By Baby
Humpty Dumpty
Hickory Dickory Dock
Girls and Boys come out to play
Girl and her toys reading a book
Girl hugging one of her dolls
Georgy Porgy
Ding Dong Bell
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border-square-corners
The Embarkation of Henry VIII. from Dover, 1520
(From the original painting at Hampton Court.)
Coaches in the Reign of Elizabeth
Coaches in the Reign of Elizabeth I (From 'Archcæologia.')
South-east Part of London in the Fifteenth Century, showing the Tower and Wall
Shipping in the Thames, circa 1660
(From Pricke's 'South Prospect of London.')
Sir Francis Drake, in his Forty-third Year
The Globe Theatre
The first theatre was built in 1570. Thirty years after there were seven. The Queen had companies of children to play before her. They were the boys of the choirs of St. Paul's, Westminster, Whitehall, and Windsor. The actors called themselves the servants of some great lord. Lord Leicester, Lord Warwick, Lord Pembroke, Lord Howard, the Earl of Essex, and others all had their company of actors—not all at the same time. The principal Houses were those at Southwark, and especially at Bank Side, where there were three, including the famous Globe
Civil Costume about 1620
(From a contemporary broadside.)
A Countryman and Countrywoman
Ordinary Civil Costume ; temp Charles I (From Speed's map of 'The Kingdom of England,' 1646.)
Costume of a Lawyer
(From a broadside, dated 1623.)
A Citizen and his wife
Ordinary Civil Costume ; temp Charles I (From Speed's map of 'The Kingdom of England,' 1646.)
A Gentleman and gentlewoman
Ordinary Civil Costume ; temp Charles I (From Speed's map of 'The Kingdom of England,' 1646.)
Paul Pindar's House
Coach of the latter half of the Seventeenth Century
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.')
Ordinary Dress of Gentlemen in 1675
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.')
Waggon of the second half of the Seventeenth Century
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.')
Dress of Ladies of Quality
(From Sandford's 'Coronation Procession of James II.')
Ordinary Attire of Women of the Lower Classes
(From Sandford's 'Coronation Procession of James II.')
Temple Bar, London
(Built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1670; taken down in 1878 and since rebuilt at Waltham Cross.)
A Coach of the Middle of the Seventeenth Century
(From an engraving by John Dunstall.)
Early British Pottery
Roman London
Martyrdom of St. Edmund by the Danes
(From a drawing belonging to the Society of Antiquaries.)