- A Contest with the Longbow
A Contest with the Longbow - Alfred d Orsay
Alfred d Orsay - An absent desert - the Cromwell Road
An absent desert - the Cromwell Road - Ancient Britons
The country we live in is a large island, called BRITAIN. It is divided into two parts : the northern part is now named SCOTLAND, and the southern part, ENGLAND. At first there were no houses, gardens, or fields, such as we see now; but most of the island was covered with great forests and marshes. The people who lived in it were called BRITONS, and were wild, ignorant savages. In summer they went about naked ; and in winter they clothed them-selves with the skins of the wild beasts which they killed in hunting. Their hair was allowed to grow very long, and they stained their bodies of a blue colour, to frighten their enemies. They ate acorns and other wild fruits, and lived in caves, or in huts made of branches of trees covered over with mud. These were generally built together in little villages in the midst of forests. Their time was chiefly spent in hunting in the woods, or in fishing. For the latter, they used small boats called coracles, made of wicker-work covered with skins. They were often at war with each other, and fought with a rude kind of spear and arrows, of which the heads were made of sharp pieces of stone. The Britons were divided into many tribes. Each tribe had a chief, who led them in battle, and ruled over them in time of peace. - Augustine Preaching before Ethelbert
In the year 596 Augustine with forty other priests landed in Kent. The name of the king of that part was Ethelbert, whose wife Bertha was a Christian. Ethelbert allowed Augustine to preach before him in the open air ; and very soon he saw how wrong it was to worship idols, and was baptized in the Christian faith. The Britons soon followed the good example shown them by Ethelbert, and gave up their false gods, and became Christians. - Beasts at the zoo
Beasts at the zoo - Benjamin D’Israeli
Benjamin D’Israeli - Burdett, Hume and O'Connell
Burdett, Hume and O'Connell - Cock and Pie, Drury Lane
- Crossbow and Arrows used for Sport
Another name for the crossbow was 'arbalist,' and its arrows were called quarils, or bolts. These were made of various sorts of wood; about a dozen trees were used for the purpose, but ash-wood was thought to be the best. Generally the arrows had a tip of iron, shaped like a pyramid, pointed, though for shooting at birds the top was sometimes blunt, so that a bird might be struck down without being badly wounded. One old writer says that a great difference between the long-bow and the crossbow was, that success did not depend upon who pulled the lock—a child might do this as well as a man—but with the long-bow strength was everything. In fact, during the Tudor times, the kings specially encouraged the archers to practise shooting with the long-bow, and people were even forbidden to keep crossbows. The crossbow, however, when it had reached perfection, carried much further than the ordinary long-bow. - Cumberland Hay-market
Cumberland Hay-market - Druids
ALTHOUGH these Britons did not worship images, they believed that there were many gods and their religion was very different from that which is taught us in the Bible. They had priests who were called DRUIDS, who lived mostly in the forests, and taught the people that the Oak was a sacred tree. They worshipped the mistletoe, a plant which grows on the branches of the oak and on other trees. This mistletoe was cut off every year, with a golden knife, by the chief Druid, amid great rejoicing, and was very carefully preserved. The priests wore white linen robes, and let their beards grow very long to distinguish them from the rest of the people. The savages obeyed them because they knew more than anybody else, and tried to find out medicines to cure those who were ill. They used various means to make the people give them presents. On a certain day, at the beginning of winter, they obliged all persons to put out their fires, and light them again from the fire of the sacred altar, telling them, that by so doing they would have good fortune throughout the year; but if any one did not act as they wished, they would not allow him to enter their temples, and his friends were forbidden to give him any help. - Edward Lytton Bulwer
Edward Lytton Bulwer - Emanuel Hospital, Westminster
- Entrance to Great St. Helen's
- Fashions for 1836 and 1837
Fashions for 1836 and 1837 - Flower Girl
Flower Girl - Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau - Hyde Park
Hyde Park - James Hogg
James Hogg - John Baldwin Buckstone
John Baldwin Buckstone - John Galt
- John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart - John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker - King's Head Inn, Southwark
- Landing of the Romans
- Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt - Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham - Lord Byron
Lord Byron - Lord John Russell
Lord John Russell - Lord Lyndhurst
Lord Lyndhurst - M. Blessington
M. Blessington - Mary Russell Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford - Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday - Nag's Head Inn Yard, Southwark
- Napoleon at Longwood
Napoleon at Longwood - Old Houses, White Hart Inn, Southwark
- Pierre-Jean De Béranger
Pierre-Jean De Béranger - Private View - the A.A.A
Private View - the A.A.A - Queen Victoria in 1839
Queen Victoria in 1839 - Queen's Head Inn, Southwark
- Regina's Maids of Honour
Regina's Maids of Honour - Rev. William Lisle Bowles
Rev. William Lisle Bowles - Romans teaching the Britons to Build
The Romans built many cities, the names of some of which you know, such as London, and York, and Bath. They taught the people how to plough the fields and to sow corn, that they might have bread to eat. They brought to the country many fruits and vegetables which were quite new to the poor Britons. They showed them how to spin and to weave, and soon they left off dyeing their skins, and began to clothe themselves like their masters; and when they saw the houses which were built by the Romans, they left their dark caves and their rude huts. The Britons were also taught to read and to write, and to speak the Roman language. Nor should I forget to tell you, that the cruel Druids were all destroyed by one of the Roman generals. - Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Shepherd's Market
Shepherd's Market - Shopping
Shopping - Sir John C. Hobhouse
Sir John C. Hobhouse - Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel - Soho Market
Soho Market - Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith - The Cafe Royal
- The Chelsea Arts Ball
The Chelsea Arts Ball - The Duchess of Kent, with Princess Victoria at the age of two
The Duchess of Kent, with Princess Victoria at the age of two - The first Railway Journey in England
It was called the 'Locomotion.' George Stephenson stood ready to drive it as soon as the trucks, which a stationary engine was lowering down the slope by means of a wire rope, had been attached to it. In the first of these trucks came the Directors of the Railway Company and their friends, followed by twenty-one trucks (all open to the sky, like ordinary goods-trucks), loaded with various passengers, and finally six more waggons of coal. Such was the first train. A man on horseback, carrying a flag, having taken up his position in front of the 'Locomotion' to head the procession, the starting word was given, and with a hiss of steam, half drowned in the shouting of the crowd, the first railway journey ever made in England was begun. - The Fraserians
The Fraserians - The Good Intent - Chelsea
The Good Intent - Chelsea - The Heart of the City
The Heart of the City - The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark
The Old Tabard Inn, High Street, Southwark