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Anglo-Saxon Punishments

“Stocks were used, at an early period, as a means of punishing breakers of the law. The precise date when they were first emplyed in this country is not known, but we may infer from early mediaeval il [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, bare feet, people, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Stocks and Whipping Post, Aldbury

Stocks and whiping-post, Aldbury, from a photo by A. Whitford Anderson, Esq., Watford. A half-timbered house, probably Tudor, beside a pond; in the foreground are wooden stocks, with the somewhat unev [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Aldbury; Hertfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-30

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Bookcase

In the Library, Hereford Cathedral “So far as we have been able to discover there are only three collections of books in England now attached to the shelves by chains, namely ‘The Chapter Library in H [...]

Keywords: books, old books, pictures of books, libraries, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Hereford; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2005-06-01

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Meeting-Hall of the Brewers’ Guild

Waterhuis. — Vergaderzaal der Brouwersgilde. La Maison Hydraulique. — Sall de réunion de la Corporation des Brasseurs. Das Wasserhaus. — Versammlungssaal der Brauersgilde. The Waterhouse. — Meeting-Ha [...]

Keywords: interiors, tables, furniture, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-05-02

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Museum of Antiquities

The Museum of Antiquities - the South Side

Het Steen. – Museum van Oudheden – Zuidzijde.

Keywords: castles, streets, people, water, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2004-02-22

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Leys Street.

An old (undated) photograph of Laystraat in Antwerp. I can see signs for the Norwich Union, and for a large hotel (Metropole?) and also for F. Dierckx.

Keywords: cities, buildings, street scenes, old photogrphs, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2007-08-15

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Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail, widescreen version]

A detail from the Portrait of Sir Thomas More suitable for use as a computer desktop background (“wallpaper”). This one is for screens in the 8:5 wide-screen aspect ratio; there is also a widescreen ( [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

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King Henry VIII Stares Back

A detail from the Portrait of King Henry the 8th, tightly cropped so that it makes a screen background image at an 8:5 aspect ratio. There is also a full-head version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, royalty, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

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Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail]

A detail from the Portrait of Sir Thomas More suitable for use as a computer desktop background (“wallpaper”). This one is for screens in the 4:3 aspect ratio; there is also a widescreen (8:5) version [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-24

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The Tower Of London Castle Diagram (wallpaper version)

A version of The Tower of London woodcut with the borders and letters removed (and stretched vertically by about 5%) to make a cool wallpaper.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, towers, battlements, boats, water, moats

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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Free Wallpaper: The head of Henry VIII

A detail from the Portrait of King Henry the 8th, scaled and cropped so that it makes a screen background image at an 8:5 aspect ratio. There is also a scarier version.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, royalty, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-10

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Psalter

Part of a page from Fust & Schoiffer’s second Psalter. A.D. 1459. Johann Fust of Mainz was one of the earliest German printers; Peter Schoiffer, or Peter Schoffer, was his son-in-law. They set up a p [...]

Keywords: music, printing, history of printing, typography, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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