Items in England

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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Waltham Abbey Whipping-Posts and Stocks.

The Anglo-Saxons whipped prisoners with a whip of three cords, knotted at the end. It was not an uncommon practice for mistresses to whip, or have their servants whipped, to death. William of Malmesbu [...]

Keywords: stocks, punishments

Places shown: Waltham; Essex; England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Taunting Persons in the Stocks.

“The “Cambridge Trinity College Psalter”—an illuminated manuscript—presents some curious illustrations of the manners of the earlier half of the twelth century. We give a reproduction of one of its q [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, bare feet, stocks

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Chained Library in Wimborne Minster.

A library room with glass display cabinets in the middle of walls lined with shelves of chained books. “In a room of the eastern tower of Wimborne Minster, Dorsetshire, is an important collection of c [...]

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

Places shown: Wimborne; Dorset; England

Added: 2005-02-06

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Chained Bible in Cumnor Church

Keywords: books, old books, pictures of books

Places shown: Cumnor; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-01-17

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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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p.33 Domesday Book.

A line-drawing of some old leather-bound books, closed The Domesday Book was compiled at the order of William the Conqueror (1066 and all that) almost a thousand years ago. It was an inventory of all [...]

Keywords: books, line art, pictures of books

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-08

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Geoffrey Chaucer

This image is from the chapter “Chaucer and the Mediæval Inn.’ and bears the additional caption “From the Harleian MS. 4866, fol. 91.” The portrait of Chaucer, which the affection of his disciple, Tho [...]

Keywords: people, beards, monks

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-17

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Timber Houses, Coventry

Timber was largely used in the construction of houses, some speciments of which yet remain, the most celebrated being parts of Crosby Hall, in Bishopsgate, London. Coventry also contains some fine and [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture

Places shown: Coventry; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2008-03-10

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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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The Tower of London

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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