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![[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]")
Pictures from “A Short History of the English People” by J. R. Green M.A., Macmillan, 1902. This book was first published in 1874, and was very successful. I have the illustrated edition, which was edited posthumously by his widow; this is a reissue of the 1892 edition as far as I can tell from the Impressions page. John Richard Green was an English historian (1837 – 1883). I also have England by the same author.
Title: A Short History of the English People
Published by: Macmillan
City: London
Date: 1902
Total items: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, A Short History of the English People]")
Front Cover, A Short History of the English People
Green buckram. My copy is bound in four separate volumes. [$]
![[picture: The Virgin and Child]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/0395-The-Virgin-and-Child-q75-140x200.jpg "[picture: The Virgin and Child]")
![[picture: Frontispiece: Map of England]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/000-Frontispiece-map-q75-141x200.jpg "[picture: Frontispiece: Map of England]")
This 1902 map shows an England of over 100 years ago. It is attributed to Stanford’s Geographical Establishment. [$]
![[picture: Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Green-ShortHistory/wm/big/0400-Draughts-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,]")
Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,
A lady and a young man playing “draughts” from an early fourteenth century manuscript (MS. Roy. 2 B. vii).
It appears that two of the pieces differ from the others, leading me to suspect that this is not draughts as we know it. The youth is seated on the left, with his feet on a stool of some kind. He wears a long robe and a cape, but has a hint of a goatee. The lady is [more...] [$]
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