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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1265x634, 1687x845, 398x200, 711x356, 948x475 | Coin of ÆthelstanA Short History of the English People (1902) King Æthelstan ruled England from A.D. 924 to 940. This coin is inscribed “ÆĐELSTANRE” on one side and possibly “BIORNEARDMOLONDCI” on the other. There is also a somewhat crude likeness of the king. Keywords: coins, royalty, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-24 + S K L |
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| 1004x1848, 109x200, 339x624, 452x832, 602x1109, 803x1478 | Figure of Christ with Heathen Symbols.A Short History of the English People (1902) From barrow of Gorm and Thyra, Jutland. Worsaae, “Industrial Arts of Denmark.” This was next to the engraving of the silver cup in the book. Found in the huge double barrow in which the heathen king G [...] Keywords: religion, carving, druids, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-11-02 + S K L |
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1159x1305, 178x200, 695x783, 927x1044 | Silver Cup.A Short History of the English People (1902) From barrow of Gorm and Thyra, Jutland. Worsaae, “Industrial Arts of Denmark.” Found in the huge double barrow in which the heathen king Gorm the Old, founder of the Danish monarchy (c. 900-936), and [...] Keywords: cups, spirit, religion, druids, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-11-02 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Interior of S. Sepulchre Church, Cambridge.A Short History of the English People (1902) Built c. 114 – 1130. Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge. Built by a Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, to whom the Abbot and Convent of Ramsey gave for that purpose, between 1114 and 1130, a buri [...] Keywords: churches, norman england, interiors, pillars, norman architecture, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England Added: 2011-07-26 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, AngersA Short History of the English People (1902) The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...] Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France Added: 2008-07-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1064x762, 2127x1523, 279x200, 4254x3047 | Durtal, Anjou.A Short History of the English People (1902) A street leading to a small town of stone buildings including a castle and a church. There seemed to be some plate wash in this engraving and i’ve retained that in the digital image, as it added atmos [...] Keywords: castles, streets, spires, turrets, towns, buildings, churches, greyscale Places shown: Durtal; Anjou; France Added: 2018-07-21 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 2132x1524, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Lady and Youth Playing Draughts,A Short History of the English People (1902) 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 [...] Keywords: games, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-31 + S K L |
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1080x1291, 1440x1721, 167x200, 607x726, 810x968 | John WyclifA Short History of the English People (1902) “John Wyclif (portrait at Knole)” Wyclif is also written Wicliffe, Wycliffe, Wiclif, Wyclife, etc.; however you spell him, he is best known for “Wyclif’s Bible,” the translation into English of the Bi [...] Keywords: portraits, people, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-26 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1211x1008, 240x200, 2421x2015, 750x624 | Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)A Short History of the English People (1902) This is said to be the oldest surviving wooden church in England, and is dedicated to Saint Andrew. It was built within 50 years of the Norman Conquest (before or after), probably in place of an older [...] Keywords: churches, anglosaxon remains, buildings, spires, medieval architecture, architecture, greyscale Places shown: Greensted; Essex; England Added: 2025-01-28 + S K L R N |
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