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Front cover
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
The front cover; the book is bound in plain buckram, with a cute design on the front of a gnome or pixie curled up reading a book, done in red and black with goild foil. The pixie is available as a se [...]
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Title page detail: Scholarly King
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled.
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cartoons, scholars, books, royalty, humour, greyscale
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The Discovery of Tin in Britain
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin.
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people, boats, soldiers, weapons, romans, cartoons, humour, greyscale
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Cæsar treating with the Britons
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
Cæsar (the Roman emperor) sits cross-legged on the ground, sharing a Native American peace pipe with the barefooted Britons. Of course, tobacco was not known in the ancient Western world; it came from [...]
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pipes, humour, cartoons, people, bare feet, beards, greyscale
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Ploughing 51 B.C.
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
“Agriculture had a pretty hard start among these people, and where now the glorious fields of splendid pale and billowy oatmeal may be seen interspersed with every kind of domestic and imported fertil [...]
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people, cartoons, humour, agriculture, animals, horses, rocks, unicorns, mythical creatures, greyscale
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Added: 2006-06-28
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The Vigil of Arms
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
“The most peculiar condition required for entry into knighthood was the “vigil of arms,” which consisted in keeping a long silent watch in some gloomy spot—a haunted one preferred—over the arms he was [...]
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people, cartoons, humour, spooky, ghosts, occult, interiors, greyscale
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Crest of a Popular Knight
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
“He wore a crest on his helmet adorned with German favors given him by lady admirers, so that the crest of a popular young knight often looked like a slump at the
Bon marché
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people, cartoons, humour, knights, helmets, greyscale
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A Reluctant Tax-Payer
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
It is night-time and a man’s corpose swings from the hangman’s noose on the gibbet. He is clothed, including boots and a hangman’s hood. In the background the moon looks on, aghast. At one time most p [...]
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spooky, death, people, punishments, gibbets, gallows, cartoons, humour, greyscale
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detail: swinging corpse
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
This is a version ofA Reluctant Tax Payerwith the background cut away, to make a more powerful (but less moody) image.A dead man is shown hung by the neck, “you are to be taken from this place and han [...]
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spooky, death, people, punishments, gibbets, gallows, cartoons, humour, greyscale
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detail: swinging corpse: silhouette
Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)
A version of theswinging corposecartoon with the details obliterated, leaving just an outline.
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spooky, death, people, punishments, gibbets, gallows, cartoons, humour, silhouettes, greyscale
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