Flying, 1920s Style
A terrific set of cigarette cards depicting a flight from London to Amsterdam in the early days of commercial air travel. The images (each “from an official photograph supplied by…
Scotland by Photochrom
Another set of photochroms! (for a couple more details on photochroms, see this post; basically they are photographs crossed with lithograms). Today, a tour of Scotland, 1890s. Library of Congress…
1950s Banff, in Colour
About this time last year I posted photographs of Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Now, Banff is one of my favourite places…
Farewells
Beautiful and sad. (you may want to get the tissues if you’re anything like me). A series of photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt (see Kissing the War Away) portraying the kisses…
Tea, the Soldier's Drink
Sometimes even– or especially– in the midst of war, you just need a cup of tea. (Especially when you’re British…. so much so, in fact, that this will be a…
The Queen of Romance
The Queen of Romance in the 1930’s was Mrs. Wallis Simpson Edwina H. Wilson in her book ‘Her Name was Wallis Warfield’ published in 1936, gives this amazing picture of…
Fireside Talks with Stanley Baldwin
In the 1920’s with the advent of the radio, diiferent styles of broadcasting could be the difference between an election victory or defeat, as Vivian Ogilvie expressed in 1953 in…
Going to the Tavern
The Three Merry Coblers “Come, follow, follow me! To th’ alehouse weele march all three;Leave aule, last, threed and lether, and let’s goe altogether;Our trade excells most trades i’th’ land,…
The Second Defenestration of Prague
The Second Defenestration of Prague was an event central to the initiation of the Thirty Years War which began in 1618. In his book S. Gardiner ‘Epochs of Modern History…
Dr. L.C. Miller – A Missouri Bushwhacker
This amazing article appeared in the Sunday Sedalia Capital dated February 1910. Dr. Lee C Miller was with Quantrell until 1864 and took part in all the major raids. His…