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Despite successfully out-doing Frankenstein whilst being fitted out at Mr Tightfit's #London salon, Duke of St Albans fears that his man-spreading tendency can only undermine his hopes of winning RuPaul's Drag Race for the summer of 1827
You’ll find me in the Green Gate Tavern, on the City Road, playing a few games of billiards with a pint of Whitbread in my hand, #London 1852
Elsewhere in #London there were scenes of despair for budding socialites unable to gain entry to the newly appointed Prince Regent's legendary Fete which was staged at Carlton House, June 19th 1811
King Louis XVI and wife Marie Antoinette shown thwarted by the mob having bid to escape incarceration by French Revolutionary forces in this satire published in #London, June 27th 1791
Another shameful type of enslavement that blighted the streets of #London during the Georgian era - A showman tugging at the chained muzzle of a 'dancing' bear, June 25th 1785
An absolutely gorgeous drawing of #Hackney Church by John Varley, dated July 21st 1830
Anyone for tennis?
Blucher and #Wellington warming up for a bit of a knockabout using #Napoleon as a ball, with Satan kindly taking time out from hell to do a bit of umpiring, a French satire published June 1814
The Battle of #Waterloo re-imagined as a Littlewoods catalogue of fashionable military dress, featuring (l-r) the Prince of Orange, Duke of Brunswick, #Wellington Hill, Picton, Blucher and the Marquess of Anglesey, published in #London, June 16th 1817
Prussian Genetal Blucher enthralled #Wellington and the European sovereigns with some super dance moves during a #Waterloo victory fete at #Wanstead House in July 1814
Whereas in #London, our citizens think nothing of taking the odd statue out for a walk. Here is the Duke of #Wellington having a trundle round Park Lane in the summer of 1846