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An encounter between a dog and a fox published in the Sporting Magazine, #London May 31st 1815. 'sport' for mankind, but a matter of life and death for Mr Fox
Here is the splendid full panorama of the evacuation of British Tourists from their boat at Boulogne on May 31st 1792, complete with French welcoming committee
Forget Dunkirk, here is the evacuation of some British tourist invaders from their boat on the sands at Boulogne, on May 31st 1792
I hope thistle please Scottish historians: A carriage crashes in the glens, exposing its driver's bare arse to the sky
'Hold your hound Mun, Hold your Hound!
_en truth mun; e'n gin ye na mind yoursel
youl just make the Muckle Laird coupeing his Creels!'
#Gillray May 25th 1805
Order! Order! Out of Order!
Its May 20th 1814 and violence breaks out in a Committee Room in the Houses of Parliament as a #London MP takes aim at a member for Surrey after a spat about proposed reforms to the Post Office
A quiet morning in Little Winchester Street in the City of #London by John Wykeham Archer (1850)
May 1809 and Sir David Dundas replaces the scandalised Duke of York as Commander in Chief of the Army, bringing a new floral style to his appointment, #London May 1809
This Michael Portillo lookalike is looking extremely uncomfortable with the attention he is receiving from two ladies during a frolicsome assembly in #London, January 1820
#London May 1809 with the domestic service industry facing an unemployment crisis, and the aristocracy lacking sufficient vacancies for them to fill