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Obviously #Christmas cheer isn't for everybody , here's a French satire of a harridan on Christmas Day, breathing fire and with a casque on her head, December 25th 1819
Its #ChristmasEve and six horses are drawing the #Norwich coach towards #London across a snow covered plain, the coach fully loaded with baskets and animals hanging, one of the coachmen catching goose with his whip, and the sea in the distance. December 24th 1820
William #Pitt the Younger in the commonplace Prime Ministerial position of being a toadstool on the dung heap of British politics, #London December 20th 1791 #StupidPeople
Meet the Houndsditch Macaroni - just one of the joyful sights on show in the #London festive season, 20th December 1772
In memory of Monday December 17th 1783 - Prime Minister William #Pitt the Younger (dressed as a gladiator) with Britannia and the British Lion, defends the 'British Constitution' from the hydra of Charles James Fox and his cronies
Prime Minister #Pitt the Younger intruding upon one of John Bull's last remaining luxuries, namely the privacy of his toilet, with yet another taxation demand to fund the war effort, December 16th 1797
Lampoon of the followers of fashion following the nowadays familiar trope of attacking the larger sized woman from 'Cheapside' for her efforts to emulate the classier West End model, #London December 9th 1794
Desperate deeds desperate times.
My thesis needs me so I must depart this place and commit my all to that noble enterprise before all is lost.
I will miss you all but hope to return in glory.
Until then...
A wonderful early example of English eccentricity. Meet George Wilson, aka the Blackheath Pedestrian, who walked 1000 miles around #Blackheath Common in 20 days during the summer of 1815