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@AgeofNapoleon Here’s a strange one I stumbled across earlier: ‘Napoleon the Lawmaker’, by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (1833).
Humphrey Spender’s cinematic shots of the Newcastle Commercial Exchange from 1938.
1932. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle (big hat) & the Mayors of Jarrow, Tynemouth, Wallsend, Gateshead & So Shields on the Tyne-built HMS Malaya
The weirdly named Scottish peer Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (and briefly Liberal Prime Minister, 1894-5) at a fancy dress ball.
These portraits by the Scots artist William Strang (1859-1921) are uncannily Holbeinesque.
On a diplomatic mission to Scotland Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II (1458-1464) passed thru Newcastle. Here's what he thought
Napoleon suffered one of his few defeats OTD in 1809 when Archduke Karl's white-coated Austrians prevailed at Aspern