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You'll often see just a flash of blue as these colourful birds fly past, but if you're very lucky you may see them perched and ready to dive for fish! These kingfishers are from John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', Vol. 2, 1873. #LondonRiversWeek
Britains political landscape, turned upside down, looks like Marge Simpsons' mum Jacqueline Bouvier.
The great Stan Laurel was just named Britain's greatest comedian. Here's a doodle of Laurel & Hardy I made a little while ago. Love these guys! #StanLaurel @Stan_And_Ollie
Another great #cartoon exhibition opens soon at @WestRefLib @WCCLibraries with work by Britain's finest cartoonists inc #KateTaylor @TSMCartoons #NoelFord - don't miss it!
For almost five years 1807-1812, Russia was allied to Napoleon & an enemy of Britain. But the Royal Navy was aggressively active in the Baltic against Russian forces, no ship more daring than HMS Implacable. Click: https://t.co/iZYJl6PeqX #RoyalNavy #Napoleonic #MaritimeHistory
That time Boris said Britain was a culture of “easy gratification” and we’re all lazy. #Boris4PM #borisjohnson #easygratification
Its 200 years since Queen Victoria's birth. ‘Her Majesty’s Jubilee Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain’ held at the MRC celebrated firms operating in the 50th year of her reign incl. a London photographic apparatus manufacturer. Come and take a look! Qto Ref T26.G7.
My picture of Dutch artist, Vincent van Gogh work of art 'Still Life with Plaster statuette' painting. The plaster cast of Venus was made by Van Gogh and in the artwork he put a flower & French realist novels. At 'The Ey Exhibition Van Gogh and Britain' @Tate Britain London
“Hold up a post office, Knuckles? Where we gonna find one of them?” PAUL THOMAS on Britain's declining Post Offices - political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6
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Some photographs of the Royal Gala Dinner celebrating the completion of the conservation of Thornhill’s 20-year masterpiece, over 40,000 square foot of art, often called Britain’s Sistine Chapel. The guest of honour was HRH The Princess Royal.
@orncgreenwich #Greenwich #London
On this day in 1756, Britain officially declares war on France. Both powers have already been fighting for at least two years in the wilderness of North America.
Hedgehog folklore! Why do people give hedgehogs milk, when the prickly things are lactose intolerant? Maybe the legacy of an older folkloric idea, still common in mid C20th Britain, that hedgehogs suckled milk from cows?
#FolkloreThursday @hedgehogsociety @WildlifeTrusts
TOUR OF DUTY
@FineArtClifton continue their tour of Great Britain, next stop… Glasgow Contempory Art Fair.
#art #glasgow #screenprinting #fox #police
Just think, in around 1644, in Oxford, after all that had happened to religion in Britain under the Tudors, there was an English painter at work producing Caravaggesque night scenes! And I write about him in the Sunday Times today! Stand up and cheer for William Dobson!
Betsy kills an alternate reality Brian who trie to attack her.
Captain Britain #7&8 (1985)
Brighty: Following the very sad news of the passing of one of Britain's greatest political figures, Lord Toby Jug, my cartoon for today's Sun... #TheresaMay #ToryLeadership #BrexitDelay #BrexitShambles #EU - political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6