//=time() ?>
A set of skiing postcards by Carlo Pellegrini (1866-1937) from 1907, a time when winter sports were really beginning to take off. Just added to the @Mary_Evans from the Grenville Collins Postcard Collection.
「Aconite」
KP:しきぼんさん PL:桜子さん(Taylor=Lummis・Mascarpone)、とるさん(Maynard=Cole)、タロさん(Randolph=Wilfred)、ソラ(Roy Grenville)
3生還1ロストでシナリオ終幕です。苦しかったけど凄く楽しかったです…!これが…Aconite…!いや好きだな…ありがとうございました…!!
From our #archives, #otd 1924, Albert, Duke of York - later King George VI - at the controls of a Glasgow Tram, which he drove for more than a mile to the depot. Photo in The Coronation Book of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ©Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans
First and second rates Victory, Temeraire and Neptune forming line at Trafalgar, painting by Richard Grenville.
#RoyalNavy #Trafalgar
We thought we'd join in with #MapMonday, and found this gem in the archives. from circa 1910 - a map of Ladies and Gentleman's Clubs of the West End of London. Unattributed postcard from the Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans
It's #NationalStorytellingWeek this week, so if you're sitting comfortably.... A bearded old sea dog tells a wild and scary fisherman's tale: "Now when you chaps are listenin' I've got a yarn or two to spin." Postcard from Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans
It's #NationalHatDay, apparently! Among the 53,000 images of titfers of all shapes and sizes we have here @Mary_Evans are these satires from c1900 on the fashion for women to wear huge and enveloping hats. Postcard illustrations by 'B. L.' from the Grenville Collins collection
From our #archives, George V & the Abbas II Helmy Bey, Khedive of Egypt pictured on board the HMS Medina at Port Said #otd 1911. The royal couple were visiting Egypt on their return from the Royal Durbar in India. Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans #Royalty
The Winding Road, #art #painting by Reginald Grenville Eves (May 24, 1876 – June 13/4, 1941) @TheBowesMuseum https://t.co/wsd7TY5nYB
The dastardly Grand Master of course is cheating. His mount Midnight Madness is a carnivorous battledragon in disguise, & Duke Grenville is carrying real weapons. And no one apart from you & Quenelda knows her father the Earl Rufus is in deadly danger. What happens next? read on.
"The Prince of Whales, or the fishermen at anchor" (1812): the Prince Regent depicted as a whale (subtle), spouting the "Dew of Favor" onto Spencer Perceval and his followers and the "Liquor of Oblivion" onto Grey, Grenville and the opposition. #royalty #history #twitterstorians
#Mantle #influence of syn- to late-Grenvillian alkaline magmatism in the Grenville Province: causes and implications
https://t.co/59Ks2Idj7Y