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  • Some of the best historical photos, images, maps and graphics that we have found on the web and in books. This history by picture is history as you have not seen it before. Enjoy!

    Daily History Picture: Artillery Forward March 10, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Artillery Forward

    Soviet artillery dragged into the Oder.

    Daily History Picture: Soviet Witches March 9, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Soviet Witches

    Night-time Soviet Women Flyers…. Note the medals.

    Daily History Picture: Sound Finders March 8, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Sound Finders

    Sounds finders allegedly from WW1. They are listening for planes….

    Daily History Picture: Goodbye! March 7, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Goodbye!

    Naval sweethearts say goodbye. Love the bags…

    Daily History Picture: Socrates Criminal March 6, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Socrates Criminal

    Sorry… Nathaniel, an old friend of this blog, 30 Mar 2017, sends this in. We clearly have a genre. I (Beach) prefer the Christ one.

    Daily History Picture: Rabbit Hell March 3, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Rabbit Hell

    Another picture of rabbit murderers from the Middle Ages…

    Daily History Picture: History is Fiction March 2, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: History is Fiction

    Sorry…

    Daily History Picture: Small Frisks Big February 28, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Small Frisks Big

    Tiny British soldiers checks a giant German prisoner for weapons

    Daily History Picture: Sleeping in the Underground February 27, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Sleeping in the Underground

    1940 or 1941, even the elevators and stairs…

    Daily History Picture: Faceless Buddha February 24, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Faceless Buddha

    The magnificent buddhas of Bamiyan

    Daily History Picture: Cat Deities and Boxes February 23, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Cat Deities and Boxes

    Sorry…

    Daily History Picture: Selling Coats February 22, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Selling Coats

    Selling coats Danish style: Copenhagen 1936

    Daily History Picture: Electric Fairy February 21, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Electric Fairy

    British exhibition in the 1950s. A fairy shows children how electrical appliances will transform the home…

    Daily History Picture: Training Wives February 20, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Training Wives

    This was an advertising style for a while. It would be interesting to do a post… 23 Feb 2017: EC I don’t have proof but that picture just screams “modern fake”. I mean, the woman is nude under her apron – THAT wasn’t an advertising style back then! And both that address and that organisation […]

    Daily History Picture: Maastricht Rebels February 16, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Maastricht Rebels

    Six Tory MPs: 1992 (?) fronted by Teresa Gorman, one of the UK’s more eccentric MPs in the later 20C.