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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: VE in the Fountain October 5, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: VE in the Fountain

    Two British sailors and friends in the fountains at Trafalgar Square

    Daily History Picture: New Technologies October 4, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: New Technologies

    Loved this…

    Daily History Picture: Rage Against the Patriarchy! October 3, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Rage Against the Patriarchy!

    Fighting against Miss America

    Daily History Picture: Civil War Skulls September 29, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Civil War Skulls

    Sometime after the Battle of the Wilderness…

    Daily History Picture: Skating in Early 1800s September 28, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Skating in Early 1800s

    Love the ‘Dangerous’ and the little girl…

    Daily History Picture: Knights of the Circumference September 27, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Knights of the Circumference

    Bit weak, but it appealed…

    Daily History Picture: Siegfried Sassoon Autograph Copy September 26, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Siegfried Sassoon Autograph Copy

    ‘Good morning! Good morning’ the general said

    Daily History Picture: Siege of Tripoli September 23, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Siege of Tripoli

    The end of the crusader states: pity those in the walls….

    Daily History Picture: British Shell Shock? September 22, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: British Shell Shock?

    Or just a chance bad photograph which has been ‘reinterpreted’? James B, 29 Sep 2016: Beach the problem with photographs likes this, the problem with all photographs is that a moment of life is immortalized and we then interpret the moment. I suspect the guy was just caught in a maturing smile. A post of […]

    Daily History Picture: Persian Monarch September 21, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Persian Monarch

    Shah Abbas: love the colour…

    Daily History Picture: Civil War Photograph September 20, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Civil War Photograph

    Mississippi, master and slave

    Daily History Picture: Saying Goodbye September 19, 2016

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

    US servicemen going overseas…

    Daily History Picture: Kissing Hitler September 16, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Kissing Hitler

    Admirer (American) comes to kiss Adolf Hitler…

    Daily History Picture: Petain and Hitler September 15, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Petain and Hitler

    No smiles here…

    Daily History Picture: British Anti-Semitism September 13, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: British Anti-Semitism

    !!!! ‘A Custom’