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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: Philosophy… May 28, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Philosophy...

    Socrates makes his contribution to world history. Then there was sociology…

    Daily History Picture: Blitz Santa May 27, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Blitz Santa

    Ho, ho, ho!

    Daily History Picture: English Knight May 26, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: English Knight

    Always love the crests…

    Daily History Picture: Commonwealth Sword May 25, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Commonwealth Sword

    Remarkable sword from the Civil War: brings out my inner cavalier.

    Daily History Picture: Salvador Dali and His Pets May 24, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Salvador Dali and His Pets

    Paris, anteaters…

    Daily History Picture: Roman Emperors Die May 24, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Roman Emperors Die

    How the chaps in purple bought it…

    Daily History Picture: Raid! May 23, 2016

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

    Raid on an illegal whisky still in prohibition…

    Daily History Picture: Killing Knight? May 20, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Killing Knight?

    Not sure what is going on here, but my guess is a peasant is finishing off a knight, possible with the knight’s sword. 23 May 2016, lots of emails pointing out what should have been obvious. This is David on Goliath. D’oh. E.g. Tarcangel: Your May 20, 2016 drawing of a “peasant killing a knight” […]

    Daily History Picture: The Big Three May 19, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: The Big Three

    The other big three, Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George: would you put the future of Europe in their hands?

    Daily History Picture: Saintly Man May 18, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Saintly Man

    Unexciting title but this thirteenth century MS has something

    Daily History Picture: More Russian Snipers in Skirts May 17, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: More Russian Snipers in Skirts

    Shiver….

    Daily History Picture: Wanted, Hitler! May 16, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Wanted, Hitler!

    Daily Mirror just as war is declared, a bit late of course…

    Daily History Picture: Castro Meets Hemingway May 13, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Castro Meets Hemingway

    Possibly my two least favourite people in the history of the western hemisphere, hand in hand.

    Daily History Picture: Despoiling May 12, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Despoiling

    Based on the Bayeux Tapestry. Remarkable.

    Daily History Picture: Seeing Jerusalem May 11, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Seeing Jerusalem

    19 Cent Romanticism and bad art but somehow…