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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: Take Another Piece of My Heart April 17, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Take Another Piece of My Heart

    Late medieval cannibalism

    Daily History Picture: Exorcism! April 16, 2015

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

    Get thee gone, Demon!

    Daily History Picture: Last Rites in Vietnam April 15, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Last Rites in Vietnam

      Dickey Chapelle celebrated American photographer has just trod on a mine.    

    Daily History Picture: Irish History April 14, 2015

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

    Loved this!

    Daily History Picture: Gas Chambers April 13, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Gas Chambers

    Allegedly the walls of the gas chamber at Auschwitz. not been able to confirm…

    Daily History Picture: Sad Burial April 12, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Sad Burial

    Netherlands, a Protestant, Catholic couple divided in death…

    Daily History Picture: Einstein and the Indians April 10, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Einstein and the Indians

    By far the best Einstein picture I know…

    Daily History Picture: Goodbye Zanjeer April 9, 2015

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

    Zanjeer was a detection dog who saved tens of lives at Mumbai in 1993. He is honoured here with a full state funeral at his death in 2000.    

    Daily History Picture: Brit-French Cheers April 8, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Brit-French Cheers

    Sharing a tea?

    Daily History Picture: GIs and Dutch Children April 7, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: GIs and Dutch Children

    GIs paraded by Dutch children in national dress at liberation

    Daily History Picture: A Cuppa for Frankenstein April 6, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: A Cuppa for Frankenstein

    Boris Karloff has a cup of tea and tries to relax between scenes

    Daily History Picture: Santa in the Blitz April 5, 2015

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

    Father Christmas with a British helmet walks through London, 1940

    Daily History Picture: Castro and Khrushchev March 31, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Castro and Khrushchev

    Ah, the tolerant smile… Two friends with poor Marx on the wall behind: what would he have said about goons like this…

    Daily History Picture: Anti-German Poster March 30, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Anti-German Poster

    Russian propaganda from WW1. Love the Russian thrashing the German soldier…

    Daily History Picture: Medieval Demons March 29, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
    Daily History Picture: Medieval Demons

    They are angry, very angry….