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: Amelia’s Last Hair Cut December 17, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Amelia Earhart before rushing off for that round world flight…
Daily History Picture: Left Right Change December 16, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
1967 Sweden changes driving from left to right: curiously fatalaties dropped…
Daily History Picture: Dog Fight Over Parliament December 15, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Battle of Britain shot from the summer of 1940 with Parliament in the foreground. 30 Dec 2014: Andy the Mad Monk writes, ‘Sadly this picture is photoshopped. The original does not have the clock tower in the foreground. Link to a copy of the original pic – note it is copyright to the Imperial War Museum […]
Daily History Picture: Medieval Aristotle Reads in his Study December 14, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The great scholastic hero, Aristotle, shown at work in his study.
Daily History Picture: Hat Madness December 12, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
New York 1939, when everyone wore hats…
Daily History Picture: Knocker Up December 11, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Early twentieth-century Britain a knocker up passes through the streets: I wonder how much this service costs, or did the factory put it on?
Daily History Picture: Carter Meets Tut December 10, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Carter meets Tutankhaman: the sargophagus is opened.
Daily History Picture: Kennedy Meets Clinton December 9, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
24 July 1963, a sixteen year old Bill Clinton meets J.F.Kennedy at the Whitehouse, three months before Kennedy’s fateful trip south.
Daily History Picture: Working in Medieval Fields December 8, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Beautiful fifteenth century Book of Hours. Love the bare feet…
Daily History Picture: Boiler Blow Up December 5, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Early train disaster, the fear of travelling by rail in the early nineteenth century.
Daily History Picture: Heads Turn for Kim Nowak December 4, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Ignore the movie star, Kim Nowak, as she sits and look at the faces in the dining car, 1956
Daily History Picture: The Last British Battleship Scrapped December 3, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
HMS Vanguard goes on its last voyage towards the scrapyard, 1960. It took two years to break her up.
Daily History Picture: German POWs after Verdun December 2, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
German soldiers being stripped as they begin prison life in France
Daily History Picture: Medieval Rabbit Kills! December 2, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Unknown medieval manuscript: Watership Down goes horribly wrong as an executioner rabbit takes out a knight in slow motion
Daily History Picture: Churchill Swims November 30, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Churchill, 1920s?
