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: Dragon Sleeps with Queen November 28, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
But don’t tell the king! 12 cent?? [actually late medieval!!!!] 30 Dec 2014: Typhon to the rescue: Concerning the picture you put up(the Dragon in bed with the queen) I have seen it before and I think it is from Les faize d’Alexandre, a French translation of the Historia Alexandri Magni done by Vasco da […]
Daily History Picture: Friendly Demons November 27, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Demons from the Livre du Roi. Surely hell can’t be that bad?
Daily History Picture: Dorothy Counts at School November 26, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Dorothy Counts in a ‘white’ high school in North Carolina in 1957. She lasted four days… And today the school library is named after her.
Daily History Picture: Deportation From Greece November 25, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Murder of innocents as Greece’s millennia old Jewish community are brought to the camps.
Daily History Picture: Dog Fight November 24, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Dog fight in the London sky in the summer of 1940: Though many brave unwritten tales Were simply told in vapour trails
Daily History Picture: Chasing Gnome? November 23, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Twelfth century?? Note strange feet of the yellow trousered one.
Daily History Picture: Hungarian Execution November 21, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Bardossy, ex Hungarian Prime Minister, executed in 1946 in Budapest. The tides of history…
Daily History Picture: Bad Cats November 20, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Would you leave the kids at home with these three?
Daily History Picture: Ali Love Pele November 19, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Two of the most charismatic sportsmen of all time embrace.
Daily History Picture: ‘Oakies’ Out West November 18, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Family on the run from the dustbowl.
Daily History Picture: Playing Medieval Chess November 17, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A fourteenth-century chess game. What’s the blue bag for on high?
Daily History Picture: Elizabeth in the Puddle November 16, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Sparse 19 cent version of Elizabeth walking in the puddle, note the pipe!
Daily History Picture: Thirteenth-Century Hunt November 14, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
What is the red bull? Tony B with the answer: The Red Bull is a Bonacon, a fabulous creature perhaps based on the European Bison or Wisent, which levels whole sections of forest with its farts. It also defends itself with them. The only reason it’s familiar is that I once painted a Bestiary […]
Daily History Picture: Canadian Tanks November 13, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Late WW2, Canadian Tank troops deep in France
Daily History Picture: Concentration Camp Revenge November 12, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The Nazi ordered forward by the prisoner
