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: The Death of Mansur al-Hallaj October 7, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Persia’s Socratean moment as Persian mystic Mansur al-Hallaj is killed in Baghdad 922
Daily History Picture: Georgian Flirtation October 6, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Love this image of flirting in a Georgian garden, but what extraordinarily hard faces…. The two know the game.
Daily History Picture: Cocaine Toothache Drops October 5, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Cocaine toothache drops, for tiny tots who can’t get to sleep…
Daily History Picture: Christopher Robin with Poo October 3, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A.A. Milne’s son with his beloved bear: a posed photo of Pooh and Christopher Robin?
Daily History Picture: Martyrs of Nagasaki October 2, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A particularly murderous episode in Japanese history
Daily History Picture: Black Power! October 1, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
In 1968 at the Olympics
Daily History Picture: Massacre on the Day of Bartholomew September 30, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Massacre in Paris of Protestants, 1572.
Daily History Picture: Fat and Slim September 29, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A photograph from the 1890s showing a side-show couple: fat boy and slim boy boxing.
Daily History Picture: Blitzed Books September 27, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A bookshop hit by German bombs, Britain, 1940.
Daily History Picture: Medieval Circumcision September 26, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
The earliest European picture of cirumcision? Oh for anaesthetic or laughing gas.
Daily History Picture: Charlie Chaplin Meets Ghandi September 20, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
A meeting between two comic geniuses? Ghandi and Charlie Chaplin
Daily History Picture: First British Mermaid? September 19, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Coventina was a Romano-British goddess or undine associated with a well in the north of England.
Daily History Picture: Tricking Medieval Tiger September 18, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Knight gives tiger mirror while stealing cub: early thirteenth century, Bestiary of the Second Family.
Daily History Picture: Ali is Angry September 17, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Perhaps the most best picture of Muhammad Ali, towering over Sonny Liston
Daily History Picture: Parisian Kids in Shock September 16, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures
Children in Paris when the dragon is killed in a puppet show, 1963.
