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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

questionableadvice: ~ The English Review, May 1915

questionableadvice:

~ The English Review, May 1915

abject-reptile: Moyennes constructions. Série de guerre. N° 1, Les Zeppelins sur Paris. Imagerie d’Epinal, Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit. [Epinal, 1915]

abject-reptile:

Moyennes constructions. Série de guerre. N° 1, Les Zeppelins sur Paris. Imagerie d’Epinal, Pellerin et Cie, imp.-édit. [Epinal, 1915]

questionableadvice: ~ The Mirror of Australia, (Sydney, NSW), October 23, 1915via Trove“…no connection with Germans - either naturalised or unnaturalised. It’s a National Drink and a National Sentiment that prompts Australians to Drink it.”

questionableadvice:

~ The Mirror of Australia, (Sydney, NSW), October 23, 1915
via Trove

“…no connection with Germans - either naturalised or unnaturalised. It’s a National Drink and a National Sentiment that prompts Australians to Drink it.”

(via northernbriton)

ratatoskm15: The cover of Blast magazine by Wyndham Lewis. Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed

ratatoskm15:

The cover of Blast magazine by Wyndham Lewis.

Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed

gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie: In a scene that could have been pulled straight from H. G. Wells’ classic War in the Air, a mighty air and sea battle between German and British forces is imagined in this fanciful 1915 Japanese lithograph. Japan, which had almost no experience with military aviation, had joined The Great War on the side of the Allies in August of 1914.  Its citizens, curious about events in the West, avidly purchased lithographs like this because news photographs were difficult to obtain and to reproduce. (via Knights of the Air: WWI as envisioned by the Japanese (circa 1915) - Dieselpunks)

gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie:

In a scene that could have been pulled straight from H. G. Wells’ classic War in the Air, a mighty air and sea battle between German and British forces is imagined in this fanciful 1915 Japanese lithograph.

Japan, which had almost no experience with military aviation, had joined The Great War on the side of the Allies in August of 1914.  Its citizens, curious about events in the West, avidly purchased lithographs like this because news photographs were difficult to obtain and to reproduce.

(via Knights of the Air: WWI as envisioned by the Japanese (circa 1915) - Dieselpunks)

questionableadvice: ~ The English Review, May 1915

questionableadvice:

~ The English Review, May 1915

beautifulcentury: Ilustração Portugueza, No. 491, May 10 1915 - back cover on Flickr. Click image for 874 x 1298 size. Portuguese ad for tailor Old England, Lisbon, Portugal.

beautifulcentury:

Ilustração Portugueza, No. 491, May 10 1915 - back cover on Flickr.

Click image for 874 x 1298 size.

Portuguese ad for tailor Old England, Lisbon, Portugal.

asya-yay: It’s quite a burn to Germany and Kaiser Wilhelm. I think it would have done better to use an image of Kaiser Franz Josef to be more figurative and literal, but Wilhelm/Germany was likely more recognisable as the enemy to British readers as well as their primary antagonist in the war.  (originally published in “Punch” magazine in 1915) scanned photo from the website: http://www.pictorialgems.com/1915-Sick-Man-Of-Europe-Kaiser-Takes-Turkeys-Cot.39243 

asya-yay:

It’s quite a burn to Germany and Kaiser Wilhelm. I think it would have done better to use an image of Kaiser Franz Josef to be more figurative and literal, but Wilhelm/Germany was likely more recognisable as the enemy to British readers as well as their primary antagonist in the war. 

(originally published in “Punch” magazine in 1915)

scanned photo from the website: http://www.pictorialgems.com/1915-Sick-Man-Of-Europe-Kaiser-Takes-Turkeys-Cot.39243 

(via lord-kitschener)

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Only a bias that is friendly to the evils of this age, only a prepossession in favour of our materialistic, mechanical, unscrupulous and supinely irresponsible civilisation of “Progress,” could so distort the facts as to make Charles I appear as the felon, and the ignoble band of grasping, bigoted and filthy-minded Puritans as the just accusers, in this historical trial and tragedy.”

“The Grand Rebellion, or the so-called Civil War of the seventeenth century, was as much the first struggle between the new, vulgar spirit of the nation and the old, declining better taste of the nation as it was a contest between Puritan and High Churchman, or of King and Commons. I submit that it was on the battlefields of Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby that trade first advanced in open hostility against tradition, quantity against quality, capitalistic industry against agriculture and the old industry of the Guilds, vulgarity against taste, machinery against craftsmanship, grey and mournful Puritanism against cheerful and ruddy Paganism—in fact, plebeian democracy against aristocracy.

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—

Anthony Ludovici (via tremblingcolors)

A Defence of Aristocracy. (1915)

questionableadvice: ~ Benson’s Woman’s Club Cook Book, 1915“Freak and Stage Dancing is not taught or indulged in.” Jolly good show.

questionableadvice:

~ Benson’s Woman’s Club Cook Book, 1915

“Freak and Stage Dancing is not taught or indulged in.”

Jolly good show.