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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.

youaintpunk: Happy St George’s Day chaps

youaintpunk:

Happy St George’s Day chaps

Legitimism in England

by Melville Henry Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval, and Cranstoun Metcalfe
This article appeared in the September 1897 issue of The Nineteenth Century Review.

In France and in Spain the Legitimist is at any rate taken seriously. In England, according to the man in the street, and according to others in other places, the Legitimist is simply an idiot who is not worth further consideration. Yet among English Legitimists are many men of whose sanity there can be no question, whose integrity is beyond dispute, and whose loyalty to Queen Victoria is unimpeachable. What they are doing in this gallery it is the object of this short article to show.

atompunk: http://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/goodwood-revival.html

atompunk:

http://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/goodwood-revival.html

enchantedengland:   Here is something nice to encounter as you ramble happily through the forest: a Victorian folly, built before the trees grew. Follies are fanciful architecture built solely for decorative purposes, often with a deliberate ‘sham’ effect….such as constructing something to look far older than it actually is. ‘Why, there are Roman ruins in my back garden! How extraordinary!’ This one is near Bingley in West Yorkshire (bingleyman2 flickr)

enchantedengland:

  Here is something nice to encounter as you ramble happily through the forest: a Victorian folly, built before the trees grew. Follies are fanciful architecture built solely for decorative purposes, often with a deliberate ‘sham’ effect….such as constructing something to look far older than it actually is. ‘Why, there are Roman ruins in my back garden! How extraordinary!’ This one is near Bingley in West Yorkshire (bingleyman2 flickr)

thelasttruerebellion: lonerwitch: Christ Standing on Death, Sin and Satan; Engraving made by Crispijn de Passe the Elder. England ca. 1623 O Death, where is thy sting? O Hell, where is thy victory?

thelasttruerebellion:

lonerwitch:

Christ Standing on Death, Sin and Satan; Engraving made by Crispijn de Passe the Elder. England ca. 1623

O Death, where is thy sting? O Hell, where is thy victory?

rantingsofamusicalfascist: derpygrooves: England, as portrayed by these helpfully updated Japanese textbooks. I find this to be rather amusing. I wonder how they would portray Glasgow. Apologies for the swearing - it is however necessary to get the full flavour of the text.

rantingsofamusicalfascist:

derpygrooves:

England, as portrayed by these helpfully updated Japanese textbooks.


I find this to be rather amusing. I wonder how they would portray Glasgow.

Apologies for the swearing - it is however necessary to get the full flavour of the text.

(via thefarmerinthecity)

carolathhabsburg: Prince Alfred o england, duke of Edinburgh and saxe coburg and gotha.

carolathhabsburg:

Prince Alfred o england, duke of Edinburgh and saxe coburg and gotha.

oldbookillustrations: “Hercules” returning from a fancy ball. John Leech, from John Leech, his life and work, by William Powell Frith, London, 1891. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

“Hercules” returning from a fancy ball.

John Leech, from John Leech, his life and work, by William Powell Frith, London, 1891.

(Source: archive.org)

(Source: oldbookillustrations)

oldbookillustrations: Special constable: Now mind, you know - if I kill you, it’s nothing; but if you kill me, by Jove! it’s murder! John Leech, from John Leech, his life and work vol 1, by William Powell Frith, London, 1891. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Special constable: Now mind, you know - if I kill you, it’s nothing; but if you kill me, by Jove! it’s murder!

John Leech, from John Leech, his life and work vol 1, by William Powell Frith, London, 1891.

(Source: archive.org)

(Source: oldbookillustrations)

oldbookillustrations: “Fiddle-faddle” fashions. John Leech, from John Leech, his life and work, by William Powell Frith, London, 1891. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

“Fiddle-faddle” fashions.

John Leech, from John Leech, his life and work, by William Powell Frith, London, 1891.

(Source: archive.org)

(Source: oldbookillustrations)