Tag Archives: Great Britain

1877: Lights

Posted on August 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Atkinson Grimshaw: Scarborough Lights (1877)

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1836: These Abhorred Vermin Seemed to Become my Friends

Posted on August 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

We report [the following] on the authority of a letter of Joseph Purdew, an observer, equally exact and judicious. “This morning,” he says, “while reading in bed, I was suddenly interrupted by a noise similar to that made by rats, … Continue reading →

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1937: The Daily Worker

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Clive Branson: Selling the “Daily Worker” outside Projectile Engineering Works (1937)

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1885: Bridge

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Atkinson Grimshaw: Battersea Bridge (1885)

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1914: Honour Has Come Back, as a King, to Earth

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Harry Clarke: “Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,” illustration for Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Dead” in The Year’s at the Spring; an Anthology of Recent Poetry (1920). The poem was first published in 1914, in the autumn … Continue reading →

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1857: Bodrum

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

George Frederic Watts: Bodrum, Asia Minor (1857)

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1883: Educate! Agitate! Organize!

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Educate! Agitate! Organize!” This slogan apparently first appeared in print in 1883—in a pamphlet produced by a British organization called the Democratic Federation. The artist and writer William Morris was the treasurer of the group and included the phrase on … Continue reading →

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1871: Llyn Nant-y-Clif

Posted on August 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Leslie: Welsh Landscape, Llyn Nant-y-Clif, North Wales (1871)

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1918: No Bigger than a Bumble-Bee

Posted on August 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

There are some curious old stories told in the Scotch Highlands about dreams. It was believed that when asleep the mind or soul of the sleeper leaves his body and goes far afield, and when he awakes he recalls his … Continue reading →

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1850: The Last Hoopoe Starling

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

FREGILUPUS VARIA As long ago as 1674 a note about the “Huppe” exists, by “Le Sieur D.B.,” i.e., Dubois. He says, when describing the birds of Réunion (translated): “Hoopoes or ‘Callendres,’ having a white tuft on the head, the rest … Continue reading →

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