British History Aficionado Pillows

King Canute's immigration policy fails to work

Henry VIII

Florence Nightingale

"I see no ships!"

'We're saved! Maggie Thatcher has come out of retirement.'

In 1842 the mighty British army beat a hasty retreat from Heckler Pass."

King George I

Augustus Fitzroy

"And that was the national news....Now for the obligatory 'end-of-the-news' World War Two item, to get the whole nation nostalgic for Churchill, powdered egg and mass slaughter..."

'Hardy I see no chips!'

'Who are you calling ancient?'

King James II

King Edward V

Earl of Rosebery

Edward Stanley

Eadwig

Brittania Left Exposed to Napoleon by Squabbling Pitt, Addington and Fox

King Arthur on the lake trying to open letters when the lady of the lake offers a letter opener.

Sir Winston Churchill

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

Disraeli Stands for 'British Interests' Against Russian Expansionism

'Time machine materialises in Westminster Lord Lucan arrested'

William Pitt the Elder

William Bentinck

Horatio Nelson

Bank of England Suspends Gold Payments Following Run on the Banks

John Bull Devouring the French Navy

King Richard I

Frenchman Speaking to Englishman

William Lamb

Queen Anne

Richard Owen

David Lloyd George

Charles I

House of Lords Resists Reform