Historical Enthusiast Gifts

'You are always living in the past!'

'Pay and display' parking outside a saloon.

'It's four and a half minutes slow.'

Then/Now.

In the olden days - smoking compared to leprosy.

'Yes, it is a 'wonderful discovery'. But whatever you do, don't touch it!'

Jeremy Bentham

This castle manager job better be for real.

Dinner Party Conversation

Young gentlemen talking about wine and dining

Mahatma Gandhi

'We were going to build three more and a roof but we got, you know... lazy.'

'I'm sorry Karl... but we've had a vote... and we feel you aren't what we're looking for!'

'Mobile still warm. White man here 10, maybe 15 minutes ago.'

A procession of the unemployed

Illustration from 'The Artist's Son'.

'It's a 'Downton Abbey' prequel.'

'It's a Sioux blog about their clean air policy,'

Archers.

'My teacher assigned us to read a presidential biography. DO you have such an audio book?'

Banana Republic of America

Disraeli's Bitter Attacks on Sir Robert Peel

Destitute Mother and Daughter Selling Brush

The International and May Day Terrorism

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Drunkard's Children - Daughter in Dancing Rooms, on Course to Prostitution

'I'm sorry, but I'm looking for a rich man who will protect, care and provide for me.'

"Your resume is remarkably similar to our CEO's."

'Just sit down on the floor- We're going to try the Pleistocene diet.'

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

'Oh, thanks for the memories.'

The invention of the fag break.

The popular tourist attraction of England's Cheddar cave paintings.

'And as a committed Royalist you'd be witnessing this historic event at Westminster Abbey.... or the King's Head.'

The Elephant Man makes his famous declaration.