Historical Satire Gifts

'Paul! The British are coming! You have to go spread the word!'

Indian: 'Got any Products for a dry, flaky scalp?'

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

John Bull presenting the building for the 1862 International Exhibition to Britannia

"I don't get it. We hunt. We gather. When do you find the time to accessorize?"

'It looks like another victim of Jack the Rapper, Sarge!'

'I knew I shouldn't have come. That Maximus, throws the worst orgies!'

William the Conkerer 1066

"Hey, the neighbors just installed a new wifi router."

'Cannonball!'

"What the...They wrapped me in toilet paper!"

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Dead Cat Crown Jewels

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

Volcano Sacrifice Competition

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding as written and as it would have been written if David Hume had invested in a word processor,

It started friendly enough...'I'm Henry VIII, my dear, but you may call me 'Hank'.'

Mortally Wounded at the Battle of Quebec, General James Wolfe Forgets His Last Words

"Actually, I think it's a cluster of SCUD missiles heading our way!"

COWMIKAZES

'What makes you think I want a trophy wife?'

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."

'Dropping the Pilot'-the Fall of Bismarck

A rare picture of Henry VIII's divorce lawyer.

Early attempts at standardising currency.

'Raping and pillaging, Seniors' Tour, 898AD.'

'Number three?', 'This is NOT a quiz!'

The trap

'Your Majesty, the peasants are out of bread!', 'Then let them eat low-carb stuff.'

'Syllogisms won't do you any good here, Mr Aristotle.'

Peace bomb.

'It says here that later in life they were able to patch things up and became best of friends.'

Corporate Punishment.

'Mind if I head off a little early today?'

Romulus and Remus ( and their brother Derek )

'Put the sword back in the stone right now, little girl, and we'll pretend this never happened.'