Historical Satire Aficionados Gifts

Pomp and circumstance...WHAT?!

Gin Lane.

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

"...No it does state here quite clearly...the right to bear arms...not arm bears."

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

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Government Offices / In tray, No Exit tray.

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

Jack in the box on strike.

"We're to stop talking about 'budget cuts'. Apparently it's depressing for staff and clients..."

In my day, they didn

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

'Dropping the Pilot'-the Fall of Bismarck

Early attempts at standardising currency.

A rare picture of Henry VIII's divorce lawyer.

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

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

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

'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.'

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

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

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

Romulus and Remus ( and their brother Derek )

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Jesus has a Practice Before Raising Lazarus.

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

Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law.

"Ooops is a bit of an understatement, don't you think Cardigan?"

'Make sport of the Queen.'

'The secret of life has been unknowable ever since we assigned it to a committee.'

"Oh stop it. You know perfectly well that before every battle the enemy shouts things at us that we may find offensive."

"For the glory of God Almighty, and in the names of the munificent King and munificent Queen of Spain, I do on a day—either a Friday preceding or a Monday directly following a weekend that is earlyish in but toward the middle of October—in this year of our Lord, 1492, claim this land."