Historical Satire Fans Gifts

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

'It must be acupuncture! My toothache is gone.'

Victor Hugo looking at the stars

Miss Flite Introduces The Wards in Chancery to Mr. Krook

The One True Reason For The Death Of Jesse James.

Clean for ye Queen

'Admit it, there's another woman, isn't there?'

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

The wooden clothes horse of Troy.

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

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

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

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

A rare picture of Henry VIII's divorce lawyer.

Early attempts at standardising currency.

'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!'

'It always great to get away from it all.'

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

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

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

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.'

'Make sport of the Queen.'

Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law.

Romulus and Remus ( and their brother Derek )

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

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

Servant Painting Targets Around Arrows Shot by a King

'In future a reg number will suffice, ok.'

"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."