EditorialPolitical arithmetick : or A discourse concerning the value of lands, people, buildings ... As the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealan...
EditorialPolitical arithmetick, or A discourse concerning the extent and values of lands, people, buildings... As the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holla...
EditorialProcyon hernandesi, Print, Procyon is the brightest object in the constellation of Canis Minor and usually the eighth-brightest star in the night sky with a visual apparent magnitude of 0.34. It has the Bayer designation a Canis Minoris, which is Latin...
EditorialSt Joseph taunted by his neighbours; St Joseph asks the Virgin Mary about her pregnancy; an angel appears to Joseph; Joseph begs Mary's forgiveness. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. Source: Add. 47682, f.12.
EditorialGold masks, Parthian, from Nineveh, northern Iraq, 2nd century. These gold masks come from graves on the site of the former Late Assyrian citadel at Nineveh. They were discovered in 1852. The graves date to a period when Nineveh was an an important tow...
EditorialKhamba Jong. The caption in Tibet and Lhasa reads: 'This is the name of the Fort, which is surrounded by a small village. It was the first place in Tibet visited by the Mission, and where the negotiations commenced...These Jongs or Castles are scattere...
EditorialSt Joseph taunted by his neighbours; St Joseph asks the Virgin Mary about her pregnancy; an angel appears to Joseph; Joseph begs Mary's forgiveness. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. Source: Add. 47682, f.12.
Editorial'The European flats'. Little Switzerland - Gott! What neighbours I have! Political cartoon showing the leaders of Europe in dispute. Puck. 1915. Source: Puck, 24 July 1915, page 11 detail.
EditorialBOARDING HOUSE LIFE: 1. Sometimes there is a great scarcity of men (on one occasion the proportion was 7 to 1), the one being in great request until it was discovered that he was married. 2. It is decidedly uncomfortable, when there are two parsons sto...
EditorialOVINGHAM, is a civil parish and village in the Tyne Valley of south Northumberland, England. It lies on the River Tyne convert|10|mi east of Hexham with neighbours Prudhoe, Ovington, Wylam and Stocksfield. The River Tyne provided an obstacle between Ov...
EditorialJoseph and the Pharaoh, 1300-1330. In the top left Joseph is interpreting the pharaoh's dream: there would be seven years of good harvest, followed by seven years of famine. During the fat years the Egyptians store food and survive, unlike their neighb...
EditorialPurim plate, used for the exchange of food among friends and neighbours during Purim. From Germany. The plate shows Zeresh, wife of Haman, oppressor of Persian Jews, pouring the contents of a chamber pot over Haman. Pewter, 23,7 cm diameter.
EditorialGold masks, Parthian, from Nineveh, northern Iraq, 2nd century. These gold masks come from graves on the site of the former Late Assyrian citadel at Nineveh. They were discovered in 1852. The graves date to a period when Nineveh was an an important tow...
EditorialBlack obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Neo-Assyrian, 858-824 BCE Black limestone obelisk with reliefs glorfying the achieve-ments of the king and his chief minister. It lists their military campaigns of 31 years and the tribute exacted from their neighbours...