Gordon Brown's campaign to promote British values has been exposed as a sham after it was revealed he personally approved a decision to remove Britannia from the 50p coin. The patriotic symbol - based on a Roman goddess - will no longer be on any British coin for the first time in more than 300 years, as part of a redesign by the Royal Mint
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A colour illustration featuring Britannia, the female personification of the British Isles, with her helmet, trident and Union Jack shield, used as propaganda during World War One, circa 1915.
Rule Britannia!!! Britannia Rules the Waves.
The Time Machine seems to be a bit sluggish after its month long stay in the 19th century. So it’s hardly surprising that its first jump has only got us as far as 1897. It’s landed us outside the b…
Edith Amelia (née Ward), Lady Wolverton dressed as Britannia for the Devonshire House Ball 1897
“I shit on the souls of your dead, I’ll drink your blood before I’ll let it pollute mine!” Zoë Wanamaker as Queen Antedia of the Regni in Britannia, the series will premiered on January 18, 2018 on...
H.R.H. Prince Albert Edward of Wales, later King of Great Britain (1841-1910) Coat of Arms
Here are 32 new UHQ stills from episode 7×07 of Outlander ‘A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers’. Source: Far, Far Away site
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas, the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
Here is a photo tour with views from on and around the bridge of the Royal Yacht Britannia, which is berthed in Leith, Scotland.
At its peak the British Empire was the largest empire that has existed. Following the Glorious Revolution there followed a period in which modern political Britain emerged. This developing Britain had a thirst for riches, was inquisitive and believed that her ideals and virtues were worthy of being spread. Exploration led to lands being settled,
The Thursday was spent travelling on the GC line via Nottingham -Sheffield and the Woodhead route to Manchester. From my D/M-U near Brackley is Britannia 70021 Morning Star (Willesden) .25/6/64.
We love you, but some of the things you do are just weird.
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 07-Feb-15. Named: "Team Spirit". Delivered new to BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation in Jun-58 as G-AOVM. After less than 6 years in service it was leased to British Eagle in Mar-64. It was converted to 'Combi' configuration with a main-deck cargo door in Feb-68. British Eagle ceased operations in Nov-68 and the aircraft was stored at London-Heathrow. In Mar-69 it was sold to Air Spain, it remained on the UK Register until it was transferred to Spain in Dec-69 as EC-BSY. In Nov-71 it was bought by the UK Ministry of Defence, serialled XX367 and transferred to the A&AEE at Boscombe Down in May-72, and was stored there in late 1983. In Mar-84 it was sold to Katale Aero Transport in (what was then) Zaire as 9Q-CHY. Sold again 5 years later it became owned by Business Cash Flow Aviation (Zaire) in Apr-89. It was retired at Kinshasa in Jul-91 and was broken up approximately 2 years later. Updated 13-Mar-23.
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Germania[needs IPA] is the personification of the German nation or the Germans as a whole. Like many other national personification symbols, she appeared first during the Roman Era.[1] During the Medieval, she was usually portrayed as one of the lands or provinces ruled by the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, and not as the most prominent but in a subordinate position to imperial power and other provinces.[2] Around 1500, together with the birth of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Emperor Maximilian I and his humanists reinvented her as Mother of the Nation.[1][3]
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The carriage procession makes its way along the Mall to Buckingham Palace, 29 April 2011.
A new website is set to be developed for The Royal Yacht Britannia by Precedent.
What is Guy Fawkes Night? A look at the history, traditions and celebrations of November 5, following the failed events of the Gunpowder Plot.
This series features maritime or nautical posters from between the 1880s to the 1950s, many published by the famous shipping lines of the day like Canadian Pacific, Cunard White Star, and the Orient line, many illustrated by well-known graphic artists of the day. Perhaps the most well-known is Adolphe Mouron-Cassandre, whose posters from the 1930s have become collectable classics. If the name is not familiar, the posters will be. This is part 2 of a 5 - part series on maritime posters: 1914 P & O Branch Service to Australia 1914 U.S. Lines, Bremen - New York poster by Ritscher 1914c Riviera-Dienst poster by Albert Knab 1919c Auguszta Hajó poster by Kovács Dankó 1920 C.P.O.S. to Canada & United States poster by Harry Hudson Rodmell 1920 Canadian Pacific Empress Steamers poster by Cecil King 1920 White Star Line Southampton Cherbourg New-York poster by Walter Thomas 1920c Pozyczke Odrozenia Polsku poster by Aleksander Grzybowski 1920c White Star Line Canada poster by "Warren" 1920s Brazil - Plata 1920s Canadian Pacific to Canada & U.S.A. 1920s Elders & Fyffes Ltd. 1920s French LIne Cie. Gle. Transatlantique poster by Paul Colin ( 1892-1985 ) 1920s Orient Cruises - Norway 1920s Orient Line to Australia poster by Herbert Kerr Rooke ( 1872-1944 ) 1920s Orient Line to Australia 1920s P & O Tourist Class poster by Eric Michaels 1920s Union Line Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited 1920s United States Lines 1920s White Star Line poster by Montague B. Black ( 1884- ) 1920s White Star Line poster by Walter Thomas 1922 Canadian Pacific to Canada & U.S.A. poster by Odin Rosenvinge 1923 Transatlantique French Line. Hâvre, Pymouth, New-York. 1923 United States Lines "The American Way to America" poster by R. S. Pike 1924 British Empire Exhibition Canadian Pacific Steamships 1924 Canadian Pacific Mediterranean Cruise poster by George F. McElroy 1924 Largest and Fastest to the Orient Canadian Pacific Steamships 1925 Canadian Pacific Empress of Australia poster by Alfred Crocker Leighton 1925 Canadian Pacific Steamships to Europe by the Scenic St. Lawrence Route 1925 Cunard 1925 S.S. Leviathan United States Lines 1925 The St. Lawrence Route to Europe Canadian Pacific Steamships 1926 Hamburg-Amerika Linie poster by Ottomar Anton 1927 Bateaux a Vapeur du Nord poster by A. M. Cassandre 1928 Holland America Line poster by Adriaan van't Hoff 1929 Chargeurs Réunis 1929 Die kommenden Grossbauten poster by Bernd Steiner 1929 Lloyd Express poster by Lois Gaigg 1929 Statedam Holland - America Line poster by A. M. Cassandre 1930 Canadian Pacific 7 Mediterranean Cruises this Spring 1930 Canadian Pacific Cruises 1930 Canadian Pacific Indian Days Banff poster by W. Langdon Kihn 1930 Cosulich Line Trieste 1930 Cunard Winter Cruises 1930 Cunard Romance of the New World poster by Jarvis 1930 Fastest to the Orient Canadian Pacific Steamships 1930 New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd 1930 Sweden via London Swedish Lloyd poster by Harry Hudson Rodmell
In AD 43, the Romans landed an invasion force on the shores of Britain that heralded the beginnings of recorded British history and laid the cultural foundations of today’s national identity. Yet despite the crucial importance of this event, the actual location of the landings remains unclear. From Victorian antiquarians to today’s modern scholars and […]
Rule Britannia!!! Britannia Rules the Waves.
