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Gaydon. Vicarage
The Vicarage, Gaydon. Showing the drive and gardens. 1940s
Gaydon. Village view
Looking towards Gaydon Church from the north with the County Library on the left. Group of children in the road. 1950s
Gaydon. Village view
Looking south east to the Church, past the Post Office, and the Malt Shovel Inn. Post Office owner (?) with postman, child and bicycle outside the Post Office; three children sitting on opposite side ...
Gaydon. Ye Olde Gaydon Inn
The Olde Gaydon Inn, Banbury Road, Gaydon. 1940s
Geoffrey Chaucer, Workes, 1602 - The Knight's Tale, Fol. 1, B1r.
The source for Shakespeare and Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which pilgrims each contribute a story to entertain their fellow travelers, begins with the ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of city walls on the north-west.
London's City walls and the fields beyond in Shakespeare's time.
Close beyond the city walls lay fields and orchards. The engraving shows the wooden frames on which laundresses would hang fabric to ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of London Bridge
London’s bridge in Shakespeare's time.
London Bridge was lined with houses and shops, and was a route regularly travelled by Shakespeare from his lodgings in the city to his work across the river ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district
Southwark: site of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
When Shakespeare arrived in London, aged about eighteen, he found work, possibly as a tender of horses outside a playhouse known as The Theatre ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of Southwark district
Southwark: a place for entertainment in Shakespeare's time.
The southbank of the river Thames in London was reached from the city only by boat, or across London Bridge. This area, called Southwark, ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of St Paul's and the 'city'
Shakespeare's city home.
Shakespeare lodged in Bishopsgate in the 1590s, and later on the corner of Silver Street in Cripplegate. He would have been familiar with the many printers and bookshops in ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c.1572 - detail -The Tower of London.
The Tower of London in Shakespeare's time.
The fortress on the banks of the tidal river Thames was a royal palace, and a prison stronghold. It also housed the royal armoury and a public menagerie. ...
Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium,c. 1572 - detail - the east of the city and St. Paul's cathedral
St Paul's and the city of London: known by Shakespeare.
The city of London, to which Shakespeare travelled in the 1580s, lay within an almost semi-circular wall, bordered to the south by the River ...
George Tuberville, The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting, 1611 - title page.
The care of hunting dogs in Shakespeare's time.
Turberville’s handbook was popular in Queen Elizabeth’s time and was reprinted after James I succeeded her on the English throne. The care ...
Ghent 1885
Cecil Jack Keats
Ghent 1885
Watercolour on paper
495mm x 320mm
This busy street in Ghent, Belgium, was painted by Cecil Jack Keats on his tour around Europe in 1885.
The artist produced many European ...
Giotto Chapel, Padua
The Giotto Chapel Mrs Hige (copyist) Ink on paper 740mm x 650mm The Giotto Chapel - also known as the Capella degli Scrovegni (Scrovegni Chapel) or the Arena Chapel - is in Padua, Italy. It was commissioned ...
Girls in a Watchmaking Factory
Shows female employees assembling watches.
Gloucester Cathedral
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938)
Gloucester Cathedral
Oil on canvas
394mm x 598mm
A view of Gloucester Cathedral from across a meadow. Men are loading a hay cart in the foreground while ...
Gloucester Cathedral
A sepia photograph by W.A. Mansell & Co., London
231mm x 184mm
This photograph depicts a view of the interior of Gloucester Cathedral, looking across the nave.