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Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail including British Isles
Shakespeare’s England, on the edge of a world to be explored.
Maps of the known world were becoming more widely available to Shakespeare's contemporaries. Maps often use Latin, then an international ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, Florida and the east coast.
Virginia became England’s colony in Shakespeare’s time.
Virginia, named for England’s virgin queen, Elizabeth, was established in 1584 by Walter Raleigh, and Jamestown was settled ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, The Pacific Ocean and Solomon Islands, showing a galleon and a sea creature, probably a whale.
Ships from Shakespeare’s England explored the world.
The sailing vessels that traded up the river Thames to London and set off from the English Channel, or from West country ports, were familiar ...
Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619, Map of the Americas - detail, The southern Carribean including Trinidad, also a galleon.
Ships from Shakespeare’s London sailed to the Caribbean.
As English settlements were established in the Americas pamphlets describing their experiences were published in London. The slave trade ...
John Clifford Lock And Leslie Harry Lock With Their Mother
John Clifford Lock and Leslies Harry Lock sitting in a car with their mother Florence Annie Lock, c. 1926-1927.
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597]
London Bridge, looking upstream in Shakespeare's time.
London's medieval bridge was thronged with passers-by entering the city. At the south end (left on this contemporary engraving) lay the gate above ...
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - detail of bridge and houses above
A coach enters Shakespeare's London.
The centre of London Bridge had one short section where the houses did not loom five or six storeys high above the roadway. Norden shows a coach and a stream of ...
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - detail of capsized rowing boat
A ‘taxi-boat’ in difficulties on the river Thames in Shakespeare's time.
Small rowing boats were the most common method of crossing the river Thames. These ferries acted as taxis and would ...
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - detail, a 'taxi' boat passes freight-carrying-boats at anchor
River transport in Shakespeare's London.
In London the main means of crossing the river, apart from the only bridge, was by small rowing boat ferries, which acted as ‘taxi-boats’. These ...
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - lower left corner, dedicating the engraving to The Lord Mayor.
Dedication of the view of London bridge as Shakespeare knew it.
Norden dedicated his engraving to the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Richard Saltonshall, as this corner of the engraving shows.
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John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - lower right corner of the engraving, panel descibing the bridge.
London's bridge described in Shakespeare's time.
John Norden's engraving of London Bridge carries a description. Here we learn that along its length lay 102 homes, built alongside and over the 30 foot ...
John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597] - Southern bank details including a crane, and heads on spikes above the gateway.
The south end of London Bridge, close to Shakespeare’s Globe.
The southern end of London Bridge led directly into the parish of St. Mary Overy. This was a busy area for industry as is indicated ...
Junction Of The Two Roads At Hands Cross
James and George Temple Junction Of The Two Roads At Hands Cross Watercolour on paper 940mm x 1250mm The brothers James Temple (1843 – 1921) and George Temple (1847 – 1910) worked together as artists ...
Kenilworth Castle
A black and white postcard of the ruins at Kenilworth Castle. There is a wooden bridge in the foreground. It is part of the Peacock Brand Series published by the Pictorial Stationary Company Ltd. 87mm ...
Kenilworth Railway Station
Opening Of The Leamington And Warwick Railway, Kenilworth Station 1844 Ink on paper 100mm x 160mm The Leamington and Warwick Railway, which opened on 14 December 1844, was the first railway line to link ...
Kenilworth. Accident at Chesford Bridge
Group of people viewing damage to a cottage at Chesford Bridge, Kenilworth, following a motor bus accident on August 3rd 1908.
Kenilworth. Bridge and Cottages
Old timbered cottages and bridge, Bridge Street, Kenilworth. 1950s
Kenilworth. Caesar's Tower, Castle
Caesar's Tower at Kenilworth Castle from the south east, showing a rustic bridge centre, Kenilworth. 1938-40