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Odd this day

18 January 1893

9h ago

William Price portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales — depicts a man in green clothes, trimmed with red, wearing a fox on his head, with a huge beard, and holding a stiff piece of rope, the end of which is burning

9h ago

Odd this day

15 January 1909

3d ago

A large man in a suit looks at camera as he sits astride a water buffalo — which does not appear to be enjoying the experience

3d ago

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13 January 1928

5d ago

Rev Hubert Cowley, of St Michael’s Stinsford, carried Hardy’s heart casket to its grave. b/w photo shows man in clerical vestments carrying a wooden box, surrounded by a crowd of mourners

5d ago

Odd this day

12 January 1763

6d ago

The young Boswell, painted by George Willison — a man sits cross-legged and looks at us, wearing fur-trimmed robe and red/pink braided waistcoat. In a tree behind, two owls look on

6d ago

Odd this day

Various 8th Januaries

Jan 8

Book extract: Is that all? That is all. Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death. — Farewell. THE END. PRINTING OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER.

Jan 8

Odd this day

31 December 1552

Dec 31, 2024

Simon Forman by R. Cooper stipple engraving, early 19th century, based on a contemporary portrait: a bearded man in Elizabethan dress looks ‘at camera’

Dec 31, 2024

Odd this day

26 December 1945

Dec 26, 2024

Odd this day

Dec 26, 2024

Odd this day

25 December 1942

Dec 25, 2024

Front of Jesus College, Cambridge

Dec 25, 2024

Odd this day

23 December 1939

Dec 23, 2024

A page from a catalogue of MI9 devices, headed ‘Post capture’, with illustrations of ‘miscellaneous carriers’ of maps, including playing cards, cigars, handkerchiefs, and apparently innocent books

Dec 23, 2024

Christopher’s Christmas Cracker 2024

Every year, historian and travel writer John Julius Norwich published a Christmas Cracker — a collection of anecdotes, trivia and…

Dec 19, 2024

An inexplicable photo os Christopher Lee and Su Pollard, dressed in party hats and draped in tinsel, pulling a cracker. Both seem quite happy

Dec 19, 2024

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