EditorialThe Seven Ages of Man: The Schoolboy, 'As You Like It,' II, vii. Date/Period: Between 1798 and 1801. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 381 mm (15 in); Width: 505 mm (19.88 in).
EditorialNegative - Geelong, Victoria, circa 1920, A schoolboy band. Most boys have harmonicas but there is a drummer on the left, a female pianist on the right and the boys in the back row hold banjos and a violin.
Editorial"He glorified an entire grove of sliver birch trees by inscribing his initials." Caricature of Oscar Wilde, as a schoolboy, carving his name on a tree. Ye soul agonies in ye life of Oscar Wilde/ illustrated by Chas. Kendrick. New York: s.n. 1882. Sourc...
EditorialIn the 1530s, debate raged about the efficacy of prayers for the dead and the very existence of purgatory. Around 1537 the reformist Bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-1555), prepared for the King a paper in opposition to purgatory. Henry VIII...
EditorialThe Seven Ages of Man: The Schoolboy, 'As You Like It,' II, vii. Date/Period: Between 1798 and 1801. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 381 mm (15 in); Width: 505 mm (19.88 in).
EditorialSumer. Mesopotamia. School tablet. List of sumerian personal names; on the reverse there are some traces of signs, probably representing the first steps of a schoolboy. The state Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...