The Gunpowder Plotters Finish:Float frame or wait with luggage

or wait with luggage

18th February 1945 East London 'back yard smallholders' at the street market in Bethnal Green

unable to find a purchaser for his debt-laden estate at Ealing

A folio from Boethius

This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth-century club of literary women in London

The Gunpowder Plotters Finish:Float frame or wait with luggageThe Gunpowder Plotters, early 17th century, (1910). The conspirators, from a picture painted in 1606: Robert Winter, Christopher Wright, John Wright, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, and Thomas Winter. The hats, the falling bands, and the tightly fitting doublets are distinctive features of the ordinary persons, if we omit the unkempt hair. Illustration from British Costume during 19 Centuries by Mrs Charles H Ashdown, (London, 1910).