The Dickens

Charles Dickens

So Dickens take a, Dickens take a bow. And heaven knows he's miserable now. 

Aaaaall the faces of February 2021

Video compilation on my Vimeo channel. 

It's been a blast everyone! :-D

He's bad

Emperor Nero

... so baddie, at badness he's the daddy.

A magical moment has occurred. I give you my 29th face for the 29 Faces challenge. This is the first time ever in all the years that I have taken part that I have managed 29 faces in 28 days. I'm so happy! 😁

Not just a hop, but non-stop

Wilbur and Orville Wright

Their engine's small, but powerful. Propelled to a great height!

Alexaaaaander!

Al the Great

Alexander is his name, Macedonia's most famous commander. History calls 'The Great' but he prefers 'The Greatest'.

Henry VII

Henry VII

He's the original Tu-tu-tu-tudor. Father of that dynasty. The man who closes the War of the Roses. That's right, that's right, that's he.

God Compare

A Shouty Man

To stay alive and even thrive, it's God Compare!

Giovanni Borgia

Giovanni Borgia

From the Italian barmy army, the Borgia Family.

Robert the Bruce

 

Robert the Bruce

Don't mention the spider.

Someone open a window

Dr Nicholas Culpeper

Dr Nicholas Culpeper. A mustachio to die for, which may well happen if you go to his health spa. A Stuart era doctor who believed that tobacco was the cure for all ailments.

James VI and I

James VI / I

James the 1st of England. Guy Fawkes tried to blow him up and turn him into Stuart stew.

Owain Glyndwr

 

Owain Glyndwr

Owain Glyndwr, father of the fight for Welsh power.

He's Henry VIII

Henry VIII

... he had six sorry wives, some might say he ruined their lives.

Elagabalus

Emperor Elagabalus

The teenage emperor who may possible have been the worst party host in history.

He's William the Conqueror

William I

... his enemies stood no chance. They call him the first English King although he came from France.

He's got the blue blooded blues

 

Robert III of Scotland

King Robert III, some say he was a fool. Once fell of his horse and hurt himself, quite badly, how uncool. Ended up with a limp, and limp was what they called his rule.

My favourite engineer

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

He was a tunnel building, bridge creating, hard grafting, ship crafting polymath... Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Shakespeare, William

Bill

May seem kinda scary, he's a walking dictionary. Sturdy with the wordy, Shakespeare.

Twang

Tudor Archer Thomas Curtis of Suffolk

On tonight's episode of 'People Who Have No Business Being This Handsome'... Laurence Rickard as Tudor archer Thomas Curtis whose death may have been arrow related.

No more 'stand and deliver'

Dick Turpin

... you'll remember this I hope. It's no fun hanging with highway men when you're... hanging from a rope.'

Dick Turpin ya'll.

Stupid deaths...

Death

Stupid deaths, they're funny 'cause they're true.

The King of Bling

Charles II

His name is... his name is... HIS NAME IS! Charles the 2nd!

Can you imagine it?

 

Sweet King Richard III

... he's the last Plantagenet.

I dare you not to fall a little bit in love with Jim Howick's Richard the 3rd.

Eehrmm?

Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop having pretty much the same reaction as I did when trying to understand the reason for the first world war.

'So... where is Bosnia again?'

Don't cross us Aztecs we advise ya...

 

...or you'll end up as fertilizer.

Vercingetorix

 

Vercingetorix

Leader of the Gaulish hordes. So deadly he could wear pigtails and still look hard.

William Wallace, Scottish Rebel...

William Wallace

 Yyyyeeeeaaaaah! William Wallace, Scottish rebel... possibly six foot seven!

Mad as a... Roman emperor

Caligula

Crazy Cal... What can I say about Caligula? He's bad, he's bad, a shameless, rotten cad. 

 

He's George the 4th

 

... Which means he was just standing in, acting King because his dad, George the 3rd had gone barking mad. He loved more girls than he ate pies, but he couldn't stand his wife. 

Ok, I love this song so much! I really wan to to perform it on stage one day.

Do the Pachacuti

Pachacuti

It's 29 Faces time and I'm so excited. This time I have a very special theme... Horrible Histories. I have recently been watching the series and I'm utterly in love with it. The acting is hilarious and the costumes are just fantastic. And the songs...Don't get me started. I'm learning them all of by heart. So I just had to start with Pachacuti, the Incan lord whom other tribes dreaded. When it came to claiming nearby land, he was the one to risk it, but it's how he treated dead enemies that really took the biscuit. I have also added the link to his song... be warned... it will get stuck in your head. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51aHb_U8Zr0

A Thorne in my side

 

Thomas Thorne

I have now watched BBC's Ghosts. And in the words of OK Go 'It's not passing fascination now,

It's obsession'. 

Here's a painting of dead, romantic poet Thomas Thorne. I just love the way he mooches around in a perpetual state of melancholic pining, looking like he's moments away from a dramatic break-down.