King Charles II escaped, and now entered upon a scene of adventures the most romantic that can be imagined.
The escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester, 1651.
Category: England
Period Costumes and Fashion from England, Regency, Empire, Georgian, Directory, Victorian and Tudor dresses.
Elizabethan. Explorer of noble rank. Woman of the upper classes.
Tudor period. English Renaissance. Explorer of noble rank. Woman of the upper classes. Elizabethan fashion history.
Armaments of war from 1350 to about 1460. France. Middle ages.
War armour from 1350 to about 1460, in the period of the Hundred Years War. The development of the Bascinet helmet of the knight’s armour in the Middle Ages
Elizabethan peasant costume scene. Woman with children 1550-1620.
England Tudor. Elizabethan peasant costumes 1550-1620.
England. Lower Class costumes of the Middle Ages.
Costumes 1000 to 1300 A.D. The two men in this picture might very well be, from the manner in which they are dressed, members of Robin Hood’s band.
Cotehardie and houpelande in the 15th century. Middle Ages.
The cotehardie has adopted its main characteristics from the houppelande. The doublet or gipon. Fashion history. Burgundy 15th century.
England Tudor. The peasants’ dresses during the reign of Henry VIII.
England Tudor. Peasant clothing from 1500 to 1550, during the reign of Henry VIII. Renaissance 16th century. History of costume.
Courtly gallantry. Fashion of the Middle Ages in the 12th and 13th century.
Fashion of the Middle Ages in the 12th and 13th century. Courtly gallantry. Pointed shoes. Knights and armament. Helmets, crest.
Gibraltar. View on Catalan Bay. Located on the east side of the Rock.
Catalan Bay originated as a fishing village. Located on the east side of the Rock of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar. View from Europa Point with its back to the strait .
Gibraltar. View from Europa Point with its back to the strait at the end of a storm.