Matthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child mb-code GNHL483 a 19th-century copy from Speed's

a 19th-century copy from Speed's Map of England

Plate 23 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

So he sat himself down on a bench in Russell Square and started to browse

Alfred became King of Wessex during a time of constant Viking attack

Sir Charles Blagden was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1772

Matthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child mb-code GNHL483 a 19th-century copy from Speed'sMatthew Paris at the feet of the Virgin and Child, 13th century, (1892). From Paris' own drawing. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume I, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1892.