14th November 1881 We are at war!

[Gluteus Maximus]

That's a great picture there, very inspiring. Now knock it off, I have enough on my plate already!

Is Mr. Brown is from Crusader's "furriner" cowboy pack?

Yes, with a little conversion done to the beard and hair to make him look more like Billy Connelly

Glad you steered clear of painting a crimson goatee, though ::

Just mentioning Billy Connolly reminds me of his cameo appearance as "Hawkeye MacGillicuddy" in the film Bullshot. That scene still makes me laugh

[Malamute]

Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?

Rule Brittania,
Soaps.

Good grief, you're right      

Well spotted Vanvlak
he seems to crop up in all the right places!
I think this image is shortly before the incident with the Werewolf in Scotland :wink:

[Gluteus Maximus]

Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?

Rule Brittania,
Soaps.

Ha, yes! If Mr Smith is there, it must be serious...

Nick, you're really going to _have_ to do a Martha [or Donna?] to accompany him........

[Lowtardog]

who is the Scottish bloke with the guns?  

John Brown, Comforter and Assassin Extraordinaire to Her Majesty. ::

But he hasn`t got his bannana shoes on

[Vanvlak]

Is that a certain time traveling physician observing events in the right foreground?

Rule Brittania,
Soaps.

Good grief, you're right      

Well spotted Vanvlak
he seems to crop up in all the right places!
I think this image is shortly before the incident with the Werewolf in Scotland :wink:

Nope - well spotted Soapy.  

[Hammers]

I thought I was failry up to date on British pop culture but this one whizzes right over my head.

OK, so exactly who is John Brown, Comforter and Assassin Extraordinaire to Her Majesty except what you learn from his title?

[Plynkes]

The real John Brown was a ghillie who became Queen Victoria's personal servant after the Death of Prince Albert. The two struck up quite a close relationship, and he helped her somewhat to overcome the grief she was stricken with.

There were rumours of them ...  well, you can imagine.

All this is depicted in the film "Mrs Brown" with Judi Dench and Billy Connolly. The stuff about him being an assassin is a bit of VSF gamer fun.

[Hammers]

Thanks!

[TadPortly]

Errm, we Westphalians have been prussians since 1815, in parts since 1614 (when Prussia still was called Brandenburg). In the better parts, of course

Throwing us together with bavarians is like calling a scotsman a Cockney.

But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner"  :wink:

[Poliorketes]

But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner"  :wink:

In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...

[Lowtardog]

But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner"  :wink:

In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...

Ah but that was a view of the Aristocracy and the upper classes and impressed on the working classes by the press and education

[twrchtrwyth]

But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner"  :wink:

In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...

Longer for the English maybe 1066, 1415 for the Welsh. It's the Scots who kept their kings longest.

That guy with the Prussian? blue coat in the background, could that be a bomb in the bag?

Very impressive!

[janner]

But that was the Victorian British view - there was the English and "Jonny Foreigner"  :wink:

In an era where the last souveraign with british blood died 200 years ago...

Everyone in UK is descended from someone who came from elsewhere originally - it's just a question of time.

Being of ‘British blood’ thankfully means being born of British parents (a legal definition) and avoids discredited theories on eugenics.


 

[xeoran]

Most Brits come from the Basque region of Spain. Considering the number of non-Brits in living history for my family I take the view that a man born in Hackney is from Hackney. :wink:

Did the Scots keep their Kings? The Kings were Scots weren't they? Whilst the majority of their subjects were Picts. And lets not even think about Lowland/Highland or the men on the Marches.

[Plynkes]

Actually, most Brits have always been here, they've just changed their identity to fit in with each new lot of invaders.

They dug up some preserved prehistoric chap in Devon or somewhere a while back, DNA-tested him, and then DNA tested all the locals near where he was found. Some of said locals were found to be relations of his!

So we're most of us not Normans,  Anglo-Saxons, Romans or even Celts. We're all from some nameless prehistoric tribe!