Comics Archive
A legacy archive of the Amelia strip series — illustrated dispatches from the history of the British Empire.
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The Atherstone Ball Game
Two hours of pure, Watling Street possession-based warfare
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Royal Shrovetide Football
A town-wide aquatic siege in Ashbourne's freezing brook
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Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling
Gloucestershire's annual near-vertical pursuit of Double Gloucester cheese
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Worm Charming Championships
Willaston's strict scientific art of acoustic worm vibration
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Tar Barrels of Ottery St Mary
Ottregians carrying thirty-kilogram burning tar barrels through town
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The Haxey Hood
Lincolnshire's oldest winter ritual and the crushing weight of the Sway
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The Whittlesey Straw Bear
A seventy-pound harvest straw dance to conceptually fertilise the soil
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World Gurning Championship
Crowning the most grotesque faces through a leather horse collar
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Dunmow Flitch Trials
Essex couples cross-examined by wigged barristers for a side of bacon
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British Bulldog
The playground collision game that was banned but never forgotten
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William Dampier
The pirate who became Britain's greatest navigator
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Dampier: Part I
Mutiny on the high seas
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Dampier: Part II
Shipwreck on Ascension Island
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Dampier: Part III
The voyage of discovery
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Dampier: Part IV
Mapping the unknown
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HMS Black Joke
The slave ship turned anti-slavery patrol vessel
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HMS Daphne
Hunting slavers off the coast of Africa
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Matthew Flinders
The man who mapped Australia
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The Sati Ban
Ending the practice of widow-burning in India
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The Scilly Isles
Britain's naval disaster of 1707
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Tower Bridge
Engineering the Victorian age
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The Crusades
Richard the Lionheart and the Holy Land
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The Aswan Dam
Engineering on the Nile
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Amelia & Evelyn
A tale of two women
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The First Master
Life aboard a Royal Navy warship
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General Charles Napier
Conquest of Sindh
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The Compensation
40% of the national budget to free 800,000 people
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The Interceptors
The West Africa Squadron's 60-year campaign
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The Fever Maps
Ronald Ross and the discovery of malaria transmission
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The Meridian
How Britain gave the world its time
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The Partition
36 days that displaced 14 million people
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The Assyrian Genocide
1915 Urmia massacres and the British Blue Book