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In 2004 Chambers Harrap published a new Book of Days.Rosalind Fergusson wrote for the Chambers Harrap website that: Like its illustrious predecessor, Chambers Book of Days (2004) is a compendium of information relating to the days, months, and seasons of the year, selected and presented with the personal touch of the author. ...
Swearing on the Horns, an engraving from Chambers Book of Days, 1869. Swearing on the Horns is a farcical oath that was traditionally given to visitors at various pubs in the north London suburb of Highgate during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers; The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich; Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days by Dawn Prince-Hughes; Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days by John Gray; Book of Days by China Bayles; The diary of Stanislaus Joyce that he called his "Book of Days” Book of Days, a ...
My Utmost for His Highest is a daily Christian devotional by Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) that compiles his preaching to students and soldiers. Chambers' widow self-published the book with Alden in Oxford circa 1924 (Lukabyo, "From a Ministry for Youth to a Ministry of Youth", 2020, p. 154).
Illustration from Chambers Book of Days depicting a sow and her piglets being tried for the murder of a child. The trial allegedly took place in 1457, the mother being found guilty and the piglets acquitted.
Credit: Wellcome Collection Chambers's Book of Days, ii. 250; Remarkable Confession and Last Dying Words of Thomas Colley (containing a curious "representation of the manner in which the infatuated mob cruelly murdered Ruth Osborne", in three woodcuts) Ruth Osborne (1680–1751) was an English woman who was accused of being a witch.
Robert Chambers, summing up the invention and abolition of "Gildas the Albanian" in Chambers Book of Days (1883), observed: Such is the outline of the story of St Gildas, which, in its details, is so full of inconsistencies and absurdities, that many writers have tried to solve the difficulty by supposing that there were two or several saints ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 10:35, 14 February 2016: 766 × 595 (448 KB): MichaelMaggs: B&W for better screen visibility and consistency with other Father Christmas images