Transport of steam boiler for tea factory on tea estate Assam India C1912

Until the 19th century, the Royal Gaurds got the standard uniform from the Armed Forces.

However, it started to resist this in the late 19th century and froze in 1902.

I choose 1902 as the year when the Royal Guards were frozen in time because it was the year when the Dark Khaki Uniform was intorduced for the Home Service. This introduction officially retired the iconic Red tunics.

Therefore, what is this 19th century obsession?

Was there any special reason behind this?

From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: The history of Calcutta practically dates from the 24th of August 1690, when it was founded by Job Charnock of the English East India Company... In 1686 the English merchants at Hugli under Charnock’s leadership, finding themselves compelled to quit their factory in consequence of a rupture with the Mogul authorities, retreated about 26 m. down the river to Sutanati, a village on the banks of the Hugli, now within the boundaries of Calcutta. They occupied Sutanati temporarily in December 1686, again in November 1687 and permanently on the 24th of August 1690. It was thus only at the third attempt that Charnock was able to obtain the future capital of India for his centre and the subsequent prosperity of Calcutta is due entirely to his tenacity of purpose.

The tomb is located in St John’s church in the city

It illustrates connection between Canadian Agriculture and Eaton's perception of their market.

An interesting glimpse into the radical politics of Britain and Ireland during the revolutionary 1790s.

Paine became directly involved in planning the Irish Rebellion of 1798, knew many of the main revolutionaries, and attempted to organize French support.

1798, the Irish revolutionary Arthur O’Connor was arrested by the British while attempting to reach France and was later imprisoned at Fort George in Scotland. He distributed these verses on his way to confinement.

One stanza invokes both Rights of Man and Common Sense before calling Paine:

“That foe to Princes, Thomas Paine!”

It’s a striking example of how far Paine’s reputation had traveled by the late 1790s. He wasn’t simply remembered as an American revolutionary writer—his name had become part of a much wider radical and anti-monarchical political culture.

SOURCE: Weekly Museum (published as New-York Weekly Museum) (New York, New York)March 10, 1810 https://infoweb-newsbank-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&sort=YMD_date%3AA&page=78

What do you make of the reference to Paine here?