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April 16, 2009 47289
A lithograph depicting Indigenous Australians and the arrival of Cook and his crew, titled "Captain Cook's Landing at Botany, AD 1770".CREDIT:NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
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April 16, 2009 109114
Jessie Knight becomes Great Britains first professional female tattoo artist
Before Jessie Knight became Great Britain’s first professional female tattoo artist she worked for her...
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April 16, 2009 58805
The tattooed Omai comes to England
On Captain Cook’s second voyage to the pacific (sailing from Plymouth, England, July the 13th 1772).
The...
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April 15, 2009 44601
Tattooed mummies
Early tattooed finds. In 1972 eight mummies (dated A.D. 1475) were found in Qllakitsoq, Greenland – and five of the six adult women and two children had blue...
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April 15, 2009 139912
Tattooing on BBC TV
Tattooing first appeared on the BBC in the 1930s, marking an important moment for the art form on British television. The very first tattoo artist to be featured...
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April 15, 2009 82867
Tattooing banished
The banning of tattooing marks.
In A.D.325 Emperor Constantine the Great, banned facial tattoos among Christian’s...
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April 15, 2009 64100
Charles Darwin writes of tattooing
Famed English naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) who not only upset religious groups and scholars throughout the civilized world with...
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April 15, 2009 57871
William Dampier brings back to England a tattooed man
After the Church banned the tattoo in 787AD – there was not much in evidence regarding tattooing in Britain in the forthcoming...
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April 09, 2009 132041
Janet Rusty Skuse – A true great of British tattooing history
Before she became the wife of British tattoo artist Bill Skuse. Rusty was plain old Janet (Rusty) Fields Having her...
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April 02, 2009 92896
Krystyne The Kolorful
Krystyne the Kolorful who for many years appeared in the Guinness book of records as the world's most tattooed woman. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,...
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