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Pack of 5 christmas cards.

Born in 1357 in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, the Dick Whittington of pantomime fame was a real historical character who became one of the greatest cloth merchants in medieval England. Here he leaves from the wonderful carved Norman doorway of Pauntley Church and sets out for London where he was appointed four times as Lord Mayor in 1397, 1398, 1407 and 1420. Martlets from the Royal Coat of Arms fly out to meet him and lead the way to London.

Based on illustrations in a mid-fourteenth century English psalter, the girls play tabor, cymbals, recorder, symphony (hurdy gurdy), fiddle and organ.

The popular game given an eleventh century twist.

The Green Man sleeps.

Stylised Green Man heads, disgorging leaves from their heads and faces, were commonly found during the Middle Ages in Christian contexts carved into stone and wood.  They probably symbolised creation and resurrection. However, the tradition of The Green man undoubtedly dates back even further to more ancient pagan folk lore and customs associated with the veneration of trees and the changing seasons of the year.

An illustration from the classic story by The Brothers Grimm.

Pack of 5 christmas cards.

Green Man dreams of quieter times and greener Christmases.

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Oxford St Frideswide

Patron Saint of the city and university of Oxford, Frideswide was the first Abbess of a double monastery in Oxford in the late seventh century. As a young woman she had escaped the unwelcome attentions of a royal suitor by escaping by boat up the River Thames to Bampton where she hid in the woods for three years. She is seen here peeping through the leaves of her arboreal hiding place. She is similarly represented on what is believed to be her thirteenth century shrine the fragments of which were discovered in 1875 and placed nearby in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Pack of 10 christmas cards.

Angels proclaim the Christmas Message

A boar stands between two mythical beasts popular in medieval art and commonly represented in the bestiaries. Above piggy is the Yale, described as being the size of a horse with an elephant's tail and the jaws of a boar. The Yale has two very long horns capable of moving independently one of the other. Below piggy is the Amphisbaena, a venemous reptile with two heads, one in the right place and the other at the end of its tail. It could tolerate cold climates, unlike other serpents, and was able to scuttle backwards and forwards with equal speed.

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An illustration from the classic story by Hans Christian Anderson.