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The latest thing in evening visiting dresses, a must-have item in #London, August 1810
The home of famous Restoration-era Highwayman Claude Duval, in Hornsey just north of #London, August 1841. By the eighteenth-century this property's name had become bastardised to 'Devil's House'
The vermin catcher of Great Britain laying his usual bait of patronage and favour to a corrupt and greedy political ruling class, April 1754
Wonder if we could get him back, as the infestation seems worse than ever these days
Lock up your daughters, here is the product of power and beauty personified by this (confusingly effete) sherry-drinking specimen of masculine attractiveness, #London c.1780
A lovely portrait of the actress Henrietta Constance Smithson; in character as Miss Dorrillon, in Inchbald's 'Wives as they were and Maids as they are'; published as an illustration to Terry's 'Theatrical Gallery' in #London July 30th 1822
Henry Munro, a Presbyterian draper from Lisburn courageously led 7000 ill-equipped Irishmen against the British Army at Ballynahinch (June 1798) - subsequently hanged on his own doorstep in sight of his wife - uttering these final words 'Tell my country I deserved better of it.'
1819 was truly the year of the bicycle, initially a temporary craze that didn't catch on. Here is a delicious satire of the Duke of York saving on travelling expense by cycling from Oatlands to #Windsor to collect his colossal £10,000 annual allowance
As I'm feeling generous tonight you can have this lovely Thomas Landseer-designed ticket to the Corporation of #London's official celebration of the Great Reform Bill passing into law, to be held in the Guildhall on 11th July 1832
Despite successfully out-doing Frankenstein whilst being fitted out at Mr Tightfit's #London salon, Duke of St Albans fears that his man-spreading tendency can only undermine his hopes of winning RuPaul's Drag Race for the summer of 1827
You’ll find me in the Green Gate Tavern, on the City Road, playing a few games of billiards with a pint of Whitbread in my hand, #London 1852