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Historian of celebrity during the Regency era, Wanstead House & the scandalous life of William Long-Wellesley. Roofer, Father, Londonist & Eejit #uniwestminster
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The latest thing in evening visiting dresses, a must-have item in August 1810

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The home of famous Restoration-era Highwayman Claude Duval, in Hornsey just north of August 1841. By the eighteenth-century this property's name had become bastardised to 'Devil's House'

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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

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Lock up your daughters, here is the product of power and beauty personified by this (confusingly effete) sherry-drinking specimen of masculine attractiveness, c.1780

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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 July 30th 1822

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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.'

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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 to collect his colossal £10,000 annual allowance

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As I'm feeling generous tonight you can have this lovely Thomas Landseer-designed ticket to the Corporation of official celebration of the Great Reform Bill passing into law, to be held in the Guildhall on 11th July 1832

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Despite successfully out-doing Frankenstein whilst being fitted out at Mr Tightfit's 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

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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, 1852

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