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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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A lovely sunset view of the ships at sea off the South Foreland near Dover in May 1785

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Special Relationship?
"The Brilliant Achievement of H.M.S Shannon... in boarding and capturing the United States Frigate Chesapeake off Boston, on 1st June 1813 in just fifteen minutes"

Just hope doesn't get to hear about it

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"The Graces in a High Wind. -a Scene taken from Nature, in Kensington Gardens" in which these ladies' modesty is compromised during their daily promenade, may 1810

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Action from the Duke of York's bout with Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, featuring their ring-side seconds the Prince of Wales and King George III, to settle an argument arising back in May 1789

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More arse-related laughs via a pun on Goldsmith's play 'She Stoops to Conquer (1773) as Lady Hertford and the Prince Regent experience an embarrassing double blow-out whilst trying to retrieve her fallen fan. Luckily Lord Yarmouth is there to save the day, March 11th 1812

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From Yarmouth to Wales
A satire that the Prince Regent tried to suppress after news that his sprained ankle from 'dancing' at Oatlands in autumn 1811 was in fact the result of a spat with Lord Yarmouth, who reportedly booted him right up the arse for trying it on with his missus.

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Let's take a fond look at the Queen we could have had:
Princess Charlotte begins to assert herself against her father the Prince Regent's control, demonstrating the virtue of combining German flesh with English spirit, April 28th 1816

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A portrait of English watercolour painter Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) by George Dance (1798). A close friend of J.M. W Turner, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1794 but his stellar career was extinguished by consumption - aged just 27 - He's buried in St Paul's

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Disappointed with footfall to his Shakespeare Gallery, Alderman Boydell was thought to have vandalised some of his own exhibits to excite public sympathy and publicity. Gillray compared him to the notorious Monster, April 26th 1791

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Radical hero and modern-day Sir Francis Burdett takes up his sword to attack the monster of Government corruption guarding the Treasury, declaring "I will Stand up for the Rights of the People Or Perish in the Attempt" c.1809

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