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Scarcely a day goes by when the Duke of York doesn't curse 'Bloody news, bloody news!' Here he is putting the Prime Minister William Pitt to the sword as Charles James Fox looks on encouragingly, #London February 1st 1801
#WellingtonWednesday - By Jove! He was a great general but a godawful shot, the Duke of Wellington blasts the nose clean off one of his friends when out on a hunting expedition in Ipswich on February 5th 1823
Henry Dundas, Lord Chancellor and a Scotsman, is being shown due respect by Prime Minister William Pitt, who is bag-piping him into the Treasury, in #London January 30th 1793
Its January 29th 1821 and the Duke of #Wellington faces one of his most desperate foes to date, a three-headed pig from Hampshire. It will be another close run thing...
Its 29th January 1820 and the Regent who has this day become King George IV, shows all the empathy of a benevolent monarch, when he finds unemployed and starving gardeners, idle owing to the awful weather, arriving at Carlton House: "Let them starve, they are Radicals."
Rowlandson's Pretty Barmaid has the men in thrall, in #London January 22nd 1795
'Les Anglaises pour rire' was a play mocking English women as seen by the French as tourists in #Paris, featuring a pair of French actors in drag. Le Théatre des Variétés scored a great hit, especially among English visitors in January 1815
A Flat between Two Sharps
A musical reference is used to describe an encounter between a country yokel and a couple of #London lawyers, on January 17th 1788
🎼🎼 Come On Eveline 🎼🎼
A French satire from January 1823 featuring a brave young lady preventing herself from being de-flowered by one of Dexy's Midnight Runners
The most notable thing about Princess Charlotte's birth on January 7th 1796, was the distinct absence of any wise men - so she had to make do with her dad The Prince Of Wales instead