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St Bartholomew's Hospital for Lepers, Kingsland near #Hackney, just north of London (1841)
Because Twitter can't get enough of the Frost Fair on the river Thames near #London Bridge, in Febrauary 1814
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."
The beautiful ceiling in the Painted Hall at the Old Naval College in #Greenwich
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