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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 townie attempts to master his thoroughbred horse, in June 4th 1803
The Tim-Nice-But-Dim character here is Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, 1777-1832, who succeeded his father in 1813 as 13th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Galen. He was said to be 'eccentric and good humoured'

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A delightful image of two young women seated on sofa with lute and music score, playing and singing. by - published in (1787)

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A minutes silence of you please to remember the 'Putney Disaster' of October 20th 1786, when a dopey local clergyman crashed his cart into the Thames, taking his wife with him for an unexpected second baptism

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Its May 29th 1803 and Napoleon is getting tossed off by a load of women. Not really an orgy but collective anger about his conscription policies taking their menfolk away from home

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Shades of Beatrix Potter here in this satire featuring Lady Hertford as Dame Rat showing off her husband and many children to a vaguely disinterested Charles James Fox, March 1782

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3/3 however, by 1819 a new Easter Monday tradition appeared, and went on to replace the Epping Hunt - namely cycling from the Eagle Inn at - which continued right up to the 1970s https://t.co/ATXbNZiEal

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Witness the perils of windy days in (1786)

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The Provost's House and Trinity College, by Thomas Malton c.1790

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Shades of Canaletto here with this Venetian-style portrait of the River Thames, with Somerset House to the left and St Paul's Cathedral dominating the background skyline, by Thomas Malton, (1796)

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And lastly, - The emotion of anger' seemingly attributed exclusively to women -
"This unruly Passion shows itself in a forcible degree in a termagant Mistress, scolding her Maid servant." - Rowlandson, (January 1800)

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