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It's St Cecilia’s day today, the patroness of musicians. It was also on 22 November when #Handel first performed his his famous 'Ode for St Cecilia's Day', at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields. This work, Mrs Billington as St Cecilia, is from our #GeraldCokeHandelCollection
The Lost Words is in @Waterstones's Book of the Year shortlist. This book is the focus of our upcoming exhibition https://t.co/0iBOQrx31x
Are you having a relaxing #Sunday like this 'Lady and gentleman at music' by Thomas Rowlandson? #GeraldCokeHandelCollection
#TokenThursday This small coloured enamel token, with two holes pierced, has a putti hovering over a ribbon showing the name 'Ann Higs'.
Basic Instincts explores Georgian attitudes to female respectability through radical paintings of Joseph #Highmore #internationdayofthegirl
"Even the middle classes were at risk of assault & social exclusion in Georgian Britain" @spectator on our new show https://t.co/SkWWu9eDUO
Did you know you we have a digital archive for past exhibitions? You can download resources & see media and images https://t.co/tKSTqnv4bE
We're taking part in #LondonHistoryDay on 31 May. Be transported to the ball at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in 1792 https://t.co/oPrDhwO8jr
#onthisday in 1750 Handel's Messiah was first performed in the Foundling Hospital Chapel as a benefit concert, then on a yearly tradition
#onthisday in 1697 William Hogarth was born. Our Collection includes his painting of Thomas Coram & design for the Foundling Hospital emblem