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The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the #Lords in the #C18th; currently working on 1715-90 #Georgian #Parliament #HistParl
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Queen Charlotte celebrated her 50th on 19 May 1794 dancing till 4 in the morning at The King was back up & on the road to Kew at half past 9 & the Queen up by 10 for breakfast

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2021-05-20

June 1732 the Prince of Wales & others attend the Ridotto al Fresco at Vauxhall. The Prince calls it a night at 2am, but most of the party-goers carry on for another 3 hours

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2021-05-07

Entertaining blog from our colleagues upstairs in on the role of pubs, drink & drunkenness in including the case of one character who pitched forward head-first into a privy & was stuck by the shoulders for several hours...
https://t.co/tnrT6aLnVE

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2021-04-26

"because ridicule is not so delicate as compassion & because the objects that make us laugh are infinitely more numerous than those that make us weep, there is a much greater latitude for comic than tragic artifices"
Joseph Addison, Spectator 44 1711

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2021-04-21

1794 there was no drawing room at court, so Queen Charlotte dressed at 1pm & then spent the time till dinner sitting for her portrait - possibly this one by Gainsborough of that year...

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2021-04-17

One of the odder depictions of John Wilkes, here presented as Hercules cleaning the Augean Stables, produced in anticipation of his expected return to in 1768 & his claim to wish to clear out

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2021-04-15

"You will be entertained with a prophecy which my Lord Chesterfield has found in the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, which clearly promises us victory over the French"
Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, 1755

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2021-04-13

A name to conjure with: Cornet Wildgoose, one of the officers wounded at the battle of Almenara in 1710

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2021-04-13