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"I hear today... that the duke of Buckingham... is dying... His title, I believe, will be extinct, which is all the loss he will be to the nobility or his country"
You can always rely on Lord Hervey
#Reliable #twitterstorians #reputation

#OnThisDay 1689 William III & Mary II were proclaimed King & Queen at the Banqueting House and presented with the Declaration of Rights by the marquess of Halifax as speaker of the House of Lords
#twitterstorians #GloriousRevolution #HistParl

@poob2016 Definitely caricatured, but satirists in the #18thcentury often depicted postilions wearing enormous boots.
@historymatt may have more insights.

"that some of our ministers can neither dance nor sing, would not be a reproach to them, if they had but somebody with them that could": #18thcentury guidance on #diplomacy suggesting all political negotiations should conclude with a dance-off?
#HistParl #tuesdaymotivations

#18thcentury diplomats were human: in 1727 Lord Waldegrave wrote from Paris to his contact back in #London hoping that his last dispatch "did not show the influence of #champagne"
#thursdayvibes #twitterstorians #HistParl

Nell Gwyn's parentage remains uncertain: her father might have been a royalist officer, Captain Gwyn, her grandfather possibly a canon of @ChCh_Oxford.
Pepys thought her a fine comic actress, but not so good in more dramatic parts
#theatre #twitterstorians #OTD 1651

There were various options open to #Parliament in settling the #Revolution: 1) invite James II back under limitations; 2) make William of Orange king; 3) make Princess Mary queen; 4) make William & Mary joint monarchs
#OTD 1689 #GloriousRevolution #twitterstorians

The death of the 7th earl of Leicester in 1743 resulted in a battle royal between his illegitimate daughter, Anne, & his niece, Elizabeth Perry, the one referred to as 'the Fairy' & the other as 'the Empress of Penshurst'. The Empress won.
#twitterstorians #HistParl

Yesterday's events in Washington a reminder of how easy it was to infiltrate the porous old palace of #Westminster👇
https://t.co/GapxjsPx8L
#HistParl #twitterstorians

#OnThisDay 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard & Dr John Jeffries crossed the #Channel from Dover to Calais in a balloon, though only after an unseemly argument resulting in Blanchard having to prove he was not weighted down by lead underwear
#twitterstorians #Travel