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Creator of #frockingfabulous. I write bestselling WW2 sagas as Ellie Curzon and history books as me! Always gandering. Tips👉 ko-fi.com/catherinecurzon
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Muff? What muff? This dandy is giving it his all!

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When pirates Mary Read & Anne Bonny sacked the ship she was travelling on, Dorothy Thomas recalled they “wore men's jackets, and trousers, and handkerchiefs tied about their heads: [each] had a machete and pistol in their hands and cursed and swore at the men to murder [me]”!

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When Frederick William I of Prussia was feeling down, he had a legion of strapping soldiers known as the Potsdam Giants march through his bedroom to cheer him up! He was born in 1688.

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“This old hat? I just threw this on.” The ladies of Le Bon Genre model their most understated headgear. via the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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I think they need a bigger garden. Fun and games for the ladies of Le Bon Genre. via Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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I love this chipper gal, she looks as though she’s got plenty to say! A Kitchen Scene by Paul Sandby. via the Royal Collection Trust.

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Just two gals earning an honest crust! The Pretty Milleners, 1781. via the British Museum.

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Grinling Gibbons died 1721. Walpole wrote, "There is no instance of a man before who gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.”

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Princess Augusta of Great Britain was born in 1737. Horace Walpole wrote that she "was lively, and much inclined to meddle in the private politics of the Court.

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The first women's match took place in 1745, when the villages of Bramley and Hambledon met. Hambledon claimed the victory and The Mercury reported that, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game."

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