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In 1840s goldsmith & major Victorian antiquary Joseph Mayer joined the campaign to establish a public museum in Liverpool - @World_Museum - One reason was to keep unoccupied artisans out of pubs. He opened the Egyptian Museum at 8 Colquitt St in 1852 ...but it's now a @BrewDog
At the Theatre Royal, the famous ghost
is The Man in Grey.
In tricorne hat and cloak, he walks
along the 4th row of the Upper Circle
and disappears through the wall.
In the 1840s, a hidden cavity was
found there - and a skeleton with a dagger
in its chest.
#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday Vinegar valentines were a type of insulting cards. They are decorated with a caricature, and featured below an insulting poem. Ostensibly given on Valentine's Day.They enjoyed popularity from the 1840s to the 1940s.
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Selenophile ...
🎨 Nordkapp "The North Cape by Moonlight" 1840s or 1850s.
Peder Balke (1804–1887) #Norwegian painter. Landscape of Norway in a romantic and dramatic manner.
@HistoryofColour 🖼@TheVisualArt #VisualArt #HistoryofPainting
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🎨 Nordkapp "The North Cape by Moonlight" 1840s or 1850s.
👨🎨 Peder Balke (Nov 4, 1804, Helgøya – Feb 5, 1887, Christiania) was a Norwegian painter. He is known for portraying the landscape of Norway in a romantic and dramatic manner.
Beauty of #Art
#HistoryofPainting
In 1840s goldsmith & major Victorian antiquary Joseph Mayer joined the campaign to establish a public museum in Liverpool. One reason was to keep unoccupied artisans out of pubs. He opened his own Egyptian Museum at 8 Colquitt St in 1852 ..but it's now a PUB!
In the late 1830s and 1840s there were a number of sightings of Spring-Heeled Jack in #Brentford #Isleworth & #Hounslow #folklorethursday
Came across a particularly eerie photo of anatomist Dr Robert Knox, probably in Edinburgh early 1840s before he fled to London
#CakeDecorating is rumored to have started at a French bakery in the 1840s 🍰
#StrangeDaysIndeed 111/365
#Cake #illustration #lettering
1840s: Prince Albert brought a Christmas tree to Windsor Castle, starting the UK tradition #VictorianChristmas (Décoration du sapin de Noël)
Anglesey likely to be first county in Wales to complete its unified 1840s tithe map #cartography #tech #digitisation https://t.co/RHO23DZ5ac
One fun bonus of doing a game set in the 1840s: I get to draw people with amazingly large hats.
Here's some 1840s #fashion ahead of the exciting @NorwichFashJam show here tonight from 7 https://t.co/NwQ4Kfa97k