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The constellation Draco from the Catalog of Fixed Stars by al-Sufi, 18thC Arabic copy https://t.co/bBu8vQSeRN

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2021-06-15

Hyde Park: Interesting Incidents in the 1700s - was established by Henry VIII in 1536 and opened to the public in 1637 where it quickly became popular. Major improvements to the park ... https://t.co/vuNLtznk50

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2021-06-14

Hyde Park: Interesting Incidents in the 1700s - was established by Henry VIII in 1536 and opened to the public in 1637 where it quickly became popular. Major improvements to the park ... https://t.co/nytHMsyNsD

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2021-06-09

I had a lot of fun with this one, it's so deliciously colourful 😍 I put a historical twist on it since that's my niche 😏⁠

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2021-06-08

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Master of Miniatures, Pastels, and Oils - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was the youngest of eight children. She was born in 1749 in Paris to a bourgeois haberdasher. As an adolescent ... https://t.co/zWbiRiKhRU

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2021-05-25

Happy Introduced to England in the 1650s, tea sales of the British East India Company at the end of the — at 20m lbs. — were 400 times as much as at the beginning of the century.

From our BOTANY OF EMPIRE exhibit: https://t.co/368tP9v1Jz

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2021-05-22

You can find ECF on Project MUSE:
Plebeianizing the Female Soldier: Radical Liberty and /The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies/, by Fraser Easton https://t.co/6qpzzvOzqb

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2021-05-18

Women’s Accessories in the 1700s - Women’s were the fashion item that completed their look, and in the eighteenth century, there were plenty of accessories for a woman to use or wear ... https://t.co/yjrI5cXte9

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2021-05-17

Because it's Tuesday: reposting the Material Fictions articles, this one from Part 2.

Soft Materiality: Dress and Material Fiction in T.S. Surr's /A Winter in London/
by Timothy Campbell https://t.co/FoYsLm5dgy

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2021-05-05

Children of Marie Antoinette: A Brief History of Each - The children of included two girls and two boys, the girls being the oldest and youngest. All four children were born in France, ... https://t.co/Qvxw38EuEH

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2021-04-21

in 1810 Alejandro Malaspina died. The Italian marine was one of the greatest explorers of Between 1789 and 1794 he commanded a comprehensive scientific exploration of the Spanish territories in the Americas and the Pacific.

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2021-04-09

Shaping The Past https://t.co/WgY9q73m5u 'The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.' Anthony Beevor

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2021-03-24

This beautiful sheet shows the metamorphosis of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) that a century later would become an It was made by the Dutch naturalist Johannes le Francq van Berkhey. collection

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2021-03-02

Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an in 6 movements

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2021-02-23

RT : Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. https://t.co/ahVzPcQroB

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2021-02-23

Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. Click: https://t.co/cx1W5f35Hr

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2021-02-19