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1794 Queen Charlotte was planning ahead, selecting her 'summer silks'

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2022-03-07

ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS!!!!
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Thank you to everyone for all yer support. Even though I had a few months off I am happy to be back on board with the baby & I created 2 years ago!

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2022-02-24

The feast of William the Conqueror. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, probably 11-12th century.

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2022-02-19

Wrestling, 1467.

Published in the fencing manual written by German fencing master Hans Talhoffer (1420-1490).

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2022-02-18

1750: hit by earthquake, but
"This tremendous shock did not hinder 12 or 1,300 people from going to the Masquerade... & I believe they would have gone if 1,000 houses had sunk into the earth" [Thomas Wilson]

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2022-02-03

MHN welcomes articles from published authors & historians. Here are our recent contributors' latest books.

Keep reading https://t.co/OPQ1WMprO7 and help us support their work.

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2022-01-26

Born 1749 Charles James Fox, towering politician of the 2nd half of the
"Fox’s ‘negligent grandeur’ obscured his brilliance... his oratory, ‘original, deep, subtle, vehement & expansive’... was a force to be reckoned with."

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2022-01-24

Today is the last day to register for online attendance (£5) at the New Insights into 16th & 17th century British Architecture conference! It takes place this Saturday 15th January. Please register by midnight tonight at https://t.co/BDWYh0C0fU

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2022-01-13

Through the autobiography of George King (1787-1857), explores subjects including the impact of foundling labor on the British empire, the mental & physical toll of war, and slavery & race: https://t.co/am8c5miqgz

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2022-01-09

How applied entomology saved California's lucrative orange industry in the late 1800s, with imported Australian ladybugs combatting the cottony cushion scale: https://t.co/HmesOd9OML

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2022-01-06

Edinburgh journal of natural history and the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier from 1835-1840 at - volume one (https://t.co/4GYLFBtegN) and volume two (https://t.co/8wUg7bPAtQ).

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2022-01-02

Maps and the park: How early European Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the expanding World ........ https://t.co/9uGmiXLd5Y

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2022-01-01

Twitterstorians, a question from my Grandma’s China cupboard— does anyone have any idea what this is/how old it might be?

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2021-12-24

Something for lunch. Buying fish and green groceries, Netherlands, circa 1720-30.

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2021-12-20