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No one knows. A lady secretly takes the love letter sent to her.

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2021-10-27

"Make way for the Minister, Take care of your pockets"
Pitt the Younger heading to the House of Commons - budget announcement style

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2021-10-27

Battle of Anghiari, fought in 1440, in the course of the Wars in Lombardy (1423-1454), between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan. The Peace of Lodi, concluded in 1454, ended the wars and brought forty years of stability.

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2021-10-17

Roman fresco with banquet scene, Pompeii, circa 1st century AD.

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2021-10-14

The vegetable seller, Netherlands, 16th century.

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2021-10-14

Dear friends, I have an extra copy of Patricia Fortini-Brown’s ‘The Venetian Bride’. Do you know of anyone - maybe student, ECR, or in a precarious contract? - who might want it and can’t afford it? I’ll happily post it to them. Thank you.

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2021-10-12

Prior to her infamous trial for bigamy, Elizabeth Chudleigh was most notorious for her appearance at the Grand Jubilee Ball (in the Venetian manner) at Ranelagh, where she appeared wearing not very much as Iphigenia. The contemporary press had a field day.

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2021-10-07

Born 1758 Horace (Horatio) Nelson, 5th son (3rd surviving) of Edmund & Catherine Nelson, who went on to become a rather famous Admiral & member of the House of Lords as Viscount Nelson

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2021-09-30

In 1715 the earl of Jersey was sent to the Tower for Jacobite plotting. He was set free by January 1716 & celebrated by not going to bed for a month & spending the last week of that living on brandy alone

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2021-09-28

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian field marshal in Bautzen where his field forces clashed with those of Napoleon, 1813.

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2021-09-27

1774 Lord North tells George III it's pointless resisting John Wilkes' election as an MP in spite of Wilkes being 'ashamed of the thinness of the meeting' summoned to select him, which he attributes to 'the badness of the

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2021-09-26

1794 the royal family's at Weymouth was drawing towards an end. The queen & others entertained themselves with a the prize being a watch which was won by Princess Amelia. Princess Augusta swam in the sea for the 15th time.

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2021-09-24

1780 British Major John André was captured by American forces after crossing enemy lines. He was executed just over a week later on 2 October.

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2021-09-23

Time for an early modern artichoke fight reenactment? (from Schembart books)

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2021-09-21

New follows & the well entrenched: now is the time 2 treat ur self (or some1 else) 2 my Sassy Academia art. Relieves stress. Passive aggressively tell every1 ur over their bs. And gimme a RT-share the Sass.
https://t.co/Ux3Lt1eCRh

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2021-09-14

George III & Queen Charlotte celebrated their 33rd wedding in 1794 at - marking the occasion by donning the king's Hare Hunting Uniform. After dinner they 'sat quiet' till 8pm & then had a ball which lasted till 2 in the morning.
1761

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2021-09-08

In the course of the consumption of in England increased by an astonishing 2,500%

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2021-08-28

The Lion of the North - Gustavus Adolphus (1594 – 1632), King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, was regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in modern history, with the use of an early form of combined arms.

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2021-08-28

Weimar's Courtyard of the Muses by Theobald von Oer, 1860.

A tribute to The Enlightenment and the Weimar Classicism depicting German poets Schiller, Wieland, Herder, and Goethe.

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2021-08-26