History and the park: Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain.........https://t.co/cYOcTm3uQj

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The home of famous Restoration-era Highwayman Claude Duval, in Hornsey just north of August 1841. By the eighteenth-century this property's name had become bastardised to 'Devil's House'

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Join Clare Hickman, Claire Preston and Carole Rawcliffe as they explore the physic, botanical and medicinal garden from the medieval to the eighteenth century in their British Art Talks podcast episode: https://t.co/zBG2nAL0l4

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Wigs: Their Wearers and Eighteenth-Century Anecdotes - In the eighteenth century, those who wore almost always powdered them. By the 1780s, young men were moving away from wigs and were powdering their ... https://t.co/o7UhB4RdrO

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‘This is an eminently readable compact biography of a particularly colourful late eighteenth-century personality. Each of the various phases of Hester Salusbury/Thrale/Piozzi’s life is presented in detail' Use code EISTEDDFOD20 and get 20% off https://t.co/SqGKOEGabL

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Wigs: Their Wearers and Eighteenth-Century Anecdotes - In the eighteenth century, those who wore almost always powdered them. By the 1780s, young men were moving away from wigs and were powdering their ... https://t.co/PoHdo2SUPl

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🐯 Happy This beautifully-wrought silver-gilt tiger-headed mace was made in late eighteenth-century India.

Not intended as a weapon, this mace was employed purely for processional use, carried by harbingers to herald the approach of an important official.

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Today is his eighteenth birthday. I think I have to give him a coming-of-age gift, so for the last seven hours of today, I sat in front of the computer and drew it.HP Bday lil bat.

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happy eighteenth baby

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The eighteenth entry for my 30 day art challenge, The Hunter Fox from Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle.

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How to make fun of the Leipzig book fair in 1800?

A thread for and that uses the satirical print "Der Jahrmarkt zu Plundersweilern". Come for the bookish stuff, stay for the pornographical bestsellers of late eighteenth-century Germany.

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This month's free featured article looks at a major London shipping firm of the late eighteenth century known for its work in the African slave trade and Australian convict transportation.

https://t.co/Awu3MbN8zJ

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Purchase a copy of Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi from your local bookshop📚 This is an eminently readable compact biography of a particularly colourful late eighteenth-century personality. A welcome addition to the Writers of Wales series.

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"Plum Pudding". The famous eighteenth century British caricaturist James Gillray’s most famous print, from 1805, shows William Pitt and Napoleon seated at table, carving up the world between them to consume it.

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Back to the eighteenth century for today's new portfolio, Les Bigarrures (almost untranslatable, but roughly 'multicoloured patterns' – of sexual behaviour presumably!). Amazing that these fragile prints have survived. See them at https://t.co/uwojCBICtY. How they lived then ...

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Back to the eighteenth century for today's new portfolio, Les Bigarrures (almost untranslatable, but roughly 'multicoloured patterns' – of sexual behaviour presumably!). Amazing that these fragile prints have survived. See them at https://t.co/uwojCBICtY. How they lived then ...

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Back to the eighteenth century for today's new portfolio, Les Bigarrures (almost untranslatable, but roughly 'multicoloured patterns' – of sexual behaviour presumably!). Amazing that these fragile prints have survived. See them at https://t.co/uwojCBICtY. How they lived then ...

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Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma.
https://t.co/MRPSi93A7U

Arriving on Blu-ray and DVD this week! 💚💗🧡

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