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#OnThisDay 1794 Queen Charlotte was planning ahead, selecting her 'summer silks'
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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 @churchill_alex & I created 2 years ago!
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The feast of William the Conqueror. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, probably 11-12th century.
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Wrestling, 1467.
Published in the fencing manual written by German fencing master Hans Talhoffer (1420-1490).
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#February 1750: #London 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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William Henry Drayton: Populist, Patriot, Politician. https://t.co/FFJoMXvjvV #history #Twitterstorians #Britishhistory #Americanhistory #politics #Georgians #Charleston #SouthCarolina #WarforIndependence #WilliamHenryDrayton #AmericanRevolution #populism #DraytonHall
William Henry Drayton: Populist, Patriot Politician. https://t.co/FFJoMXvjvV #history #Twitterstorians #Britishhistory #politics #Americanhistory #Georgians #Charleston #SouthCarolina #WarforIndependence #WilliamHenryDrayton #AmericanRevolution #populism #DraytonHall
MHN welcomes articles from published authors & historians. Here are our recent contributors' latest books.
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Born #OnThisDay 1749 Charles James Fox, towering politician of the 2nd half of the #18thcentury:
"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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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 #twitterstorians #earlymodern
Through the autobiography of George King (1787-1857), @FoundlingMuseum 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 #twitterstorians #museums #histmed #earlymodern
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 #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #histsci #insects #science
Edinburgh journal of natural history and the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier from 1835-1840 at @BioDivLibrary - volume one (https://t.co/4GYLFBtegN) and volume two (https://t.co/8wUg7bPAtQ). #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #histsci #science
Maps and the park: How early European Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the expanding World ........ https://t.co/9uGmiXLd5Y #maps #animals #twitterstorians
Oh, those Witty Georgians. https://t.co/j2nbY5rPHO #history #Twitterstorians #Britishhistory #Georgians #humor #humour #JohnWilkes #Hogarth
Little Christmas joys, the #1920s.
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Twitterstorians, a question from my Grandma’s China cupboard— does anyone have any idea what this is/how old it might be?
Something for lunch. Buying fish and green groceries, Netherlands, circa 1720-30.
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