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Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) 19thC French artist
Cleopatra using slaves to check for food poisoning

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2021-10-25

French Costumes in the 1700 and 1800s - There are many descriptions of what people wore in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in France. Some of these descriptions were ... https://t.co/BMptlETQEz

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2021-10-25

James Hadfield: His Attempt on King George III’s Life - was charged with high treason after attempting to assassinate King George III at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the evening of 15 May 1800. https://t.co/MrZsLodihg

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2021-10-25

Dark Thoughts
by Arthur Hughes (#British, 1831-1915,
1870, Black Chalk, Pencil, Charcoal on Cardboard
Private Collection

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2021-10-24

James Hadfield: His Attempt on King George III’s Life - was charged with high treason after attempting to assassinate King at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the evening of 15 May 1800. https://t.co/17Z1LCdvlz

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2021-10-24

A wonderful new webpage showing off the amazing designs and ceramics that we have by the 19thC designer William De Morgan - we'll be adding lots more content over the next few months so watch this space! https://t.co/cLO70DR8tY

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2021-10-20

James Hadfield: His Attempt on King George III’s Life - was charged with high treason after attempting to assassinate King at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the evening of 15 May 1800. https://t.co/2Qho13vG9u

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2021-10-20

Caroline Norton: Fighting Against Injustice - was born in London on 22 March 1808 to actor, solider, and colonial administrator Thomas Sheridan and his novelist wife, Caroline Henriette ... https://t.co/Y45syUa1w7

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2021-10-13

Caroline Norton: Fighting Against Injustice - was born in London on 22 March 1808 to actor, solider, and colonial administrator Thomas Sheridan and his novelist wife, Caroline Henriette ... https://t.co/mKkwWgcftZ

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2021-10-12

Laura Bell and Preacher of the 1800s - Laura Eliza Jane Seymour Bell was born in 1829 in Glenavy in Northern Ireland to Captain R. H. Bell, who managed Hertford’s Antrim estates, and ... https://t.co/MnEmVxmgov

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2021-10-02

Guest Post on my book review blog:
Tom Williams talks about the Indian Mutiny and the republication of his book, Cawnpore.
https://t.co/qLBy6WFFa2

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2021-09-14

Bertha Heyman: “Big Bertha” or the “#ConfidenceQueen” - Born in 1851 in Kobly, near Posen, in Prussia, Bertha Schlesinger, later known as was a 19th century swindler dubbed “Big Bertha” or the ... https://t.co/TMja5189af

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2021-09-14

"Theatre of War: The Cloud" by me. Thinking abt military interoperability in the age of The Cloud. Also thinking abt 19thC John Ruskin's thoughts on 'plague clouds'/'plague winds'. Conceived painting as an excavation, like a geog slice or maybe it's a map? https://t.co/3jrEYEyYRU

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2021-09-12

Evening Hairstyles of the 1860s by Henri de Bysterveld - During the 1860s, Henri de a hairdresser and editor of the Gazette of Hair, published several books and elevated hairdressing to an ... https://t.co/llEnZPzCpR

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2021-09-08

Born 7Sep1805 Samuel English Bishop known as "Soapy Sam" and one of the greatest public speakers of his day. His nickname derived from a comment by Benjamin Disraeli that his manner was "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous."

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2021-09-07

Queen Elizabeth I decreed only the royal family could wear purple. In the early 19thc purple dye was made using (rather scarce) snake droppings later replaced by (more prevalent) cormorant guano. This murexide purple was lightfast but faded in coal-polluted air

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2021-09-02

RT : Small and lightly armed British privateer, alone and far from any base to fall back on, did not hesitate to take on two Spanish warships in ferocious action off coast of Peru on 1801. https://t.co/r9rTGuiy20

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2021-08-25