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21 Mar 1480: John Islip clothed as a #Benedictine monk #otd He would go on, in 1500, to become the last Abbot of #Westminster Abbey before Henry VIII's break with #Rome (BM)
Carlo Bossoli (Italian, 1815-1884)
Evening pleasures outside the gates of Constantinople
Piazza del Duomo, Milan
A view of Westminster Palace from Lambeth
The Monastery of San Michele, Italy
Worst #UK regions for #CoronaVirus #COVID19 :
Cases per 100,000 people:
Shetland: 35
Kensington & Chelsea: 23
Westminster: 15
Camden: 10
Southwark: 9
Hammersmith & Fulham: 9
Lambeth: 8
Barnet: 7
Brent: 6
Ealing: 6
#London now has 9 of the 10 worst affected regions.
9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd
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6 Mar 1616: d. Francis Beaumont #otd, playwright, #poet, student of Ben Jonson, close collaborator with John Fletcher. Buried in #Westminster Abbey in May 1616. (NPG)
27 Feb 1641: Audley Mervyn presents articles of impeachment against Bishop John Bramhall, Richard Bolton & George Radcliffe in the #Irish parliament #otd - aimed, in part, to keep the trio from testifying in favour of the Earl of Strafford at #Westminster (Sidney Sussex/eebo)
New pictures have just been released, showing the inside and outside of the property at Marylebone in Westminster, where police last night thwarted what is already being called the Cato Street conspiracy, a plot to murder Lord Liverpool's Cabinet.
Althea Gyles (right) with Constance Markiewicz c.1898. Gyles was an Irish poet and artist, friend of Oscar Wilde & W. B. Yeats. Markiewicz was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament #womensart
3/25発売! CHILDISH TONES feat. 宇佐蔵べに 🆕7インチ「思い出のロックンロール / なればいい」こちらが通常盤、ブラックヴァイナルのジャケ。今回限り(?)のWestminster Affairなフランス語表記と写真はアレ(のオマージュ)です🕶
Here is my baby as a #AnimalCrossing character, i did this yesterday but had forgot to post it~
enjoy
#BB13OnVoot #prayforjay #WestminsterDogShow2020 #BestInShow #BernieBeatsTrump #SidharthKeAsliFans #AnimalCrossingNewHorizon #AnimalCrossingPocketCamp
Thank you @S_Hammond for standing with Hong Kong in Westminster today by saying "we believe that the right to peaceful protest is a fundamental political right and this should be defended anywhere in the world". #StandwithHK
27 Jan 1606: As Guy Fawkes and seven others stand trial in #Westminster Hall #otd only Sir Everard Digby pleads guilty. Forty three years later #otd Charles I would be condemned to death at the same spot - Digby's son Kenelm had been a member of his Privy Council
#OTD 1606 trial of Guy Fawkes & 7 others for attempting to blow up the Parliament House began. Attorney General, Sir Edward Coke prosecuted case & spectators paid 10s for entry to Westminster Hall. Background explained in ‘God’s Traitors’ by @childs_jessie https://t.co/tcRvA2G7ex
Born #onthisday1691 Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger Flemish #sculptor who spent most of his creative life in England His classical religious (15 of his busts figures & monuments are in Westminster Abbey) & public sculptures widely influenced the …
Have you heard about the new UK exclusive Scooby-Doo 50th anniversary collectible coin from Westminster? Check it out here: https://t.co/KMwBcTFcxe
So...who’s next?
2020 begins with @youngvulgarian’s guide to Westminster: ‘Haven’t You Heard? Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works’ (@bonnierbooks_uk).
Start the year with a reality check by joining the author at her favourite corner table with @jackaldane this January.