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Meeting of Napoleon and Alexander I in Tilsit. The two emperors met in a pavilion set up on a raft in the middle of the Neman River. July 1807.
by Adolphe Roehn.

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2021-06-30

Sitt al-Mulk has recently joined the Snoo crew, and this amazing post from is perfect for learning about the amazing life and adventures of this Tunisian-born medieval princess!
https://t.co/Ig2lvtfr5k

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2021-06-29

The King was criticized for wearing a Hanoverian rather than British sash, but this was subtly corrected in the paintings commemorating the battle
https://t.co/BF6UeTWOrs

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2021-06-28

In summer 1784 Polly Wilkes was in & clearly gasping for a good cup of Wilkes undertook to smuggle some out to her warning 'It must go in small parcels, as it is strongly prohibited'

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2021-06-26

Alexander the Great cuts the Gordian knot, by Jean-Simon Berthélemy, 1767.

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2021-06-25

the Georgian Lords passed 9,000 tweets since setting up shop in May 2017.
How did that happen?

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2021-06-25

When Sir Robert Walpole fell from power one satirist had a field day depicting him evacuating all the offices he controlled. Among those lurking in the background under the legend "we come in now" was Bishop Smalbroke who clearly hoped to cash in

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2021-06-24

Prussian king Frederick the Great inspects the potato harvest outside Neustettin, today's Szczecinek, Poland.

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2021-06-18

Woollarrawarre Bennelong was a warrior of the Eora, in particular the Wangal clan in Australia. relates how he would journey across the world, and his many interactions with the British settlers.
https://t.co/pXdfnEo8tT

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2021-06-15

1780 Lord George Gordon was arrested at 6 in the evening. He was sent to on a charge of high treason for inciting the that had transfixed since the 2nd

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2021-06-09

Resources and the park: The Project is dedicated to digitizing 100% of the League of Nations Archives .......... important contribution to the history of multilateralism........ https://t.co/BNQvsWfHoO

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2021-06-08

Birthday in the park: Lillian Snelling, 1879-1972, principal artist and lithographer to Curtis's Botanical Magazine between 1921 and 1952 ........ https://t.co/AMuPpIAHN0

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2021-06-08

Hello Working on a new side-project.

Please flag any and all children's/YA books related to James Cook and his voyages (and those from other perspectives, like Tupaia's), contemporary or historical.

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2021-06-08

1794 the royal family went to the opera to hear 'the famous singer' Brigida Giorgi Branti. She rounded off the evening with a rendition of God Save the King 'as if she were a native of England'

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2021-06-03

1662 Samuel Pepys (who died 1703) took his wife to see Marlowe's Dr Faustus at the Red Bull 'but so wretchedly & poorly done, that we were sick of it'

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2021-05-26

1794 there was a session in the House of Lords as they debated the Habeas Corpus bill, sitting till 2 the next morning... It passed with a thumping majority of almost 100.

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2021-05-22

Resources and the park: Create memes and discover the Middle Ages........ https://t.co/6Sf42OqQOQ

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2021-05-22

Queen Charlotte celebrated her 50th on 19 May 1794 dancing till 4 in the morning at The King was back up & on the road to Kew at half past 9 & the Queen up by 10 for breakfast

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2021-05-20

Mission France is out, published by Yale University Press and described as 'a meticulously researched and highly readable historical narrative & a fitting epitaph to the agents courage and humanity'

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2021-05-14