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Amazing! Sarah Stone, who was born in around 1760, painted thousands of watercolors like these of Ashton Lever's museum of natural and manmade artifacts in London. Blog post at : https://t.co/WZItvluNL0

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2021-03-10

More on A description of my Philip Leverhulme Prize-awarded research project has been published in the Feb 2021 Newsletter (p. 14)
https://t.co/PIHH3s9pJb
https://t.co/bhL3jm36mi

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2021-02-24

Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an in 6 movements

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2021-02-23

Birds of the park, and elsewhere: Early Modern Attitudes to the Ravens and Red Kites of London............https://t.co/yLu6GCNoEo

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2021-02-20

"I hear today... that the duke of Buckingham... is dying... His title, I believe, will be extinct, which is all the loss he will be to the nobility or his country"
You can always rely on Lord Hervey

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2021-02-20

Anyone out there interested in/researching/responding to historical portraits of Africans in British art?

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2021-02-20

1689 William III & Mary II were proclaimed King & Queen at the Banqueting House and presented with the Declaration of Rights by the marquess of Halifax as speaker of the House of Lords

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2021-02-13

diplomats were human: in 1727 Lord Waldegrave wrote from Paris to his contact back in hoping that his last dispatch "did not show the influence of

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2021-02-05

Nell Gwyn's parentage remains uncertain: her father might have been a royalist officer, Captain Gwyn, her grandfather possibly a canon of .
Pepys thought her a fine comic actress, but not so good in more dramatic parts
1651

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2021-02-02

There were various options open to in settling the 1) invite James II back under limitations; 2) make William of Orange king; 3) make Princess Mary queen; 4) make William & Mary joint monarchs
1689

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2021-01-22

Save 30% on new book "The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven" by Mark W. Driscoll.
https://t.co/4esB4CG0TH

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2021-01-16

The death of the 7th earl of Leicester in 1743 resulted in a battle royal between his illegitimate daughter, Anne, & his niece, Elizabeth Perry, the one referred to as 'the Fairy' & the other as 'the Empress of Penshurst'. The Empress won.

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2021-01-15

Yesterday's events in Washington a reminder of how easy it was to infiltrate the porous old palace of
https://t.co/GapxjsPx8L

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2021-01-08

1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard & Dr John Jeffries crossed the from Dover to Calais in a balloon, though only after an unseemly argument resulting in Blanchard having to prove he was not weighted down by lead underwear

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2021-01-07

1731, Lincolnshire schoolmaster Stephen Harrison is taken ill at dinner 'which it's thought was occasioned by a piece of a gizzard of a goose which he swallowed too hastily, & expired immediately'

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2021-01-07

Getting to grips with latest book for review & attention drawn to reference to Plautus's ever useful advice:
"Cast not thy meat into a pisspot"

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2020-12-30

Three days before 1747 Fitzwalter discharged his footman, Charles Woollam, paying him off with £2 19s: "an idle, stupid, drunken, good-for-nothing fellow"

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2020-12-23

Foucault and the park: power structures and knowledge and Leeds City Council..........https://t.co/6JybRnabzY https://t.co/48hyQbky1T (Image: Nemomain)

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2020-12-19

"he could judge with calmness & correctness on the data submitted to him, though perhaps not very quickly":
died 1828 Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of from 1812-1827

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2020-12-04