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As we start preparing for our next edition, don't forget to check out Kate Hill's reflections on the legacy of women collectors, art writers and philanthropists and to invest in this legacy to help us question the our discipline today. https://t.co/rxrUDooIZz

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2021-04-14

Queen Victoria’s Visit to France in 1843 - visit to see the King of the French at the Château d’Eu in Normandy on 2 September 1843 made headline news. She was the first British monarch to visit ... https://t.co/JFHhM1UPCK

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2021-04-09

The angel of death striking a door during the Antonine Plague of 165-180 AD. The total death count has been estimated at 5–10 million. Not as if we have not seen them before. Please can we be a bit more ready next time?
An 19thC engraving by Levasseur after Jules-Elie Delaunay.

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2021-04-05

Parisian Gaming Houses in the Early 1800s - were first licensed in Paris in 1775 with the idea that the profits would be applied to aid Parisian hospitals. Soon there were twelve gaming ... https://t.co/YuiesG5OG2

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2021-03-29

The ‘daffodowndilly’, the ‘Flower of March’, the ‘trumpet flower’… the daffodil is a flower of many names!

Visit our online exhibition to discover more about this surprisingly varied springtime flower…
https://t.co/I4WgcJXrUJ

Images by 19thC daffodil breeder William Herbert

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2021-03-27

Shaping The Past https://t.co/WgY9q73m5u 'The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.' Anthony Beevor

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2021-03-24

Born 20Mar1811 II also known as Duke of Reichstadt was son of Napoleon I and Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. He never ruled France but was briefly the titular Emperor of the French. https://t.co/ycgbniVvTD

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2021-03-20

Today marks the start of - these stunning illustrations by 19thc surgeon, neurologist & artist Charles Bell are from Anatomy of the Brain (1802). Bell is perhaps best known for describing the effects of paralysis on the 7th cranial nerve 'Bell's Palsy'

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2021-03-15

12Mar1807 General Sir James Abbott a British army officer and administrator in colonial India. The Pakistani city of Abbottabad was founded by and named after him. Here is he shown in Afghan dress.

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2021-03-13

I made my Prussian lad a friend (more like a frenemy, haha)
He’s a Frenchman named Émilien Delacour, a hopeless romantic who also enjoys writing poetry ✨
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2021-03-12

Viller's of d'Ognes was initially attributed to Jacques Louis David, but in 1995 Margaret Oppenheimer made a strong case for it to be the work of Villers. 2/

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2021-03-03

Tales of the SMP masquerade Niki!! And the dress was inspired by 19th-century fashion! I had a blast drawing Learia, might do more dream SMP fanart more 😌

I hope you like it! 🥺💕

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2021-02-13

🧧Happy
2021 is the 1st time Thailand has had an official holiday today
For here's a 19thC Thai Phrommachat from our & Special Collections; here it describes Ox qualities, looking very cheerful, along with its avatar (Deva)

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2021-02-12

We're live on YouTube w/ Karen Sánchez-Eppler + for a conversation abt how a forgotten 19thC play was used to propagate white supremacy and settler colonialism, w/ implications for our own day. https://t.co/Yi6mCbZ5nJ

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2021-02-12

Birds were popular pets during the Victorian era. We believe this drawing of Jacquot might have been done by Dorothy Walker when she was a child.

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2021-02-11

"#Berlin Houses in the Snow", an 1847 painting by Adolph von brilliant 19thC GER painter most famous for his historical works. This picture is most likely the view from Menzel's own flat at the time. He lived in Ritterstr. 43 in today's

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2021-02-09

The ‘good people’ once danced in the meadows between and

Eyewitness accounts from the describe them as 3ft tall, sparkling from head to foot.

Now the busy A14 road thunders between the two towns; the are seen no more.

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2021-02-09

A folio from a scroll of meditative chakras depicting divinities Shiva and Shakti seated in a floral seat, perhaps lotus,
18th,19thC, Rajasthan, Bonhams

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2021-02-04