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"Never submit to stir a finger in any business but that for which you were particularly hired"
Jonathan Swift, born 1667

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2020-11-30

Died 28Nov1801 Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French that had the mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano named after him.

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2020-11-29

1688 James II reached but rapidly abandoned plans to push his cavalry forward to meet William of Orange as he didn't trust them not to defect. He took to his bed suffering from stress & constant nosebleeds

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2020-11-19

in 1840, Dickens finishes the 35th number of The Old Curiosity Shop. He writes to his friend John Forster that "the difficulty has been tremendous — the anguish unspeakable".

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2020-11-12

1688 William of Orange made his landing at Torbay. With him was an invasion army numbering between 14,000 & 15,000, including troops from Switzerland, Finland & 200 black soldiers from Dutch plantations in

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2020-11-05

Out soon: 'Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour', by Dr Sarah Goldsmith https://t.co/nL320wkWAr

Latest in 'New Historical Perspectives' series from IHR, and .

Available free and print from 30 November

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2020-11-03

Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at , attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H

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2020-10-31

and Raiders of the lost Web: World Wide Web archiving discovery challenge! Find a work of from which could be the archetype of a now famous internet https://t.co/1P2kMvtrCx

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2020-10-21

Natural history and the park: A woman tenderfoot, by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, 1901, BHL/University of Toronto, https://t.co/22ETGYaZsy

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2020-10-20

"When you have done a fault, be always pert & insolent & behave yourself as if you were the injured person"
Jonathan Swift, died 1745

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2020-10-19

"Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none: if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest"
Jonathan Swift, died in 1745

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2020-10-19

A whimsical illustration by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville (1803-1847) from his 1844 collection, "Un autre monde: transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations..." https://t.co/nkt2WeF8H1

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2020-10-18

"Never hold anybody by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them"
Lord Chesterfield, 1748

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2020-10-16

Prior to Marie Antoinette's execution 1793 Horace Walpole had queried: "Can one believe that they are human beings, who 'midst all their confusions sit coolly meditating new tortures, new anguish for that poor, helpless, miserable woman?'

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2020-10-16

1739 - Earl Fitzwalter settles with his shoemaker for thin at 7 shillings a pair, and 'strong ones' at 8 shillings: in all £3: 9 shillings.

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2020-09-30

9/9 If you’d like to know more about Najaf’s (complicated) South Asian connection & its consequences, I can highly recommend these works by great colleagues, such as . If you enjoyed this thread, give me a follow . Thanks!~swf

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2020-09-29

Beginning to chip away at a new biography, & have been referred from the off to EB Chancellor's Lives of the Rakes. It's going to be a good one...

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2020-09-24

The festival may be almost over but there is still plenty to watch and listen to online.

And after today there is still ! Our brand new history and heritage podcast, check it out here https://t.co/NBewU1fS5q

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2020-09-21

Beautiful! The 1767 edition of Mark Catesby's "A collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America" at . Source via : https://t.co/g66InEwB1g

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2020-09-14

Late summer 1730 one of the earl of Thomond's servants is robbed by highwaymen on heath. One of them tries to himself by 'wearing his own hair, which he put in at each corner of his mouth'

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2020-09-11