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June 1732 the Prince of Wales & others attend the Ridotto al Fresco at Vauxhall. The Prince calls it a night at 2am, but most of the party-goers carry on for another 3 hours

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2021-05-07

The astrologer and physician Anthony Ascham's astronomy book from 1526-27 at translated Sacrobosco's "De sphaera mundi" and also included Ascham's poem about the magician Saint Cyprian of Antioch: https://t.co/2Xsh5rb1LS

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2021-05-05

Dati's "La Sfera" from ca. 1450-1500 at , a rhyming explanation of astronomy and navigation with lovely tinted drawings: https://t.co/lO2aeoXiUT

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2021-05-04

Taken from an upcoming Special Issue published in Notes and Records find out about Taylor White's Collection of paintings from the 1700s https://t.co/bBmjSRIzur

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2021-04-30

Taken from an upcoming Special Issue for Notes and Records this paper explores Taylor White (1701–1772) who has been substantially ignored in the historiography of science https://t.co/xLldqpbjLy

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2021-04-30

now to the full set of History of Emotions 'From grief to wonder: exploring emotions in Irish History'. Find them now at https://t.co/6Pzsu7cTAT

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2021-04-27

Entertaining blog from our colleagues upstairs in on the role of pubs, drink & drunkenness in including the case of one character who pitched forward head-first into a privy & was stuck by the shoulders for several hours...
https://t.co/tnrT6aLnVE

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2021-04-26

Robinson Crusoe and the park: first published 25/4/1719 ....... https://t.co/Y29FmgCpZS

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2021-04-25

Chinese heritage and the park: Explore curated collections and engaging stories about Chinese customs, tradition, culture and history........ https://t.co/aKvMz746UO

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2021-04-20

1794 there was no drawing room at court, so Queen Charlotte dressed at 1pm & then spent the time till dinner sitting for her portrait - possibly this one by Gainsborough of that year...

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2021-04-17

"You will be entertained with a prophecy which my Lord Chesterfield has found in the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, which clearly promises us victory over the French"
Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, 1755

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2021-04-13

A name to conjure with: Cornet Wildgoose, one of the officers wounded at the battle of Almenara in 1710

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2021-04-13

"Is the cellphone the modern equivalent of a manual?" In episode 4 of our "Science Social" podcast🎙️we explore the fascinating history of manuals & handbooks 💭📚📱with Mathias Grote & Elaine Leong

🎧🔗https://t.co/8vHqJq0QvJ

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2021-03-30

"she moved with a simplicity that proved her to be unconscious of the charm which bound the world to her attraction" [Morning Chronicle]: died at 3.30am 1806, Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire

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2021-03-30

Today, some insight into Lincoln's literary tastes from a letter to James H. Hackett:

"For one of my age I have seen very little of the drama. The first...

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2021-03-23

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