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The Bottle Conjuror of 1749 - On 16 January 1749, at the New Theater in Haymarket, an anonymous person known as the “#BottleConjuror” or “Bottle Conjurer” was set to perform a variety of amazing feats at six-thirty ... https://t.co/1JzWJWwETD

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2020-02-07

Pirate copies of work is nothing new. Find out how it was dealt with in the at our Annual Lecture taking place this month.

Book your place now!

https://t.co/9rX9AmYhA1

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2020-02-01

"He cast off a certain damsel of the Court there and then. If Mary was Perdita, he was to be Florizel. But, of late, I fancy there’s a change in the wind. Mrs Robinson takes her position a shade too seriously..." https://t.co/odeDJUSCCN

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2020-01-30

The Phrygian Cap or the Cap of Liberty: The phrygian cap — a soft, conical, brimless cap from antiquity — came to be associated with freedom and was adopted as the “Cap of Liberty” during the It was first used ...

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2020-01-28

Stories About the French Revolution by Those Who Lived It: Stories about the French Revolution frequently begin with the fall of the Bastille that happened on 14 July 1789 when revolutionaries stormed ... https://t.co/LQ1nIuZzKr

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2020-01-26

French Revolution: Last Words of Those Who Died: The was a tumultuous ten-year period from 1789 to 1799 that had far-reaching social and political affects. During this time, there were... https://t.co/kknjN6IIgR

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2020-01-21

Stories About the French Revolution by Those Who Lived It: Stories about the frequently begin with the fall of the Bastille that happened on 14 July 1789 when revolutionaries stormed ... https://t.co/uxnVlWebBo

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2020-01-20

16Jan1749 The Bottle Conjuror was supposed to appear on stage at the New Theater in Haymarket and when he didn't a riot ensued. Learn more: https://t.co/0Oe5q5AYpK

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2020-01-16

What Marie Antoinette Wore in the Eighteenth Century: In the eighteenth century everyone talked about what wore and she came to be perceived by the French public as a ... https://t.co/EnwKvRa9Gw

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2020-01-11

When your wife looks good in everything so you gotta get the whole store. I'm so in love with married au! Bonus Zira in Crowley's color pallet.

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2020-01-07

It’s Do you recognize the source for these angry babies?

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2020-01-07

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!! 🎊🎊🎊 I hope you like this little present of my own, your AU is super cute keep the good job this 2020 💕💕

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2020-01-01

Died 1748 Charles Seymour "Proud" duke of
Both he & his duchess were major figures at the court of Queen Anne
https://t.co/mubCTscfP4

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2019-12-02

Phrase of the day: "froth and whipsillabub" - what people made of promises made to the population of by the bishops of Llandaff in the

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2019-11-28

Beautiful engraving from
Recueil des plans, élévations et coupes; an folio on French gardens and castles by Emmanuel Héré.
https://t.co/K9E7ncH0Cr

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2019-11-27

Louis Jean Desprez produced Tomb with Sphinx (c. 1779-1784, Cleveland Museum of Art) using aquatint and engraving printmaking techniques. He drew inspiration from southern Italian catacombs, but added fictional elements like the feet of the deceased.

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2019-11-23

Executed 1769: Six at Tyburn, “most of them, sir, have never thought at all” https://t.co/TbqSExpIXl via

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2019-11-19

Trying something new:
a thread of Jane Austen articles in ECF,
sort of an "instant special issue" from the archives.
First up:
Jane Austen and “Banal Shakespeare,” by Megan Taylor
ECF Volume 27, Number 1, Fall 2014, pp. 105-125
https://t.co/E3vDmn2VdT

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2019-11-13