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Soap ads were often overtly racist. They The ads promoted the "whitening" quality of the soap by showing it being used to wash off "dirty" black or brown skin. and https://t.co/dWHsWHycst

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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

My dear and brilliant colleague Nuala P. Caomhánach is giving a talk next month, "Black Lives, Botany, and the Path to Decolonization," at the (, https://t.co/6SrJhXysna

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2021-01-19

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

"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