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The biggest loser from the battle of Prestonpans was the British commander, Sir John Cope, who was lampooned for executing a very rapid to Berwick; but the whole army was castigated for being 'seized with a Panick' & fleeing after firing one round

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2020-09-03

Adorable brown and white Norfolk or water spaniel painted by George Stubbs in 1778 at ! Stubbs was most famous for his paintings of animals, especially horses, and studied their anatomy: https://t.co/On4RZO0YIL

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2020-08-31

The Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey’s Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World’s First Encyclopedia of Trees
https://t.co/cY1K2XfxNy

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2020-08-30

"May your years be multiplied to my fond wishes & never know an hour of sorrow"
Lady Bristol to Lord Bristol (born 1665) on the eve of his in 1721

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2020-08-27

1715 the House of Lords debated the impeachment of the 2nd duke of Ormond. After he failed to appear to answer the charges he was to James Butler, Yeoman, & his arms as a Knight of the Garter in St George's Windsor taken down & pulverized

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2020-08-15

In a not very effective effort to avoid prying eyes the duchess of Beaufort (born 1711) & her lover Lord Talbot arranged assignations in the equivalent of a country lay-by.
Unsurprisingly the coachmen were watching & later gave evidence against.

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2020-08-14

In James Forbes' Mango and the Art of the British Indian Empire, explores questions of power and agency found in the imperial entanglement of visual art and natural history. Not to be missed!

https://t.co/7kTHUjqOa7

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2020-07-27

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2020-07-23

Summer 1730 & the 1st earl of Sussex makes his will insisting that his book remain at his house so 'they may be always used & enjoyed' by the owner.
The 2nd & 3rd earls died without heirs; the house was demolished.

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2020-07-20

Grenville had considered applying for a a few years before going to the Lords, but admitted that he feared it might have "the appearance of putting myself hors de combat. I am not in the same mind about it for any 10 minutes together."

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2020-07-18

1757 Thomas Potter was elected MP for Okehampton, completing the triangular arrangement by which he had left John Wilkes his seat at after Pitt the Elder quit Okehampton for Bath

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2020-07-13

Born 1757 Thomas Rowlandson, artist & caricaturist of Georgian

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2020-07-13

"What can be more necessary... than to set people right in that which most concerns them, their religious & civil liberties & justify the proceedings of the present age by those of the past?"
John Oldmixon, Whig historian, died 1742

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2020-07-09

Died at noon 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, impresario, playwright & MP, whose oratory in was second to none.
His death was "rapidly accelerated by grief, disappointment, & a deep sense of the neglect he experienced."

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2020-07-07

1783 the House of Lords debated the bribery bill. The earl of Sandwich spoke against lambasting it as:
"a bill of absurdities & such as was fraught with much mischief to the constitutional freedom of election"

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2020-06-25

is John Oldcastle, MP for Herefordshire in 1404, though this is not why he is well-known!

A close friend of Henry V, in 1413 Oldcastle was convicted of heresy but was able to evade execution for 4 years.
Read his bio here: https://t.co/tZqgCdn9qS

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2020-06-08

"The liberty of the press is the birth-right of a Briton, and is justly esteemed the firmest bulwark of the liberties of this country". Opening line of John Wilkes's The North Briton No.1 published 1762

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2020-06-05

Married 1747 John Wilkes & Mary Mead. Mary's property enabled Wilkes to refashion himself as squire of & gave him an entrée into
The marriage didn't last.

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2020-05-23

Born 1770 Princess Elizabeth, 3rd daughter of George III. The family celebrated her 24th in 1794 with music & a late supper before bed at midnight.
She later married the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

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2020-05-22