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Eccentric London dentist Martin Van Butchell rode his purple painted pony in Hyde Park on Sundays and displayed his embalmed wife in his surgery. Find out why at https://t.co/viU76fsKxo

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2019-03-01

A great curse and a great article title:
"Pox on Both Your Houses: The Battle of the Romeos"
by Leslie Ritchie (ECF 27.3-4 (2015)
https://t.co/WAbFljPz6b

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2019-02-28

Watercolor created in 1790 by George Moutard Woodward that is titled "Preperations for a New Comedy" or "A Green Room in Town."

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2019-02-21

Born 1717 David Garrick, actor & impresario, a key figure in reviving interest in the plays of

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2019-02-19

The ECF archive is stuffed with fascinating
A curated special issue takes the guess-work out of searching.
The virtual issue on Propaganda is a sure thing:
https://t.co/fgP7Jr2pOj

Today is Family Day in Ontario, so the ECF office is closed.

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2019-02-19

RT : On All Things we take a look at the Isherwoods, an brewing family from
https://t.co/mLJI9nYkea

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2019-02-17

“Thank you... I thought it might be too much...?”

Was there such a thing as ‘too much’ for the eighteenth century gentleman when it came to choosing an impressive outfit?

Find out at our next lecture Tue 19th Feb

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2019-02-13

While authors didn't describe a low mood as "the blues," they did write about melancholy:
At Seventeen: Adolescence in Sense and Sensibility
by Shawn Lisa Maurer
https://t.co/ABi6u4BUhQ
ECF 25.4 (2013)

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2019-02-11

On All Things we take a look at the Isherwoods, an brewing family from
https://t.co/SxcwFbKTfW

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2019-02-11

I spy with my lil’👁: a spoiled pup (Danish,1780), a smug cat (St-Cloud,1745) & a ravenous rabbit (Chelsea,1775-76)🐕🐇🐈Charmed by the tenderness in the 1st figure: so relatable bc I once had to carry my golden retriever around when it was a puppy

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2019-02-10

Getting another post in under the wire:
"The Vehicle of the Soul: Motion and Emotion in Vehicular It-Narratives"
by Sara Landreth
https://t.co/8p5OOreH3c
ECF 26.1, 2013

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2019-02-06

Mark Catesby's early 18thc ‘Natural History’, credited with being the first fully-illustrated study of North American and Catesby rejected ‘artistic’ techniques believing they compromised truth, using instead what he called ‘a Flat tho’ exact manner’

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2019-01-30

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The story of a domesticated tiger' https://t.co/aPinRdAPLC

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2019-01-27

Currently battling some of the challenges of phonetic spellings & impenetrable nicknames. Lady Bristol referred to Lord Bathurst as Batters which is clear enough but the duke of Richmond had a friend known only as Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha which is a tougher nut to crack

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2019-01-24

"L'Escarpolette" ('The Swing') by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) painted from 1767-1768. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era.

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2019-01-04

This atmospheric 18thc watercolour shows the Seven Churches at Glendalough in Wicklow, Ireland, with worshipers processing by the light of torches for Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. (What's going on on the right?) https://t.co/Ooye724KOL

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2018-12-24