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HELP #Twitterstorians! I'm currently researching Danish-Americans in US service during #WW1, and I'm looking for first hand accounts of Da-Am soldiers. Do you know any - both published and in archives/collections/libraries/museums? Please do retweet and cc! Thanks
#WWI #History
'The Moral of Flowers: An Illustrated Victorian Encyclopedia of Poetic Lessons from the Garden'
https://t.co/RjnuxG92aT
#19thC #Victorian #nature #twitterstorians #botanical @brainpickings
Loving this rendering of General Sherman by @JenRolingArt in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of his birth, on February 8, 1820. #CivilWar #SUVCW 🇺🇸🇺🇸#HonorVeterans #AmericanHistory #twitterstorians
@HistParl @bodleianlibs @ChCh_Oxford The experience was not a wholly positive one and some students returned to find their rooms had been trashed by the MPs & Lords
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@jdmccafferty @HistParl @BridMcGrath @ColemanDennehy @17thCenturyLady @PlymPrivateer "His Majestie was Graciously pleased to tell them:
He was at the head of the #Government and would do what was fitt to be done" [Morrice Entring Book]
#HistParl #twitterstorians
North had every reason to resent the success of the younger Pitt. In summer 1781 H Walpole had noted:
"The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day... he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"
#HistParl #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay 1783 time was running out for the Fox North coalition. Viscount Maitland argued in the Commons against royal influence asking: ‘whether this country was henceforth to be governed by a public & responsible administration, or by a secret cabal’
#HistParl #twitterstorians
@RossRossflowers John Miller's biography in the @yalepress British monarchs series is still good; as is the fine 2 vol set by John Callow published by @TheHistoryPress
There is also, of course, the entry in our @HistParl
House of Lords 1660-1715 volumes!
Any other thoughts #twitterstorians?
Seminar next Wednesday! We’ll be joined by Natalie Lawrence @the_manticore_ who will be talking on ‘Global Greed and the Gluttonous Dodo.’ All welcome, @kingshistory room S8.08 at 6pm. #animalhistory #twitterstorians
"The Lords degenerate by Luxury Idleness &c and the Crown is always forced to govern by new Men" Jonathan Swift, #December 1719
#Parliament #twitterstorians
Too good to be true? 1716 #advertisement for the "Famous drops for Hypochondriack Melancholy which effectually cure on the spot... setting the Intellectuals at Liberty to Act with Courage, Serenity and steady Chearfulness..."
Only 3 shillings, 6 pence a bottle
#twitterstorians
Our next seminar is on 11th December when we’ll be joined by Natalie Lawrence @the_manticore_ who will be talking on ‘Global Greed and the Gluttonous Dodo.’ All welcome, @kingshistory room S8.08 at 6pm. #animalhistory #twitterstorians
'The 19th-Century French Frenzy for Species Swapping, in a Single Chart'
'It was predicated on "the idea that European powers knew what was best for the entire world”'. https://t.co/blAwqhO3Ze
#19thC #victorian #twitterstorians
The Call for Papers for the @RAFMUSEUM 2020 Conference is now open. Submissions are welcomed for short and long papers on topics addressing ‘THE RAF in a WORLD TRANSFORMED, 1945-1949’ For full details visit https://t.co/Tzhcm9pgWc …
#twitterstorians #conference #airpower #cfp
Today is the vigil of St Cecilia, who is buried in Sta Cecilia in Trastevere. I love its c820s Parousia apse, c1290s Last Judgement by Cavallini, & Maderno’s c1500 marble sculpture of the martyr, bound for her burial- a quiet but haunting Baroque masterpiece #twitterstorians #otd
Died #OnThisDay 1723 "drowned in drink" Lord Carr Hervey, older brother of 'Lord Hervey' & MP for Bury St Edmunds
https://t.co/bL9vkaF4o9
#HistParl #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay 1688 the people of Brixham were greeted by the arrival of an invasion fleet: William of Orange making landfall on the fortuitous anniversary of the discovery of the #GunpowderPlot.
Now he had to wait to see who would rally to him.
#gloriousrevolution #twitterstorians
A new reporting period & a new list of Georgian Lords to start drafting.
First out of the gate is Charles Fitzroy, duke of Southampton & Cleveland, son of Charles II & Barbara Villiers.
Even his mother thought him 'a very kockish idle boy'
#HistParl #twitterstorians
#archives & #research This is what the start of a good day looks like for me — and I am reasonably certain for a number of my fellow #twitterstorians @MHS1791 @MHS1791_Ref
I'm looking for a biography on Colonel Daniel Morgan. There are a bunch of them on Amazon. Does any have a recommendation? #twitterstorians #AmRev #book