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Have you ever been mesmerized?
Today at Nursing Clio, explores the 19th-century wellness trend and how mesmerism threatened the status quo and caused a gender panic.
https://t.co/Rtqcmc2cJ0

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2020-03-03

The caption reads, "I wore tennis shoes so I could feel the rudder pedals. I was also 19 years old. 1943." I love the personal touches on old photos. Check out those shoes!

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2020-02-29

HELP I'm currently researching Danish-Americans in US service during 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

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2020-02-26

'The Moral of Flowers: An Illustrated Victorian Encyclopedia of Poetic Lessons from the Garden'
https://t.co/RjnuxG92aT

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2020-02-17

200 years ago Princess Augusta swore allegiance to the new king, IV, writing 'that kind brother to whom I shall never cease to be the affectionate sister- sincere friend and dutifull subject'. https://t.co/7FzBrLneNQ

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2020-02-02

🕰️Hello, fans! Just a few days left to catch our fabulous pop-up exhibit exploring the "Life & Legacy" of Abigail Adams. All the details here: https://t.co/y7HnuVVFCP

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2020-01-28

Loving this rendering of General Sherman by in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of his birth, on February 8, 1820. 🇺🇸🇺🇸#HonorVeterans

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2020-01-26

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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2020-01-20

"His Majestie was Graciously pleased to tell them:
He was at the head of the and would do what was fitt to be done" [Morrice Entring Book]

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2020-01-13

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"

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2019-12-19

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’

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2019-12-17

John Miller's biography in the British monarchs series is still good; as is the fine 2 vol set by John Callow published by
There is also, of course, the entry in our
House of Lords 1660-1715 volumes!
Any other thoughts

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2019-12-16

Anthony Grafton (), "Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe" (, 2019; https://t.co/OITRRp7W3G

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2019-12-08

Seminar next Wednesday! We’ll be joined by Natalie Lawrence who will be talking on ‘Global Greed and the Gluttonous Dodo.’ All welcome, room S8.08 at 6pm.

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2019-12-05

"The Lords degenerate by Luxury Idleness &c and the Crown is always forced to govern by new Men" Jonathan Swift, 1719

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2019-12-05

Too good to be true? 1716 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

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2019-12-04

Our next seminar is on 11th December when we’ll be joined by Natalie Lawrence who will be talking on ‘Global Greed and the Gluttonous Dodo.’ All welcome, room S8.08 at 6pm.

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2019-11-29

'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

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2019-11-27

🎂Pssst, fans & Did you 275th birthday is tomorrow? Join us at 2pm (Friday 11/22) for a special gallery talk on Abigail's enduring "Life & Legacy" https://t.co/8fyY9gM1of

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2019-11-22

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

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2019-11-21