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Laurence Sterne, one of my favourite Georgians, died #onthisday in 1768! #twitterstorians
#Onthisday in 1702, Queen Anne came to the throne. #twitterstorians
Fanny Burney, lady of letters and quintessential Georgian, died #onthisday in 1840. #twitterstorians
The mistletoe, or, #Christmas gambols design'd by Edwd. Penny #twitterstorians #art
The tomb of Jean Jacques Rousseau at Ermenonville, Hubert Robert. #twitterstorians #art
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine was born #onthisday in 1712. #twitterstorians
Dante's Hell XII by William Blake who was born #onthisday in 1757! #twitterstorians
#Onthisday 1703, Eddystone Lighthouse was washed away, taking crew and engineer! https://t.co/XxmYgMEo4l #twitterstorians #sundayblogshare
Laurence Sterne, a personal favourite and author of the fabulous Tristram Shandy, was born #onthisday in 1713. #twitterstorians
George II died #onthisday in 1760. Painted by Wootton #twitterstorians #royal #art
The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West who was born #onthisday in 1738. #twitterstorians #art
Copley, Portrait of Colonel Fitch and his Sisters #twitterstorians #art
Boney the Bogeyman: How #Napoleon frightened children https://t.co/4x28CFIWCL #19thC #twitterstorians
An Unsuccessful Reformer: William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau. https://t.co/TpObJXeffN #twitterstorians #royal
Boney and his new wife quarrel about nothing by Thomas Rowlandson. #art #twitterstorians
27/8 1816 Adm. Exmouth's British-Dutch fleet bombarded Algiers to stop slave-trade. #twitterstorians #OnThisDay
The Gravenor Family by Thomas Gainsborough. #twitterstorians #art
From Scotland, a tale of fairy children & a red worm...
https://t.co/zgTvifYmpK #folklorethursday #twitterstorians
A dragon illustration in a 1460 edition of the Medieval Liber Floridus #folklorethursday #art #twitterstorians