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Hello My name is Shabnam and I will be writing my dissertation on The British Occupation of Iran during the Second World War: the soldiers and community reactions!

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2019-03-04

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

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2019-02-19



In the latest contribution to the project, discusses war, imperialism & revolution as global processes:

'The First World War and the Irish Revolution in Dublin - linked Great Wars'.

https://t.co/GQYOzroc7t

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2019-02-07

William Pitt the Younger died 23 Jan 1806, aged 46, victim of stress and alcoholism. His last words were (possibly): 'Oh my country; how I leave my country.' That thing about Bellamy's veal pies, I'm afraid, is total fiction: https://t.co/3Bbyh7yAvg

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2019-01-23

We're excited to announce a fellowship opportunity for researchers at Windsor Castle, as we partner with to enable researchers to get to the archives. Applications open February 1 and close April 1.
https://t.co/Z02XWLXKiE

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2019-01-16

Out now: 'Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces and Thresholds' - a new collection of 15 essays from the IHR. Available and print https://t.co/eX0yIMFfSi

From womb to tomb, how are we defined and confined by gender and space?

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2019-01-07

19 1717 Bishop Gibson wishes Bishop Nicolson "as cheerful a as can be expected amidst the daily alarms you will receive of prohibiting minced pies and such other ungodly Diet"

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2018-12-21

Zegt het voort en ik zoeken per 1 april 2019 2 promovendi voor het NWO VC project Chronicling novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands 1500-1850 . Meer weten? Zie https://t.co/80xc7ORepr

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2018-12-11

Day 11
A & Sami family, from a 1674 English translation of 'The history of Lapland', by Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus. Did you know the Sami are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe?

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2018-12-11

This Ladies' College photograph is dated 1895 and depicts the porters, pages and clerk of works.

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2018-12-04

Why in the Age of Enlightenment, a time of “sober rationalism”, did ghost stories flourish in Scotland? Martha McGill discusses this apparent contradiction and the reasons behind it in our latest blog post: https://t.co/D6ssRfPnoS

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2018-10-26

in 1789, the women of Paris marched on Versailles to confront Louis XVI. It was a turning point in the French Revolution.

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2018-10-06

My guest blog for : '“The Cause of Decency against Indecency”: Lady Chatham and the 1788 Westminster election'. https://t.co/8h6HmpNj2Y

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2018-09-06

Caricaturist James Gillray born in London 1756, famous for his etched political & social satires,

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2018-08-13

°Lhianne

Enthralled with the spirit realm

Always in tune to auras & energy, knowing they can't be entombed

The ghosts that I called are revealed in due time

Personalities can't change, you will recognize their mind

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2018-08-01

New podcast: discusses 'Moriscos, Enslaved Children, and Litigating for Liberty in sixteenth-century with https://t.co/eYXnQlgUJp

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2018-06-26

"She could tell...at any distance how the affairs of the world went..."

"She is regarded as one of the prophetesses by several doctors of the Roman Church..."

On the "sibyl" of Córdoba: https://t.co/HfI5TgwaQW

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2018-05-15

Fynes Moryson was of the opinion on Irish soldiers, that “Men of more active bodies, more able to suffer cold, heat, hunger, thirst and whose minds are more void of fear, can hardly be found".

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2018-05-13

Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins, were born in 1811.

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2018-05-11

"Meeting between and Francis II of Austria after the Battle of Austerlitz" by Jean-Antoine Gros. I rather like this collision between traditional pastoral scene and battle art.

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2018-05-02