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2020-08-23

9 Fangtastic Facts about European & Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Corin Throsby & Ed Gamble to discuss development of vampire characters throughout C19th Gothic & pop culture today...

: https://t.co/JatHYwoOHZ

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2020-08-17

In C19th Ireland, youngsters deemed fairies or 'changelings' could be beaten, burnt, poisoned with foxgloves or drowned.

Bridget Cleary is the famous case. But there were other, less widely reported fairy assaults & deaths. A dark side of magical belief...

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2020-08-13

Female Prisoners at Newgate and Elizabeth Fry - There were many female prisoners at Newgate during the 1700 and 1800s. Part of the reason why is that the living standards for rural women ... https://t.co/gEB3j9TzLE

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2020-05-21

Masks in the 1800s for Safety and Health - Just like we are wearing masks today to prevent the spread of covid-19, in the 1800s people wore masks but they did not necessarily wear them to protect ... https://t.co/whJijbZ9yO

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2020-05-01

Our entry for is this super-sassy, mid-C19th print spoofing phrenology. It's called 'Toe-tology' & it features gossip-pativeness, flirtology & cheap-shoe-shop-itiveness!

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2020-04-28

Another beautiful from 'The & the Dazzling depictions of awe-inspiring mountain scenery, by American & European artists

https://t.co/yLwy0JxXpL

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2020-04-22

Patriot’s Disappearance and Theodosia Burr Alston - The Patriot’s disappearance in 1813 remains a that has never been solved. Socialite Theodosia Burr Alston, the daughter of Aaron Burr, ... https://t.co/lC0ky2IUZh

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2020-04-18

today, visited the and I got to wheel out some of my collection highlights - inc these fab late C19th & early C20th postcards, which speak to non-elite collecting practices & ephemeral visual culture 📮

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2020-03-16

Consuelo Vanderbilt: Marriage to the Duke of Marlborough -
Consuelo Vanderbilt was a member of the prominent American family, a family of Dutch origin who gained prominence during the Gilded Age ... https://t.co/8mJK5oDf4E

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2020-03-05

Cholera Ship Virginia in 1866: Liverpool to New York - What became known as the cholera ship Virginia set sail from Liverpool on 4 April 1866. At the time there were no cases of cholera ... https://t.co/qUBPX0ZhYj

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2020-03-01

The administrative innovations for the state organization of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (935-612BC), military hierarchy & political bureaucracy, were so successful that remained constant for the greatest part of the civilized world until almost C19th.

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2020-01-21

.Archibald Webb - C19th Oil on Canvas - “Off Northfleet” on the Kent Coast near 36x48 inches approx .. bid live at Cato Crane Auction on 15th January £700-£1,000 estimate

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2020-01-07

To make money from magic, you needed a good story. A striking bio, like the c19th Irish 'fairy doctors' and fortune-tellers who said they'd spent years in the subterranean worlds of the wee folk.

'They were all gentleman there' one magician claimed, in 1837.

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2019-10-17

The ingenious charts that explained the Cosmos to C19th schoolchildren : https://t.co/PhXzu8G8QV & see more zoomable scans from the 'Yaggy’s Geographical Study Kits' here : https://t.co/0TqkhWKIpz

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2019-08-11

Spent part of today exploring the fashion plates and periodicals in the collection. These illustrations are from the late C19th French publication La Mode Nationale

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2019-07-03

FAIRY FUNERALS. Sightings occur in recorded by Croker & Keightley in the C19th. claimed to have witnessed a burial in his own garden. Victorian artists John Anster Fitzgerald & Maxmillian Pirner invest fairy death scenes with fragile melancholy & wonder

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2019-06-01

Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.

‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.

‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.

‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.

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2019-05-23

Lovely little exhibition with loans from & . Beautiful illustrations of from C19th to modern day. On until 5th Jan 2019.

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2018-12-13

Two frescoes – the Assumption & scenes of the Martyrdom & removal of the body of St Christopher – which were suffering from damp, had been detached from the walls & taken to Venice in the late C19th. The other frescoes were completely destroyed in the bombing.

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2018-10-09