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It's season! Savor these sweet perpetually ripening in our collection. Jane Elizabeth Giraud painted this in her manuscript "The Fête of the Page through the whole volume: https://t.co/GFCcNMrv23.

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2019-07-24

Our summer exhibition Masters of the Golden Age: Gainsborough, Constable, Turner and Lawrence, is open- it showcases a significant private collection of 18th and early-19thc British art (Image:Constable's stormy 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows,' 1830s ©Private Collection)

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2019-06-25

in 1813, Laura Secord learned of a planned U.S. attack, convincing her to travel more than 30 kilometres to warn British, Canadian and First Nation forces fighting during the War of 1812.

https://t.co/LAnKjPMndq

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2019-06-21

Sagittarius from al-Sufi's Catalog of the Fixed Stars (19thC copy from either Afghanistan or Uzbekistan), part of Supplément persan 2021 https://t.co/oO3LLsmO6i

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2019-06-17

A small but potent example of just how were Late 18thc (now faded) printed reused w/early 19thc via Love the classical-themed with bold plaid palette. Fr.

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2019-06-12

A huge collection of 19thC life hacks on cigarette cards
(draw circles, remove splinters etc)

https://t.co/aWP53GRzTY

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2019-06-12

"Red Rocks Near Pont Aven" is a painting by Irish artist Roderic O'Conor, who spent much of his later career in Paris. He was a friend of Paul Gauguin and his work with contrasting colours is also influenced by Vincent Van Gogh.

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2019-06-09

Brent Hill, South Brent
Lots going on on this little hill.
Early

artefacts & enclosures
chapel & lynchets (NE)
~16thC beacon
~19thC 19thC & 20thC quarries.

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2019-05-29

Puce: a colour favored by Marie Antoinette & popular in the late 18thc/ early 19thc. Puce is French for flea; the colour is described as resembling congealed blood or a flea after it’s been crushed on white linen— a familiar shade in its heyday.

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2019-05-24

Some years ago I was so fascinated (and still I am!) by the about in the that I made my own.
In my head.
Destination:

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2019-05-03

Wedding season is coming up - a throwback to the 18thc. w/Rebecca Tailer (silk design by 1747 worn in 19thc alters. but condition is excellent ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦⁩

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2019-04-20

Snake Tales from 19th-Century America (with a connection). New on the blog https://t.co/8eJX2qS9cE

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2019-04-05

From our Archive: Eliza Cubitt discusses gossip in two late-Victorian narratives—by Arthur Morrison and W. Somerset Maugham—a period where oral gossip was defined as negative, female, and played a critical role in regulating behaviour https://t.co/LUdLAq3U6T

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2019-04-02