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1901
Dorothy Dehner was in
"In our world of unprecedented & supreme scientific we are bound to create that anticipates this as well as reacts to it."

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2019-12-23

In the true spirit of Christmas, 23 December 1778 Col. JOHN LAURENS and Gen. CHARLES LEE fight a duel outside Philadelphia. Lee is wounded. For Hamilton's account of the duel see: https://t.co/vLJfCGBhmH

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2019-12-23

This black and white press photograph shows HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, being driven to Sandringham House, Norfolk for Christmas in 1952

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2019-12-23

Born Jean Michel Bisquiat gritty street-smart successfully transcended "downtown" origins to blaze across international art gallery circuit emerging as 1 of most celebrated & most commercial American "naif" painters of movement …

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2019-12-22

1755 John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) married Margaret Georgiana Poyntz.
Their 1st child, Georgiana, would go on to become one of the most important political characters of the period as duchess of Devonshire
https://t.co/cZ5wIWtH1V

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2019-12-20

Emily Brontë died in 1848. Her masterpiece remains a uniquely powerful novel - the Folio edition features these stunning illustrations by , which capture the swirling moorland air that blows through the book. https://t.co/VOrquDyCvv

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2019-12-20

classic "A Christmas Carol" was first published 1843, two years after Dickens joined as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition of a much-loved classic:

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2019-12-19

Published in 1843, the most wonderful ghost story of Christmas - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.


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2019-12-19

1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The rest as they say is history.

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2019-12-19

Born Fitz Hugh Lane American & of Luminism style with its use of pervasive light & haccentuated perception of reality carefully controlled by design combining distinctive sweep of sky + maritime themes elevated perspective & attention to detail

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2019-12-19

in 2002, “the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” was released. It was the second film in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s high fantasy novels.

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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

Born genius Russian & credited as pioneering Taught at Bauhaus school of art 1922 to 1933 when Nazis closed it Expressed the communion between artist & viewer as being available to both the senses & the mind (synesthesia)

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2019-12-16

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://t.co/s1Zj5ATcz9

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2019-12-16

1467 Battle of Baia fought between the principality of Moldavia led by Stephen the Great and Hungary led by Matthias Corvinus ends with a decisive victory for the Moldavians, despite being heavily outnumbered.

Image from medieval Chronica Hungarorum

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2019-12-15


“Fear is the relinquishment of We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) in

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2019-12-14

13 December 1643 in a surprise attack, Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian forces stormed Alton in Hampshire. The Royalist defenders conducted a last stand in the Church of St Lawrence, which still has scars of the fighting today.

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2019-12-13