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Currently battling some of the challenges of phonetic spellings & impenetrable nicknames. Lady Bristol referred to Lord Bathurst as Batters which is clear enough but the duke of Richmond had a friend known only as Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha which is a tougher nut to crack

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2019-01-24

"L'Escarpolette" ('The Swing') by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) painted from 1767-1768. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era.

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2019-01-04

An armchair from circa 1750-1760; carved and gilded beech, covered in blue damask. 👌

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2019-01-03

This atmospheric 18thc watercolour shows the Seven Churches at Glendalough in Wicklow, Ireland, with worshipers processing by the light of torches for Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. (What's going on on the right?) https://t.co/Ooye724KOL

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2018-12-24

William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister 1783

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2018-12-19

New blog post on All Things Georgian, '18th-century retail therapy' https://t.co/SUc5l0MfSu

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2018-12-11

From the blog archives of All Things Georgian, '18th Century Female Bruisers' https://t.co/3h3zmQQYgt

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2018-12-02

For today's
The Vehicle of the Soul: Motion and Emotion in Vehicular It-Narratives
by Sara Landreth
https://t.co/TlVzXiZLS8
ECF Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2013

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2018-11-17