Fouquier-Tinville: Purveyor to the Guillotine - Fouquier-Tinville was born Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville and became a French public prosecutor who, because of his zeal during ... https://t.co/JJM3CZBA9T

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Lovely 20thC oil on canvas of a west country coastal scene. Unsigned. Carved frame. 35.5 x 52.5 cm, frame 45 x 62 cm

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Fouquier-Tinville: Purveyor to the Guillotine - Fouquier-Tinville was born Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville and became a French public prosecutor who, because of his zeal during ... https://t.co/36o6UOTQbp

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Lords & ladies, Arum maculatum, cuckoo pint & cuckoo’s penis to name a few. The tubers of this plant created a starch which in the 16thC was used to create stiff ruffs. Attached Cicely Mary Barker’s fairy pole dancing 😮🧚‍♀️ little minx!

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Roman goddess of Agriculture, Ceres, preside over cupids on the leaf of bejewelled 18thC fan from our collections; cosies up to Neptune (?) in 16thC print from & crowns Linnaeus in 19thC print from .

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Different Cannabis Concentrates—Diamonds, Distillate, Shatter, Wax, Budder, Crumble, Sugar, Rosin, Kief, Hash, and THC cartridge oil via @ https://t.co/vpieRqQExe https://t.co/xLq6gYp5P9

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“So you are the Younker,” said the Prince (meaning the youngster who is to inherit the family honours). “Fine boy! Any tips for Epsom next week?”

“No, sir, but I have a mare called Phoebe who’s a fine goer!”
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more accurate draw of myself, thc to this website called smile paint

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Building protection. Challenges of folkloric evidence. I've researched the tradition of houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) growing on roofs as lightning/fire protection. Loads of folklore about, but cannot find any evidence that people actively planted it for this purpose in 19thC.

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Found this at Allonby Beach yesterday Wormwood, artemisia absinthium.Used in the 16thC to counteract poison from hemlock,toadstools & sea dragon bites! More famously it contains absinthol which was used in French absinthe 🐉🍸

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When history collides with 2020! Here are Lizzie Tuckett, keen mountaineer, and her family in the in and to protect their complexions as they climbed. A bit spooky but I LOVE them! Courtesy of Frenchay Village Museum

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The Pater Familias, study for a print; an interior with the father carefully feeding his baby, watched by his wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1648.

A side of 17thC masculinity you don't often see depicted.

(British Museum)

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Illustration of the retrograde motion of planets, in a 16thC Persian copy of al-Qazwini's ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt, "The marvels of creation and the oddities of existence"
https://t.co/SFOuDRn2l4

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It was such a TREAT to tour with curator ! Probing & provocative, the exhibition investigates how engaged in the discourse & lived reality of politics, economics, social dynamics, race & gender during the

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Winston Churchill’s paintings may not stand among the great artworks of the 20thC but they tell us a lot about why he was such a memorable leader. His political genius lay in the creativity that the paintings quietly embody. His painting was one outlet for a genuine artistic side

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The Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey’s Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World’s First Encyclopedia of Trees
https://t.co/cY1K2XfxNy

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Here’s my first one, Black Shuck, the devil dog of the Norfolk coast, and the Green Children of Woolpit, both local folklore from the east of England.
The green children were pretty wild too: turned up randomly in the village in the 12thC and only ate beans.

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