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Quick post before bed: a very very important character for my comic. :3c

Inari-okami, goddess of foxes, prosperity, and fertility! She's sort of designed after a Georgian Red Fox, which has mostly white fur with dark ears and splotches on the back and paws. :3

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2020-06-06

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was born in 1660. The hugely influential duchess was one of the most powerful women of her age and a close friend of Queen Anne.

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2020-06-05

Born in 1738: King of the United Kingdom (1738-1820)

Portrait by (1767-1851), ca. 1800-10

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2020-06-04

Born in 1738: King of the United Kingdom (1738-1820)

Portrait by (1738-1820), 1783

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2020-06-04

Born in 1738: King of the United Kingdom (1738-1820)

Portrait by (1738-1820), 1779

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2020-06-04

Born in 1738: King of the United Kingdom (1738-1820)

Portrait by (1739-1808), 1769

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2020-06-04

New on All Things Georgian, 'Nathaniel Bentley, better known as ‘ Dirty Dick’' https://t.co/EuWzo5gkGQ

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2020-06-03

“It’s called fashion. Look it up.” Fashionista Beau Brummell laces the gargantuan Prince Regent into his stays in “1812 or Regency à la Mode”, by William Heath. via The Met.

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2020-06-03

RT : Voting in parliamentary elections in England was neither democratic nor free from undue influence. By modern standards, the whole system could be labelled as corrupt and biased. https://t.co/xhYb4uKMoe

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2020-05-30

Nature is healing and flying penises are being spotted in the wild once more. German snuffbox, via Bonhams.

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2020-05-29

Super use of watercolour by Georgian Chu https://t.co/1C310ZFXjg 'Twelve Days After Mother's Day'.

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2020-05-28

"his choice of words was perfect, his voice beautiful, & his way of putting aside the question when he chose, & fascinating the minds of men, astounding."
Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, on Pitt the Younger born 1759

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2020-05-28

Born 1759: the Younger (1759-1806), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Ireland

Portrait by (1758-1810), copy of a original of 1804

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2020-05-28

Crowded dining room, table stacked with fine foods, busy with scurrying servants, air filled with debate, gossip & laughter...

Read our new blog for tasty insights into Georgian fine dining, inc ‘oisters’, jellies & our famed Cannon Hall pineapples: https://t.co/LGRVm5S7VP

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2020-05-27

"Midnight in Stalingrad. Everywhere, statues of the Georgian radiate avuncular menace across the moonlit streets."

EXILE in 3 days!

📅 27th may, 6PM BST
🔗 https://t.co/4piNACEK3t

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2020-05-25

Phoebe Hessel, "the Stepney Amazon", served in the British Army in disguise as a man. She was sent packing when her gender was revealed after she was sentenced to be lashed. She lived to the age of 108 and was granted a pension by the Regent for her service!

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2020-05-20

Giuseppe Bonito's Il Femminiello (1740/1760) is the only known c.18th depiction of an Italian femminiello, which translates as “little female-men". Femminielli were believed to bring good luck and were often asked to bless newborns. from Portland Art Museum.

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2020-05-20

Born 1744 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of George III of the < Two Mysterious Brides https://t.co/zK8HDsrZBM <

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2020-05-19

A savage satire on fashion from the - look at that nose! A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten, Philip Dawe, 1777, from the British Museum.

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2020-05-18