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A double ridge helmet dated around 6thC BC, excavated from a burial in Austria. This Hallstatt type helmet was worn mainly by Celts and Etruscans and had two small hooks front and back to hold a crest between the ridges. Now in the natural history museum, Vienna.

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2020-02-29

Spotted some crocuses in the wild so so here’s some lovely illustrations! Saffron (from crocus sativus) historically used to treat ailments such as gout & asthma, and believed to be an aphrodisiac. This 19thc medical text also claims it brings “ecstatic drunkenness”

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2020-02-24

Found this 19thC tile while walking near Long Melford. Medieval architecture appealed to the Victorians who longed for pre-industrial England. Dogs in the Middle Ages herded, hunted & protected. A 9thC prayer says: 'God preserve us from the Northmen & their terrible dogs.'

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2020-02-20

19thc immediacy. Against the light background, the brilliancy of van Dyck's head studies is even more apparent.

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2020-02-19

'The Moral of Flowers: An Illustrated Victorian Encyclopedia of Poetic Lessons from the Garden'
https://t.co/RjnuxG92aT

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2020-02-17

The Lovers (mid 20thc) by Remedios Varo, Catalan-Mexican para-surrealist painter and anarchist

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2020-02-14

Was portrayal of in his writings a reflection of 19thC attitudes to ageing or was he gerontophobic? I am writing on this subject.

Views welcome





& anyone with a view.
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2020-02-04

Stories About the French Revolution by Those Who Lived It: Stories about the French Revolution frequently begin with the fall of the Bastille that happened on 14 July 1789 when revolutionaries stormed ... https://t.co/LQ1nIuZzKr

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2020-01-26



Happy Chinese new year!! 新年快樂!!
Gender swap of !!
Someone asked me what will look like in 18thC, so I made these! XD

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2020-01-25

Stories About the French Revolution by Those Who Lived It: Stories about the frequently begin with the fall of the Bastille that happened on 14 July 1789 when revolutionaries stormed ... https://t.co/uxnVlWebBo

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2020-01-20

20 Jan: The feast of St. Sebastian a 3rdC saint, martyred by arrows (a selection from the many images, including a 16thC plate BM)

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2020-01-20

16Jan1749 The Bottle Conjuror was supposed to appear on stage at the New Theater in Haymarket and when he didn't a riot ensued. Learn more: https://t.co/0Oe5q5AYpK

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2020-01-16

we have some dope pot leaf keychains + prints available! we also have 1 sample size THC body roller left 🥰🤍

https://t.co/fFXPsV8vxZ

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2020-01-07

28 Dec 1636: Wenceslaus Hollar arrives in beginning a flourishing career, determining quite a bit of our visual vocabulary of 17thC and (BM/Folger) Some of his female figures here, along with him

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2019-12-28

A Prince Sitting on a Terrace
Ardeshir Album
Mughal, 17thC

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2019-12-15

Fun rebranding for the unique who make cannabis extracts & THC crystals would you believe 🍁

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2019-12-12

Stylish gentleman: Esp. like the six-pointed stars repeated on the buttons of both waistcoat & coat - plus extra love for that carnelian pinkie ring. "Portrait of an English Architect" unsigned, 18thc English School

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2019-12-01

One of my fav old blogs. The wildly fanciful "Puritian maidens" painted in the 19thc by George Henry Boughton - and they still turn up around Thanksgiving as examples of 17thc Massachusetts "Pilgrims." https://t.co/6iErITxPZr

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2019-11-29