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I want besides a Bulldog – a terrier – and two Newfoundland dogs –

— Lord Byron, May 25 1819.

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2019-05-26

Peterloo 1819-2019
Mon 24th June, 1 - 2pm
An illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre with Robert Poole; Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme
Free to Book: wigan.library.gov.uk or 01942 827621

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2019-05-17

EXHIBITION LAUNCH: Thur 23 may, 6-8pm. Join us for the launch of 'Misshaping Peterloo', a collection created by illustrator & ceramicist Alex Sickling, inspired by Everyone welcome! FREE

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2019-05-14

"Apple Blossoms and Hummingbird" by Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), dated 1875, sold at for $68,750. The 12" x 14¾" oil on board had sold in 1994 for $36,800

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2019-05-09

New on All Things William Hutchinson's 'unrivalled piece of horsemanship', riding from to in less than 3 hours 6 May 1819.
https://t.co/gX40GPVGVk

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2019-05-06

Peterloo 1819-2019
Mon 24th June, 1 - 2pm
An illustrated lecture on the Peterloo massacre with Robert Poole; Author, Professor of History at UCLAN and Consultant Historian for the Peterloo 2019 programme
Free to Book: wigan.library.gov.uk or 01942 827621

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2019-05-04

Plum (Prunier de Sainte–Catherine) from Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l’on cultive en France en pleine terre (1801–1819) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Original from the New York Public Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Download this image: https://t.co/ReRSyXnXSq

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2019-04-30

Malayan tapirs were first described to Western science by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1819 - seven years after Georges Cuvier discounted the likelihood of “discovering new species of the larger quadrupeds” - and Baird's tapirs weren't described until 1865.

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2019-04-26

3/3 however, by 1819 a new Easter Monday tradition appeared, and went on to replace the Epping Hunt - namely cycling from the Eagle Inn at - which continued right up to the 1970s https://t.co/ATXbNZiEal

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2019-04-23

You sometimes tell me that I have been your first real love — and I assure you that you shall be my last Passion.

— Lord Byron, April 22 1819.

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2019-04-23

Registration open & programme up for "Queen Victoria's Contemporaries: on Friday 17th May.
Tour hidden gems of Glasgow's collections; close & personal object-handling; talks from

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2019-04-17

Sydenham Teast Edwards(1768-1819) born in illustrator,trained by William Curtis and made most of the illustrations for 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' (world's longest-running bot mag) from 1787-1815. has many of his original watercolours for mag

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2019-04-17

Mummers go door-to-door in costume; calling on their friends and neighbours. The earliest record of Mummering in Newfoundland dates back to 1819. https://t.co/rSgUN5lRo4 Etchings by Canadian artist David Blackwood.

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2019-03-28

Moonlight (1819) by Washington Allston (USA, 1779-1843). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

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2019-03-25

John Rennie's Southwark Bridge opened 1819. Originally called Queen Street bridge, the centre span was said to be the longest cast iron span ever built, at 240ft (73m). It was replaced in 1921 as it was too narrow to cope with the growing traffic.

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2019-03-25

Edwin Hayes (1819-1904) Dutch Boat off Broadstairs (1868). Hayes was one of the great marine painters of his day and lived his youth in Dublin, where his father was a hotelier. Painted boats and ships on the high seas off the coasts of Ireland, England, Belgium, Spain and Italy.

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2019-03-20

Paintings ...

The paintings in this series are by Gustave Courbet (1819-77)

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2019-03-19

Dreams (1857-58) by John Anster Fitzgerald (England, 1819–1906). The Artist's Dream, The Nightmare, The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (1 & 2).

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2019-03-16