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To make money from magic, you needed a good story. A striking bio, like the c19th Irish 'fairy doctors' and fortune-tellers who said they'd spent years in the subterranean worlds of the wee folk.

'They were all gentleman there' one magician claimed, in 1837.

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2019-10-17

The ingenious charts that explained the Cosmos to C19th schoolchildren : https://t.co/PhXzu8G8QV & see more zoomable scans from the 'Yaggy’s Geographical Study Kits' here : https://t.co/0TqkhWKIpz

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2019-08-11

Looking forward to discussing in Oct. If your engages with check out the for the 2020 conference - Costume Drama: A History of Clothes for & - https://t.co/6TtlssH9mA

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2019-07-16

Spent part of today exploring the fashion plates and periodicals in the collection. These illustrations are from the late C19th French publication La Mode Nationale

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2019-07-03

FAIRY FUNERALS. Sightings occur in recorded by Croker & Keightley in the C19th. claimed to have witnessed a burial in his own garden. Victorian artists John Anster Fitzgerald & Maxmillian Pirner invest fairy death scenes with fragile melancholy & wonder

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2019-06-01

Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.

‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.

‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.

‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.

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2019-05-23

Did you know that ceramic and bisque dolls were popular in the C19th but later more robust and cheaper materials were preferred? From the 1950s plastic dominated doll and toy production.

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2019-03-17

that ceramic and bisque dolls were popular in the C19th but later more robust and cheaper materials were preferred? From the 1950s plastic dominated doll and toy production.

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2019-02-04

Lovely little exhibition with loans from & . Beautiful illustrations of from C19th to modern day. On until 5th Jan 2019.

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2018-12-13

Two frescoes – the Assumption & scenes of the Martyrdom & removal of the body of St Christopher – which were suffering from damp, had been detached from the walls & taken to Venice in the late C19th. The other frescoes were completely destroyed in the bombing.

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2018-10-09

For - Amanita Muscaria illustrations in a C19th medical botany text, noted as the "most active of vegetable poisons...abundant in the Highlands of Scotland". Also known for inducing strong psychedelic effects when consumed.

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2018-03-09

Dec19th, we went to I got the chance to play various exciting rides, I felt the strength getting stronger 2.5x.

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2017-12-20

A group of Company School paintings on Mica, India, C19th just sold for £2300. Est: £200-£300

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2017-11-22

Check out our Amazing Archives site & this C19th Map of https://t.co/i9ke47oSs4 Spot any differences from today?

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2017-05-24

It's tomorrow! An early warning from the C19th on tobacco’s harmful effects by Scottish surgeon-anatomist John Lizars

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2017-03-07

C19th patient at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital - 'deaf-mute, aged about 47, lame, dirty, savage. A hopeless case'

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2016-04-27

The snow may have gone but here's another snowy photo for you - 'An Effect of Snow' from our C19th Collection

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2016-01-14

Where Berries Are Blue by Opening Dec19th, 6:30-9:30 Presale: https://t.co/LisIzTvVHV Password: joy

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2015-12-19

Barney, Steve, Tegan, Wendy: new UK & Ireland storm names. Here's a C19th storm at Tynemouth Priory

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2015-10-20

unicorn & lion c19th wooden ships carvings terrific show finishes next Sun - go!

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2014-08-26