New on All Things Georgian, by guest author, Kimberley Reeman 'The Secret Woman: The Fierce, Lonely Life of Dr James Barry' - https://t.co/psjM4TfQdo

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Harriet Taylor Mill, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights, died in 1858.

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Naturalist Edward Donovan published his 'Natural History of British Birds' 1794-1819. His short-lived London Museum & Institute of Natural History closed in 1817 and his collection auctioned. These illustrations are lovely Georgian illustrations of nests & eggs

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With help from We're restoring the parks and gardens to their Georgian glory!
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This weekend is your last chance to see Elizabeth Dowle's botanical illustrations of pears and apples

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Sarah Murden on Twitter : "New on All Things Georgian, 'The Life of an Officer on Campaign - Guest post by Caroline Miley' https://t.co/jqc0cdbF4R https://t.co/mKRYL0SG97" / via

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The most glamorous pretend-witches in Georgian England: "The Three Witches from Macbeth (Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour Damer)" by Daniel Gardner, 1775 tgallery

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Givi Siproshvili,contemporary Georgian painter

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New on All Things Georgian, 'The Life of an Officer on Campaign - Guest post by Caroline Miley' https://t.co/gNMDwPu6za

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Turner’s evocative work, The Battle of Trafalgar, for This was Turner’s only work by royal command and he spent nearly two weeks at St James’s making unpaid edits to suit the Admiralty. He considered that those edits ruined the painting.

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Charles Howard, The 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815) Having once tripped into his fountain whilst drunk, and nearly drowned. He decided the best means of avoiding such a travesty was to have the offending fountain filled in. Truly a man of sound reasoning. 🤣

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All are welcome to our final free event of the year on 14th October. Award winning landscape designer & author Dr Todd Longstaffe-Gowan will give a talk on Georgian urban landscapes. With Lit & Phil Society. Hosted near New Walk at the lovely Hansom Hall.

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A new reporting period & a new list of Georgian Lords to start drafting.
First out of the gate is Charles Fitzroy, duke of Southampton & Cleveland, son of Charles II & Barbara Villiers.
Even his mother thought him 'a very kockish idle boy'

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The end of another reporting period, so totting up the new articles produced for the Georgian Lords: they include 'the Bug' duke of Kent; Viscount Cobham, creator of Stowe; Sir William Dawes, archbishop of York & the last of his line: Meinhard 3rd, duke of Schomberg

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Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontës, died in 1821. Maria was just 28 when she died.

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The Archipelago - Georgian Bay 8x36” oil

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From the All Things Georgian archives, 'Eighteenth-century bathing machines' https://t.co/SJFuXOoyRG

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What a fantastic palette of cool colours in this beautiful by Georgiana CHU https://t.co/39YtKOkXf3 'Lovely Memories'

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Born 1756 in James Gillray, pre-eminent caricaturist of the period

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RT : From the All Things Georgian archives, 'The Rule of Thumb' https://t.co/GHxHez0eEK

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