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Text + images work together in figural poems from a c. 1170 copy of De laudibus sanctae crucis by Hrabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz (died 856)
Explore the whole manuscript: https://t.co/7S48FbryYE

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2018-02-04

Very cold weather in Antwerp but skating is good & we've got a fire going on the bank for non-skaters. By Lucas van Valckenborch, d. OTD 1597.

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2018-02-03

In 1900 Maucci Brothers, a Spanish publisher, commissioned Posada to illustrate a series of pamphlets for children on the history of Mexico -Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano, here are some of my favourite ones! Viva Posada! Feb 2, 1852, Aguascalientes, Mexico

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2018-02-03

in 1887, Harvey Wilcox registers Hollywood with the LA Country recorder's office. He envisioned a utopian community for devout Christians, free of vices such as alcohol. Ahem.

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2018-02-01

d. Edward Lear (1812-1888), writer, artist & musician. “There was a Young Lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway; When the door squeezed her flat, she exclaimed "What of that?" This courageous Young Lady of Norway.”

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2018-01-30

Scottish landscape painter John MacWhirter died 1911. He was greatly inspired by the Alps and Scotland's mountain landscapes.

Ossian's Grave
Mist on the Mountains
Before a Storm
June in the Austrian Tyrol

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2018-01-28

b. Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll. Most famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

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2018-01-28

Born 1621, Thomas Willis, considered the father of neurology. He was the first person to use that word in print and greatly expanded contemporary understanding of the nervous system

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2018-01-27

1568 Lady Katherine Grey, the wife of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford died aged 27. Katherine, sister of Lady Jane Grey, was, according to Henry VIII's will, heir to Elizabeth’s throne. She'd been under arrest for 7 years for marrying without consent https://t.co/AIXskQbXa0

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2018-01-26

Go For Gold Week: in 1924, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France. PLM poster by Roger Soubie.

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2018-01-25

"The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands forever I love." Painting 'Salmon Spearing - Loch Katrine' by George Vincent

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2018-01-25

Born in 1806, Scottish painter Daniel Maclise, renowned for his romanticised & often sentimental historical genre paintings.

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2018-01-25

Édouard Manet was born 1832. Here are his illustrations from Stéphane Mallarmé’s French translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, or Le Corbeau (1875).

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2018-01-23

Born 1788 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS, known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. Flamboyant and notorious, Byron was both celebrated and castigated during his life for his excesses

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2018-01-22

il Mago: Legend Federico Fellini 1920–a cinema that wove both the baroque + rustic cores of Italy’s soul… Portrait by Piero Roccosalvo

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2018-01-20

1934: Tom Baker, the fourth and (it says here) best Doctor Who, was born in Liverpool.

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2018-01-20

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe. Gustave Dore illustrations from the 1884 Elephant Folio edition here: https://t.co/hcUNrVcouq

[Yes, I really bought that]

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2018-01-20

Born in Aix-en-Provence, French Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cezanne, often referred to as the father of modern art

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2018-01-19

"Fanatics...pestilent killjoys...alien mercenaries"

1920: Prohibition started in USA. Concerned that it might spread to UK, the British brewing industry vigorously attacked the policy (with a side-order of anti-Americanism)

(More @ https://t.co/jxLiKYCrxn)

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2018-01-17