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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712. We have a large collection of related material, from the libraries of Ralph Leigh & Robert Wokler, including this work by Rousseau inscribed by him to d'Alambert, co-editor of the Encyclopédie with Diderot https://t.co/1uUXstcuOH

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2018-06-28

Born in 1703, John Wesley, who founded the Methodist movement with just four members of the 'holy club' in Oxford, growing it to 132,000 members in Britain & America by the time of his death. It's estimated he rode 250,000 miles on his horse to spread the Methodist gospel.

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2018-06-28

Ornithologist John Latham's (born 1740) "General Synopsis of Birds" was translated into German by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a pioneer in German ornithology. Explore "Allgemeine Uebersicht der Vögel" ([1792]-1812) in via : https://t.co/bzLTLFyle4

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2018-06-28

Today marks the 112th birthday of Lord Wolfenden, former Vice-Chancellor & most famous for releasing the 1957 Wolfenden Report, which recommended decriminalising homosexuality. You can find out more about here: https://t.co/V6AnjVrzEK

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2018-06-26

1876, The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of US forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. Image: C M Russell in Scribner's Magazine, February 1905

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2018-06-25

in 1941, Manuel Pérez Clemente, better known as the artist Sanjulián, was born in Barcelona, Spain. He drew and/or painted many figures, inlcuding and and

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2018-06-25

in 1813, Laura Secord learned of a planned U.S. attack that convinced her to travel more than 30 kilometres to warn British, Canadian and First Nation forces fighting during the War of 1812. https://t.co/WDgvDSo9Nx

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2018-06-22

in 1854, during the Crimean War, Charles Davis Lucas becomes the 1st person to win the when he removes a burning shell from HMS Hecla during bombardment of Russian fortress, Bomarsund on the Baltic coast

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2018-06-21

in 1914, completed his fourth Mars novel, THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (originally titled CARTHORIS for its protagonist, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris). The first edition featured St. John interior art, including a frontispiece image from a scene in Chapter 10.

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2018-06-21

Happy 200th Birthday Eugenius Birch! Born 1818. Engineer and designer of 14 pleasure including West, and North, all pictured here

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2018-06-20

James VI of was born 1566. See portraits of him and his family on John Speed's map of Scotland, 1610. https://t.co/qEx2GVSOQR

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2018-06-19

Call to Arms by David Wright in The Sketch 1941 showing a model undressing. David Wright's 'Lovelies' were very popular and adorned practically every mess, bunker, dormitory or club room in the country during WW2. ©Estate of David Wright/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

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2018-06-18

Giovanni Paolo Panini was born in 1691. Panini painted scenes of real and imagined structures that included small reproductions of famous statues, like these 2 on view in Gallery 17, but he was also a designer of stage sets, fireworks, and other festival apparatuses.

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2018-06-18

Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell was born 1792. An explorer, surveyor, road-builder and mapmaker, Mitchell looms large in Australian colonial history. Read the story of his extraordinary life and work revealed through our collections here: https://t.co/uSHsQkzQuX

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2018-06-15

in 1381 rioters burned down the Savoy Palace, grand home of John of Gaunt, during the Peasants' Revolt, seen here in a somewhat sanitised Victorian depiction. The present Savoy Theatre and Savoy Hotel were named in its memory.

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2018-06-13

12 June 1549: Eight year-old Lady Jane Seymour writes to theologians Martin Buber & Paul Fagius thanking them for the gift of books they'd sent. In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius would be exhumed in & respectively burnt for heresy (GAP/BM/SJC)

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2018-06-13

Died in 1965, Cyril Kenneth Bird, better known by his pseudonym Fougasse. Well known for his work in Punch & his WWII 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' posters also produced brilliant cartoons for magazines in our archive. This one, 'Oh, but I insist' published in The Sketch,1936

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2018-06-12

German painter Ferdinand Knab was born 1834. The first painting, titled The Castle Gate (Das Schloss Portal), inspired some rather strange writing last year.

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2018-06-12

James Francis Edward Stuart, the legitimate Catholic heir to the Stuart throne, was born 10 June 1688 to Mary of Modena & James VII/II in St. James's Palace. A birth that ignited a revolution...

🎨 Gennari/Belle; 🏛️ NPG/Bridgeman.

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2018-06-09

Australian illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was born 1888. Her illustrations of witches are favorites that I turn to often. The first illustration below is from Elves & Fairies (1916).

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