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'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.' Today's is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949. Our edition of the dystopian classic is illustrated by . https://t.co/G0f4sM3IQe

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2018-06-09

"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis in 1931, at the age of just 30. See more of her magical illustrations here: https://t.co/EZPMQrm62Z

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2018-06-08

Charles Rennie Mackintosh ~ born 1868

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2018-06-07

Glasgow-born Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in 1868🎂🎉 . Although best known as an architect and designer, Mackintosh also produced a large number of drawings and watercolours, including this, The Road Through the Rocks, Port Vendres: https://t.co/6pFWa1Bv7h

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2018-06-07

George III born in 1738.Some of George III-related special collection items include his wife's signature from 1816. The work is decorated with Strelitzia (#birdofparadise), a genus named after Queen Charlotte's birthplace, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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2018-06-04

Born in 1879, Mabel Lucie Attwell, popular and prolific artist best-known and well-loved for her illustrations of chubby-cheeked children and fairyland

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2018-06-04

Helen Stratton died 1961. These illustrations are from The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale, by Marie of Romania.

Beasts of Prey
The Stag
The Frozen Lake
The Tombs

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2018-06-04

in 1879, Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France, is ambushed and killed by Zulus while serving with the British. His needless death occurred when the impetuous prince took command of a scouting party without official permission. His body suffered 18 assegai wounds.

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2018-06-01

Dutch artist Cornelis Saftleven may have died 1681.

Witch's Tavern
Gates of Hell
Temptation of St. Anthony (detail)
College of Animals

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2018-06-01

Some images of the illustrious Joan of Arc, who was martyred in 1431.

"Jehanne was gentle in the roughest struggle, good amongst the bad, pacific in war itself; she bore into war...the spirit of God." - Jules Michelet

Art by: T.A. Dean, G. Pownall, and H. Piffard.

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2018-05-30

Born in 1900, artist Rudolph Belarski painted "Argosy Weekly" pulp covers for three of most famous series: and
January 8, 1938: "Carson of Venus"
March 19, 1938: "The Red Star of Tarzan"
January 7, 1939: "Synthetic Men of Mars"

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2018-05-28

27 May 1541: Bl. Margaret Pole Countess Salisbury executed - her beheading was badly botched at Tower (NPG - possible portrait) Cardinal Reginald's mum

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2018-05-28

26 May 1650: Oliver Cromwell leaves Co. for ( ) there he goes...

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2018-05-26

in 1660, Britain is about to get a whole lot merrier when King Charles II arrives in Dover to claim the throne. Coincidentally, he gets married too a year later, to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza

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2018-05-26

Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707. Have you seen our Linnean Correspondence collection? https://t.co/hVGANf40XU We have digitised letters sent & received by the great man himself. To also celebrate we have found this letter sent to him by Thomas Pennant.

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2018-05-23

Left wing of a blue roller, studied in 1512 by the great Albrecht Dürer. You would not believe that watercolor & gouache could capture this much detail! Dürer was born OTD in 1471.

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2018-05-22

21.5.1358: In Compiègne beginnt der genannte Bauernaufstand im Nordosten Frankreichs https://t.co/Pv7t4ZhGYP

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2018-05-21

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Starring Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald & Michael Ironside
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Released 20 May 1983

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2018-05-21

May 20, 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.

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2018-05-20