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The very moment George IV was crowned in Abbey 1821.

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2022-07-19

The triumph of Germanicus, a very popular and prominent Roman general. It included a long procession of captives including Thusnelda, the wife of his rival Arminius and her three-year-old son. AD 17.

by Karl von Piloty, 1873.

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2022-07-12

Born 1641 Meinhard Schomberg, 3rd & last duke of Schomberg.
Significant military figure under William III - he survived into George I's reign & at his death was honoured with interment in the Henry VII chapel at .

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2022-06-30

The same person?
Anne, countess of Northampton by Thomas Hudson & Lady Northampton, attributed to Jean-Etienne Liotard...
Not impossible but some striking differences.

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2022-06-28

Military life. Wounded cuirassier leaving the field of battle.

by Théodore Géricault, 1814.

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2022-06-26

The last of the Wilkites was said to have been one of Wilkes's old servants called Guest, who survived to 1834.
On occasion he used to don an old mourning coat Wilkes had bequeathed him & tramp the streets of Aylesbury crying out "Wilkes and Liberty"

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2022-06-25

education. Philosophy and the seven liberal arts, 12th century.

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2022-06-22

How can a single source shape a thesis? Current / Centenary PhD Fellow, Dan Armstrong, on researching Anglo-Papal relations and the importance of a letter sent in 1122: https://t.co/Ukxf52t0pR

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2022-06-20

Interesting how many peers pleaded concerns of a smallpox outbreak to avoid turning out for the trials of the Jacobite lords captured during the 45 rebellion.
We'll be blogging about this early next month. Stay tuned!

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2022-06-16

In Enlightened France, women acted as cultural mediators of physiocratic political economy, read more in Notes and Records https://t.co/3l58veV4zF

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2022-06-10

1794 the went to the opera to hear the famous Italian soprano Brigida Giorgi Banti perform in two pieces - one serious & one comic.
At the end, Banti sang God Save the King 'as if she were a native of England'

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2022-06-03

the Second Battle of Ypres. German barrage fire of Allied trenches, 1915.

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2022-05-31

Relief with the figure of a king, most likely a depiction of Zvonimir, Croatian king from the 11th century.

Right: The Oath of Zvonimir, Vatican fresco, 1611.


CC BY-SA 3.0, https://t.co/sP5pLIsSLj

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2022-05-30

Leisure time, late 19th/ early 20th century.

Artworks by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (top left), Carl Spitzweg.

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2022-05-29