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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was a highly intelligent woman who was an advocate of small pox inoculation and introduced it to Britain in 1721. This portrait by Godfrey Kneller from our collection is on display at

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"The name Kellin comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It was a name for a person who fished codfish and was accordingly named after the fish. The surname Kellin is derived from the Old English word keling, which means young codfish."

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Join Julian Pooley for a talk 'The Gentleman's Magazine: A Panorama of Georgian Britain for Family and Local Historians' tomorrow at 2pm. More details and to book: https://t.co/hvEo1JPo96

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For the anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, here’s my portrait of the Beatles from ‘The Story of Britain’ by Patrick Dillon.

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Mythic Britain & Ireland, an expansion for the Vaesen Nordic Horror RPG by , is now on : https://t.co/OPQljsE63v

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Dec. 6, 1921: Peace activists from 3 nations meet in Washington to encourage world disarmament. They are Kiyoshi Kawakami of Japan, Frederick Libby of the U.S. and Britain's Francis E. Pollard. The poster notes the (undercounted) cost of the last war: 10 million lives.

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Join us tomorrow evening, Tues 7 Dec, for our final in-person lecture of the year. Richard Atkinson discusses the unsettling story of his eighteenth-century ancestors and their involvement in one of the darkest periods in Britain's past: https://t.co/s9emrhGxzF

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Through trials and tribulations, I got this done. In spite of and not because of. 🙇🏿‍♀️

Publisher: / in December 2021

Cover: Errol Lloyd, The Lesson (1972)

Book Designer: Hélène Baum-Owoyele

Pictured: Uncle Errol at Tate Britain this Autumn

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(Undergrad) MONETA AVGVSTI: Second and third century coin imagery and the imperial influence in Roman Britain 🤑 https://t.co/nvK1A4vY0o

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My online shop is now OPEN selling prints and greeting cards of my insect illustrations. Here is a detail from ‘Beetles and Bugs of Britain’ . link to shop: https://t.co/DipNsqfoqO

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1905: Death of Lucy Everest Boole FRIC. 1st♀️Prof Chemistry in Ireland or Britain; London School of Medicine for Women ! 1st♀️Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry! Research croton oil. 1st♀️to research pharmacy in England! https://t.co/XfFCiaugYR

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All I want for Christmas is the new album and not just for Evan Parker and the cover as a guide to all the animals & plants of Great Britain. How many do you recognise? https://t.co/KJOeXJAxDL

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According to his contemporaries, Franz Adolph of Freenthal was “an energetic man of the world with varied fortunes, first-rate eloquence, and many English passions.” This painting is probably Adolph’s best work, which he painted after his return from Britain to Moravia in 1770.

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THIS SACRED ISLE - an historical fantasy novel set in Dark Age Britain and inspired by Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic myths

Get your FREE eBook from - coupon PY88P

Hurry - offer ends Monday!

https://t.co/VrClyBZLjk

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