Tulips, Mary Moser (1744-1819), English painter-one of the most celebrated women artists of 18thc Britain

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A survivor’s memoir is quoted in this account of the loss of the '74' HMS Namur, in a storm off India’s east coast of in 1749. Telling of a disaster that claimed some 500 lives, it still has the power to move. Click: https://t.co/90Sq5ku4oX

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Elizabeth Blackwell made a significant contribution to medical knowledge and botanical illustration. ‘A curious herbal’ (1730s) was one of the earliest botanical books created by a woman and an invaluable resource for physicians and apothecaries in the 18thC and beyond.

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Not By The Wayside https://t.co/EcfDzR9AqW
The Mustard Seed, a children's play about Mary Jones and her Bible. <

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There's proof middle aged women were coveted by era men for their sexual experience and ardour. Just saying.


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Amazing: the hairnet was a fashionable head-dress of Empire Style Fashion: https://t.co/BA2V8qgWY2

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Sunday Reading.

18thC French disco fish, Barbican details, a 1950s Japanese cook book, handwriting practice & an amazing metal dessert container.

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