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During a heatwave, the let it all hang out... Saucy seaside postcards are nothing new! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.

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2022-06-17

The first women's cricket match took place in 1745, between the villages of Bramley and Hambledon. Hambledon claimed the victory and The Mercury reported that, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do in that game."

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2021-07-26

This fellow has just the thing for a heatwave! The of 1801 knew how to do hats.

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2021-07-20

During a heatwave, the let it all hang out... Saucy seaside postcards are nothing new! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.

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2021-07-19

It takes a lot of work to be - just ask Captain Cork Rump as he straps on his stays and false bum! Via of Library of Congress.

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2021-03-31

Spiritual Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson. "Thou soon shalt be Bone of my Bone, and Flesh of my Flesh", and don't they both look thrilled about it?

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2021-02-14

The trials of Henrietta Howard, remembered by Horace Walpole... "She has been confined with the gout in her eyes ... They poulticed her feet to draw the gout downwards, [but] it flew up into her head, and she was almost in convulsions with the agony" Ouch!

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2021-01-04

Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontës, died in 1821. Maria was just 28 when she died.

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2020-09-15

Muff? What muff? This dandy is giving it his all!

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2020-09-13

When Frederick William I of Prussia was feeling down, he had a legion of strapping soldiers known as the Potsdam Giants march through his bedroom to cheer him up! He was born in 1688.

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2020-08-14

“This old hat? I just threw this on.” The ladies of Le Bon Genre model their most understated headgear. via the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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2020-08-14

I think they need a bigger garden. Fun and games for the ladies of Le Bon Genre. via Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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2020-08-07

I love this chipper gal, she looks as though she’s got plenty to say! A Kitchen Scene by Paul Sandby. via the Royal Collection Trust.

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2020-08-06

Just two gals earning an honest crust! The Pretty Milleners, 1781. via the British Museum.

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2020-08-05

Grinling Gibbons died 1721. Walpole wrote, "There is no instance of a man before who gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.”

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2020-08-03

Princess Augusta of Great Britain was born in 1737. Horace Walpole wrote that she "was lively, and much inclined to meddle in the private politics of the Court.

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2020-07-31

The first women's match took place in 1745, when the villages of Bramley and Hambledon met. Hambledon claimed the victory and The Mercury reported that, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game."

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2020-07-26

Actual footage of the ideal pub for social distancing - up a tree! Landscape with a Hut in an Oak Tree - 'The Man in the Moon Inn', by Anthony Devis. via the Harris Museum and Art Gallery.

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2020-07-15

Actual footage of stay safe! Deadly Lively by Thomas Rowlandson, via the British Museum.

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2020-07-04

Rhoda Delaval, artist, was born in 1725. Delaval studied art with Arthur Pond and made her London home at 11 Downing Street.

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2020-07-01