Under the arches with it's original blue lime painting and 18thC stone pavement⚜️

London book launch taking place at...
🎉🎭GARRICK'S TEMPLE TO SHAKESPEARE!🎭🎉
7pm-8.30pm 11th May; Hampton, TW12 2EJ
Details and *free* tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/808830101607
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Methuen Drama Soc Theatre Research TaPRA The R/18 Collective #18thc

Excited to host an #onlinetalk on June 6th on the #investigation and #conservation of the #18thC interiors at A la Ronde National Trust National Trust South West following its 2Yr conservation. Info & booking via bit.ly/3Uk5XKx

Meet Issac, Abraham, the Ram & the Angel of The Lord. Donald Richie & Isabel Gibbins chose this biblical scene to commemorate the loss of their 5 children, perhaps because it speaks of Faith, Sacrifice & the power of The Lord. Their relatability emphasised by the 18thC clothing.

Yolngu WOTD

rrupiya 'money'
< Makassarese ᨑᨘᨄᨗᨕ rupia
< Sanskrit रूप्य rūpya 'silver, rupee'

Also doy' 'money' < the inherited Makassarese word ᨉᨚᨕᨙ doe' 'money'

These & many other loans into Yolngu langs come from 18thC trepang hunters trading w/ the Top End (map).

I wonder if historians still subscribe to this 18thC thesis, history & historians have come a long way in the last 200 years…🤔

Bill Mitchell Warren B. Mosler Stephanie Kelton Steven Hail Dr. Steve Keen ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ Jeff L. Epstein, host, Activist #MMT, the podcast MMT Podcast (Christian Reilly) #MMT #LearnMMT

#MoveItForDogs 16 April.
7.6 miles 🥾🥾 from Culloden House to Culloden Moor-REALLY following the Jacobite Prince who was here 278 years before.
The original 16thC Culloden House was Jacobite battle HQ. Mostly burnt down in retaliation it was rebuilt in the 18thC.

The book written by Erasmus Darwin speculating on the origin of species was called “Zoonomia”. Darwin’s impact on 18thC British society, from science to literature, has been described as “unequalled”. >>> brnw.ch/21wIWSO

Vik Ummm this image isn’t even Indian. It’s late 18thC Ottoman 😖

1/ Did the masquerade ever get ‘too political’? It’s a tricky question. Because the answer is yes and no. Dressing as ‘a Highlander’ was one of the more contentious choices of masquerade costume—especially during the 1740s.
#18thc #Culloden #GeorgianMasquerade

Our very own James Harriman-Smith is holding a launch event for his new book *What Would Garrick Do?*
7-8.30pm, 11th May 2024 | Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, TW12 2EJ
Free tickets and info: eventbrite.co.uk/e/808830101607
#18thC #twitterstorians

The use of alchemy was popular until the 18thC & often overlapped with medicine.
Alchemy's cure all 'medcine' & elixirs were made based on the 4 humours in the body & incl. recipes for 'oyles', salts, spirits, 'menstruum' & 'sericon'. #Archive30 #HealthArchives ARA Scotland

The Society of Goffers at Blackheath. c.late 18thc. Lemuel Francis Abbott.

FOUR YEARS since my romping Byron family history was unleashed on the world – & I did this ridiculous pandemic-era online launch 🥳

If you want to know more about the poet's EVEN MORE riotous 18thC relatives you can nab signed copies here:
foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page/t…

Great Britain should be re-named as Charity Britain. But . .

'It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world'.
Mary Wollstonecraft, 18thC profound comment

VOTE TUSC

Many of the hymns date to the 18thc & passed down through the generations. Steffan said They’re conversational & the lyrics feel so current. There were committees who would choose what hymns would go into the hymn books. These were the unchosen ones, the #cancelled ones...

Patrick & Brigid from the early 18thC facade (reconstructed after an earthquake) of the 1622-1640 church of St Isidore #Rome

#Writerlife
Apologia
Written by Gillian McIver as part of the Swedenborg House residency
Directed by Jagoda Kamov A true story of Count Cagliostro- the most notorious man in 18thC Europe!
#LONDON
#FRINGE
#THEATRE
#FRINGE THEATRE
#CAMDENFRINGE
#CAGLIOSTRO
#THEATER
#NEWWRITING

From the Freeman's Journal, 1807, referring to the late 18thc:
'...the Castle...was the focus of wealth, taste & grandeur. Italy furnished the statues...,& the paintings to cover the walls; & Paris the looking glasses... All the wits, as well as politicians...assembled there'.

Giles Udy The Telegraph An essay in the program to a National Theatre reading of The Ancient Mariner took pains to explain how 18thC sea trade was involved in colonialism, exploitation etc etc. A whole industry is devoted to spreading this miserable midwittery; it's pervasive, malign and must be fought.