So much to choose from this week that I hardly know what to leave out. Here are this week’s hat tips:
London’s execution sites, courtesy of The Londonist.
@18thCand19th (Geri Walton) tells the tale of Charlotte Charke: Actress, Novelist, and Transvestite.
The Bodleian not only has this:
George IV & Caroline inspired 1819 ladder, leading to Solemnization or Separation! @bodleianlibs #twitterstorians pic.twitter.com/udZpvl6Od3
— Alexi Baker (@AlexiBaker) November 11, 2015
… but also this:
Shelley’s poem, with some of my new favourite lines:
Ye cold advisers of yet colder kings,
To whose fell breast no passion virtue brings,
Who scheme, regardless of the poor man’s pang,
Who coolly sharpen misery’s sharpest fang,
Yourselves secure.
I loved the portrait of Susanna Oakes, a female librarian on the Lewis Walpole blog (via @john_overholt).
What was a bourdaloue? asks All Things Georgian (aka @sarahmurden and @joannemajor3) then helpfully provides the very interesting answser.
The poems and drawings of the Sandby brothers are highlighted on the British Library blog Untold Lives (via @artinsociety)
Finally (but not least) a fascinating crim con case with a surprising outcome from @MimiMatthewsEsq – and not just because it features James Scarlett, who appears in my book about Maria Glenn.
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