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New Book: “De ilustrados a patriotas” 10 Apr

Conference:  Repton Study Day:  “by nature so romantic” 8 Apr

Bright Aurora Now Demands My Song 4 Apr

Hutcheson's Constitutional Criteria 2 Apr

Securing the Joints on my Drag Cart with Rawhide Strips By Keith H Burgess 6 Apr

New books in BSB: April 2018 12 Apr

CFP: Shakespeare FuturEd Conference in Sydney 19 Apr

CFP: Migration, Health and Humanities Conference, 26-27 Nov. 2018 University of Otago 10 Apr

QMCECS Seminar: Kathleen Murphy (Cal Poly) 24 April 2018 16 Apr

Magnum Contact Sheets 24 Mar

Monday 3 April 1665 4 Apr

Two frontier bishops 10 Apr

“the horrors of that midnight Cry” 9 Apr

On The Books: Reflecting on Year One of the SNC Project 20 Apr

An Unconventional Marchioness: The Life of Lady Salisbury

In our earlier blog, looking at entertainments in Regency London, it was remarked that the Marchioness of Salisbury was unusual in opening her house to...

All Things Georgian • 27 Mar 2018

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born mostly English artist, 1607-1677)

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born mostly English artist, 1607-1677). We have few depictions of women in the 17C British American colonies,...

17th-century American Women • 24 Mar 2018

March 3

What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Georgia Gazette (March 30, 1768).“BLANKS of several sorts to be sold at...

The Adverts 250 Project • 30 Mar 2018

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born mostly English artist, 1607-1677)

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born mostly English artist, 1607-1677). We have few depictions of women in the 17C British American colonies,...

17th-century American Women • 13 Apr 2018

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born mostly English artist, 1607-1677)

17C Woman by Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born mostly English artist, 1607-1677). We have few depictions of women in the 17C British American colonies,...

17th-century American Women • 17 Apr 2018

Fort Plain Museum’s American Revolution Conference, 7-10 June 2018

Fort Plain Museum’s American Revolution Mohawk Valley Conference will take place this year from Thursday, 7 June, to Sunday, 10 June.The event schedule...

Boston 1775 • 24 Mar 2018

The New European Barbershop on lacquerware

This lacquerware box was manufactured in the workshop of Johann Heinrich Stobwasser (1740 – 1829), in the German city of Braunschweig,...

The Print Shop Window • 6 Apr 2018

“Very silly questions very foolishly answered”

At All Things Georgian, Sarah Murden has shared some amusing extracts (part 1 and part 2) from a 1759 book titled The Gentleman and Lady of Pleasure’s...

Boston 1775 • 5 Apr 2018

Summary of Slavery Advertisements Published April 8-14

These tables indicate how many advertisements for slaves appeared in colonial American newspapers during the week of April 8-14, 1768. Note:  These...

The Adverts 250 Project • 14 Apr 2018

Sailors and the Enslaved: An Odd Bond

This post is the latest in my occasional series Race, Revolt, and Piracy, examining racial violence at sea.Detail form The Jovial Crew, Thomas Rowlandson,...

British Tars, 1740-1790 • 26 Mar 2018

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