#18thcentury — Public Fediverse posts
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith. www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org #c18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #18thCentury #poems
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
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The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith.
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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Very excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on the London Stage Database:
https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/
Features a map of venues, a theatrical calendar, detailed repertoire, cast and role lists, financial information courtesy of Theatronomics, network visualisations, and more.
#c18th #theatrestudies #digitalhumanities #theatre #18thCentury #performingarts
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Very excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on the London Stage Database:
https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/
Features a map of venues, a theatrical calendar, detailed repertoire, cast and role lists, financial information courtesy of Theatronomics, network visualisations, and more.
#c18th #theatrestudies #digitalhumanities #theatre #18thCentury #performingarts
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Very excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on the London Stage Database:
https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/
Features a map of venues, a theatrical calendar, detailed repertoire, cast and role lists, financial information courtesy of Theatronomics, network visualisations, and more.
#c18th #theatrestudies #digitalhumanities #theatre #18thCentury #performingarts
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Very excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on the London Stage Database:
https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/
Features a map of venues, a theatrical calendar, detailed repertoire, cast and role lists, financial information courtesy of Theatronomics, network visualisations, and more.
#c18th #theatrestudies #digitalhumanities #theatre #18thCentury #performingarts
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Very excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on the London Stage Database:
https://londontheatre.prisms.digital/
Features a map of venues, a theatrical calendar, detailed repertoire, cast and role lists, financial information courtesy of Theatronomics, network visualisations, and more.
#c18th #theatrestudies #digitalhumanities #theatre #18thCentury #performingarts
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Pickering Quaker Meeting House #quakers #Quakerhistory #18thcentury #Yorkshire
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Pickering Quaker Meeting House #quakers #Quakerhistory #18thcentury #Yorkshire
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Pickering Quaker Meeting House #quakers #Quakerhistory #18thcentury #Yorkshire
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Pickering Quaker Meeting House #quakers #Quakerhistory #18thcentury #Yorkshire
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Pickering Quaker Meeting House #quakers #Quakerhistory #18thcentury #Yorkshire
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
#FollowFriday #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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There’s a selection of Galt’s works available as free ebooks on @gutenberg_org
6/6https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/588?sort_order=title
#Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt
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John Galt’s fictional works – poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism – are sharp political satires & fascinating chronicles of Scottish life. Our INTERNATIONAL COMPANION to Galt is available in print, or online via Project MUSE
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic5/
#Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt
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“Between Whigs and Tories I can make no distinction,—a Tory is but a Whig in office, and a Whig but a Tory in opposition”
—John Galt, THE MEMBER (1832). Described as “the first political novel tout court”, it’s available as an ebook from @canongatebooks
3/6
https://canongate.co.uk/books/228-the-member-and-the-radical/
#Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt
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“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s 1821 novel ANNALS OF THE PARISH
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https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-galts-annals-parish/
#Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt #Ursulakleguin
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“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away”
—Prof Alan Riach on the fiction of John Galt (1779–1839), born #OTD, 2 May – a 🎂🧵
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#Scottish #literature #satire #politics #politicalfiction #18thcentury #19thcentury #enlightenment #romanticism #JohnGalt
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Kirby Bank — A Hill With a Past
Bluebells pour down the sun-baked flank of Kirby Bank above the plain of Cleveland. Gorse burns yellow across the slopes. Below, the white walls of the Pybus Scout Centre gleam in the spring light. Beyond the green patchwork of fields, Roseberry Topping rises on the far hor ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/01/kirby-bank-a-hill-with-a-past/
#Kirby #KirkbyinCleveland #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #18thcentury #alum #history #medieval #monastic
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Rede Bridge: Carrying Nothing But a Grassy Track
Built in 1715, Rede Bridge crosses the River Rede in rural Northumberland with two confident stone arches and a smaller flood arch on the right bank. It is Grade II listed. It is, by any measure, too good a bridge for a field path.
So why build it at all?
The most persuasive answer involves c ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/26/rede-bridge-carrying-nothing-but-a-grassy-track/
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The Linnaeus Apostles travel journals, etc., are fully published in ”The Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure”, 6000 pages of unique insights into Natural & Cultural History from bygone landscapes.
https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/linnaeus-apostles-full-set/
#linnaeus #science #nature #culturalhistory #18thcentury #naturalists #expeditions
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The Linnaeus Apostles travel journals, etc., are fully published in ”The Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure”, 6000 pages of unique insights into Natural & Cultural History from bygone landscapes.
https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/linnaeus-apostles-full-set/
#linnaeus #science #nature #culturalhistory #18thcentury #naturalists #expeditions
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The Linnaeus Apostles travel journals, etc., are fully published in ”The Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure”, 6000 pages of unique insights into Natural & Cultural History from bygone landscapes.
https://www.ikfoundation.org/books-and-art/linnaeus-apostles-full-set/
#linnaeus #science #nature #culturalhistory #18thcentury #naturalists #expeditions
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Cengage: Gale Launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III, Expanding Access to Rare and Previously Undigitized Materials. “Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/cengage-gale-launches-eighteenth-century-collections-online-part-iii-expanding-access-to-rare-and-previously-undigitized-materials/ -
Cengage: Gale Launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III, Expanding Access to Rare and Previously Undigitized Materials. “Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/cengage-gale-launches-eighteenth-century-collections-online-part-iii-expanding-access-to-rare-and-previously-undigitized-materials/ -
Cengage: Gale Launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III, Expanding Access to Rare and Previously Undigitized Materials. “Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/cengage-gale-launches-eighteenth-century-collections-online-part-iii-expanding-access-to-rare-and-previously-undigitized-materials/ -
Cengage: Gale Launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III, Expanding Access to Rare and Previously Undigitized Materials. “Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/cengage-gale-launches-eighteenth-century-collections-online-part-iii-expanding-access-to-rare-and-previously-undigitized-materials/ -
Cengage: Gale Launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III, Expanding Access to Rare and Previously Undigitized Materials. “Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/10/cengage-gale-launches-eighteenth-century-collections-online-part-iii-expanding-access-to-rare-and-previously-undigitized-materials/ -
'Twas now the witching Time of Night! 'When Church-Yards yawn' and ev'ry Sprite, Glides forth to purer Air. - From a broadside 'Ode' called 'Past Twelve o'Clock', written about sightings of the ghost of Admiral George Byng, who was executed in 1757. #PhantomsFriday #Portsmouth #18thCentury
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From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance
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From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance
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From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance
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From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance
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From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance
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“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”
—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment
🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵
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#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #18thcentury #satire #Jacobites
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“Angelou on Burns” is also available on YouTube, if you can’t watch on the iPlayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbuCL-Osh8
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #MayaAngelou #BurnsNight #poetry #romanticism #18thcentury