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  1. Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787

    Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d,
    And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d;
    But now unroof’d their Palace stands,
    Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands…

    #OTD, 26 August, 1787, Robert Burns wrote this poem with a diamond-tipped pen on a window in Stirling

    burnsmuseum.wordpress.com/2018

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Jacobites #Hanoverian #republicanism #monarchy #RobertBurns #graffiti

  2. In this blog, Dr Robin Eagles discusses the much-debated question of whether the first Hanoverian king was able to speak English and the implications for the dynasty’s reception in Britain 👇 ow.ly/yEUf50MFql8

    @histodon #GeorgeI #Hanoverian #18thCentury

  3. Guess who got accepted to present at next year's #BATW (Britain and the World) conference? THIS GIRL.
    I'm excited to take a chapter I've been working on and flip it around to look at it from a new vantage point. I'm hoping to turn it into an #academic #monograph and it'll be invaluable to get feedback on it! #histodons #restoration #history #theatre #hanoverian