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  1. @claralistensprechen3rd @Lassielmr @TheEconomist @GreenFire

    #UK #England #Scotland #Ireland #History

    (3/5)

    ...has been in this game since the coronation of the first and last #Stuart Queen, Anne, in 1702. ;)

    The #BritishEmpire came (arguably) into existence with #QueenElizabethI's permission for #WalterRaleigh to set up a colony in N-America (#RoanokeIsland) 1) and was cemented by the the 1713 #TreatyOfUtrecht which ended the #WarOfTheSpanishSecession, significantly enlarging #GB.
    2)
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  2. In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-m).

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh

  3. In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-m).

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh

  4. In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-m).

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh