Surprise 18th-century home found on UK estate used to film ‘Game of Thrones.’ See it
“The canal was built in 1728 by Judge Michael Ward. It created a formal landscape and was designed to reflect the picturesque ...
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Life lessons from 18th-century England’s most obese man
It’s hooked, loosely, around her 2014 discovery of the ideas of the polymath and society doctor George Cheyne; ironically, given he was “the most obese man in 18th-century England”, he’s ...
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British School, 18th Century
As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...
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How Britain’s cultural revolution transformed the world
When Shakespeare wrote the word honest' he meant noble, in an aristocratic sense. By the 18th century in Britain it came to mean truth-telling - the merchant's virtue of reliability. British ...
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Crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain
In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.
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18th Century POW love letters opened at last by Cambridge professor
which had no punctuation and erratic spelling Unopened love letters written by French families to sailors captured by the British in an 18th Century conflict have been read for the first time.
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Dutch 18th Century mass grave: Skeletons in Vianen were British soldiers
Eighty-two skeletons found in a mass grave in the Dutch city of Vianen were mainly British soldiers who died of illness in an 18th Century field hospital, archaeologists say. The remains were ...