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 ...
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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Life lessons from 18th-century England’s most obese manIt’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 ...
In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.
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Archaeologists In Britain Uncovered Evidence Of An Eighteenth Century Cold Plunge Pool Beneath A Historic Social Club, Suggesting The Trendy Wellness Practice Has B…In Britain, archaeological excavations revealed evidence of a plunge pool from the 18th century underneath a historic social ...
Researchers cataloged “drains, floors, plaster walls and lots of interesting evidence of day to day life in the 18th century,” officials said in a Dec. 13 Facebook post. What are we learning about the ...
The birthplace of 18th Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has launched an appeal to help preserve its collection of ...
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