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Eighteenth century maps of Staffordshire digitised
Hundreds of maps dating back to the 18th century have been digitised for online use under a history project. Staffordshire County Council's Archives and Heritage Service was able to modernise the ...
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Map: The British Colonies
1680: The Royal African company transports 5000 African captives annually. By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming ...
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Welshman's 18th Century US map fetches $125k in New York
The map showing the early British colonies of America is said to be about 75% complete A map hailed as "one of the most important" of the early British colonies in America has sold for $125,000 ...
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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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Did baseball begin in 18th-century England?
London, England (CNN)-- An extract from an 18th-century diary containing the oldest known reference to baseball is among the items on display in a new exhibition in London exploring the English ...
Cambridge University Press6mon
Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England
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How Century-Old Paintings Reveal the Indigenous Roots and Natural History of New England Landscapes
His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...
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, ...
Cambridge University Press5mon
Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood the lifelong process of growing older, in order to reconstruct a set of ideas about age, bodies, identity and change. Advances in ...
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Threats, resignations, and allegations from the beyond: A host of controversies is haunting R.I.’s ‘Conjuring House’
PROVIDENCE — The cameras and microphones throughout the 18th-century cabin known around the world as “The Conjuring House” ...
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Cynthia Klekar-Cunningham
In her scholarship Dr. Klekar-Cunningham was co-editor of The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2009) and is currently working on two projects: a book that examines literary ...