Dr Greg Roberts
@d-profundis.bsky.social
Historian of Regency era (1788-1837)
Researching William Long-Wellesley, celebrity, and the fall of Wanstead House
University of Westminster Alumni
Londonist 🔶 Orient Fan 🔶
Eejit 🔶 Irishman
Blog - www.wickedwilliam.com
Researching William Long-Wellesley, celebrity, and the fall of Wanstead House
University of Westminster Alumni
Londonist 🔶 Orient Fan 🔶
Eejit 🔶 Irishman
Blog - www.wickedwilliam.com
One Xmas tradition we'd all like to get rid of - 1829 satire of a young blood locked up after assaulting a #London policeman, awaiting bail on #Christmas Day
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One Xmas tradition we'd all like to get rid of - 1829 satire of a young blood locked up after assaulting a #London policeman, awaiting bail on #Christmas Day
Old #CoventGarden Market at #Xmas 1825 ; view from beneath the tiled roof of a stall, stacked with baskets of fruit, a man with a pair of scales, a woman nursing a baby, another kneeling over a stove #London
December 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Old #CoventGarden Market at #Xmas 1825 ; view from beneath the tiled roof of a stall, stacked with baskets of fruit, a man with a pair of scales, a woman nursing a baby, another kneeling over a stove #London
Remember that #Xmas is a time for family - which can include the painful distant relatives who may intrude on your peace and serenity - such as this bloke polluting a gathering in #London, December 20th 1795
#HappyChristmas
#HappyChristmas
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Remember that #Xmas is a time for family - which can include the painful distant relatives who may intrude on your peace and serenity - such as this bloke polluting a gathering in #London, December 20th 1795
#HappyChristmas
#HappyChristmas
Greetings All
Here’s an Xmas card image for all those Duke of #Wellington obsessed historians like me.
Here’s an Xmas card image for all those Duke of #Wellington obsessed historians like me.
December 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Greetings All
Here’s an Xmas card image for all those Duke of #Wellington obsessed historians like me.
Here’s an Xmas card image for all those Duke of #Wellington obsessed historians like me.
Christmas Boxes - London 1794
1/4 This miser decides not to give a gift on the grounds that his visitor already has too much meat on him
1/4 This miser decides not to give a gift on the grounds that his visitor already has too much meat on him
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Christmas Boxes - London 1794
1/4 This miser decides not to give a gift on the grounds that his visitor already has too much meat on him
1/4 This miser decides not to give a gift on the grounds that his visitor already has too much meat on him
A traditional English Christmas
1/4 Four scenes from London c.1750 which may resonate with how we celebrate Xmas today
We begin on Christmas Eve morning where a gentleman stands outside his porch handing a tip to a man whilst his servant carries off two large birds and a hare
1/4 Four scenes from London c.1750 which may resonate with how we celebrate Xmas today
We begin on Christmas Eve morning where a gentleman stands outside his porch handing a tip to a man whilst his servant carries off two large birds and a hare
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A traditional English Christmas
1/4 Four scenes from London c.1750 which may resonate with how we celebrate Xmas today
We begin on Christmas Eve morning where a gentleman stands outside his porch handing a tip to a man whilst his servant carries off two large birds and a hare
1/4 Four scenes from London c.1750 which may resonate with how we celebrate Xmas today
We begin on Christmas Eve morning where a gentleman stands outside his porch handing a tip to a man whilst his servant carries off two large birds and a hare
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'Fetching in the lines', fisherwoman Lizzie Alice Hawksfield, Whitby, late 19th century, photo by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941).
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
'Fetching in the lines', fisherwoman Lizzie Alice Hawksfield, Whitby, late 19th century, photo by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941).
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Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
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I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets shorturl.at/I0Ywf
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. Tickets shorturl.at/I0Ywf
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Excellent to spend the evening with my old friend @rorycj.bsky.social for @wansteadfringe.bsky.social chatting about #sophiefromromania, Parkinson’s, and that other place
September 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Excellent to spend the evening with my old friend @rorycj.bsky.social for @wansteadfringe.bsky.social chatting about #sophiefromromania, Parkinson’s, and that other place
My talk on the Lost Children of Wanstead House went off very well!
@wansteadfringe
@wansteadfringe
September 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My talk on the Lost Children of Wanstead House went off very well!
@wansteadfringe
@wansteadfringe
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lovely glimpse of what I think must be hand-made paper bags in this famous Scharf painting of 1820s Covent Garden
September 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
lovely glimpse of what I think must be hand-made paper bags in this famous Scharf painting of 1820s Covent Garden
This calling card of John Child, 2nd Earl Tylney - exiled in Naples after a homosexual scandal at #Wanstead House c.1770 adopts fascinatingly reversed 'N'. I am wondering if he used this socially as a form of coded confirmation of his sexuality to others.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
September 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This calling card of John Child, 2nd Earl Tylney - exiled in Naples after a homosexual scandal at #Wanstead House c.1770 adopts fascinatingly reversed 'N'. I am wondering if he used this socially as a form of coded confirmation of his sexuality to others.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
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'Outside 17B', Tollington Park, Finsbury Park (2012) by Liam Devereux
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September 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
'Outside 17B', Tollington Park, Finsbury Park (2012) by Liam Devereux
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If you liked Geraldine Robert’s’ The Angel and the Cad this talk will reveal what happened to the children of tragic #Wanstead House heiress Catherine Tylney-Long (Wellesley)
Whatever happened to the last family born at Wanstead House? Find out via my @wansteadfringe talk at #Wanstead Cricket Club on Tuesday 16th September 7-30pm wansteadfringe.org/event/the-unto…
August 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If you liked Geraldine Robert’s’ The Angel and the Cad this talk will reveal what happened to the children of tragic #Wanstead House heiress Catherine Tylney-Long (Wellesley)
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TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
August 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking
Whatever happened to the last family born at Wanstead House? Find out via my @wansteadfringe talk at #Wanstead Cricket Club on Tuesday 16th September 7-30pm wansteadfringe.org/event/the-unto…
August 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Whatever happened to the last family born at Wanstead House? Find out via my @wansteadfringe talk at #Wanstead Cricket Club on Tuesday 16th September 7-30pm wansteadfringe.org/event/the-unto…
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New profile pic, new season, new us
#WansteadFringe
#Fringe
www.wansteadfringe.com
Starts 6th September 2025.
#WansteadFringe
#Fringe
www.wansteadfringe.com
Starts 6th September 2025.
August 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
New profile pic, new season, new us
#WansteadFringe
#Fringe
www.wansteadfringe.com
Starts 6th September 2025.
#WansteadFringe
#Fringe
www.wansteadfringe.com
Starts 6th September 2025.
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📖 Words by The Angel and the Cad author Geraldine Roberts
🎻 Music by internationally-renowned Anastasia Nikki Forova
🔥 Culminating in an open-air beneath the stars
Be part of a night where history lives,music soars, and Catherine’s spirit shines again! 🎶
wansteadfringe.org/event/house-...
🎻 Music by internationally-renowned Anastasia Nikki Forova
🔥 Culminating in an open-air beneath the stars
Be part of a night where history lives,music soars, and Catherine’s spirit shines again! 🎶
wansteadfringe.org/event/house-...
House of Scandal: A tribute to heiress Catherine – WANSTEAD FRINGE
wansteadfringe.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
📖 Words by The Angel and the Cad author Geraldine Roberts
🎻 Music by internationally-renowned Anastasia Nikki Forova
🔥 Culminating in an open-air beneath the stars
Be part of a night where history lives,music soars, and Catherine’s spirit shines again! 🎶
wansteadfringe.org/event/house-...
🎻 Music by internationally-renowned Anastasia Nikki Forova
🔥 Culminating in an open-air beneath the stars
Be part of a night where history lives,music soars, and Catherine’s spirit shines again! 🎶
wansteadfringe.org/event/house-...
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House of Scandal! A tribute to heiress Catherine.
An evening of storytelling, music and community at St Mary’s Church commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Catherine Long-Wellesley whose fortune was squandered by a rogue husband.
📅 12th Sept 7:30-9:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Wanstead
An evening of storytelling, music and community at St Mary’s Church commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Catherine Long-Wellesley whose fortune was squandered by a rogue husband.
📅 12th Sept 7:30-9:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Wanstead
August 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
House of Scandal! A tribute to heiress Catherine.
An evening of storytelling, music and community at St Mary’s Church commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Catherine Long-Wellesley whose fortune was squandered by a rogue husband.
📅 12th Sept 7:30-9:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Wanstead
An evening of storytelling, music and community at St Mary’s Church commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Catherine Long-Wellesley whose fortune was squandered by a rogue husband.
📅 12th Sept 7:30-9:30pm
📍St Mary’s Church, Wanstead