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Emily Brand

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Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · Nov 9

Hello newcomers! 👋

I'm a historian of the long eighteenth century, writing a book about Marie Antoinette’s ladies in waiting 💃

My last book was about the scandalous c18th Byron dynasty (a prequel to that dastardly poet)

Posting snippets of Georgian-era research as I go… 📜

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 15h

Continuation of the child's eye view of the French emigration, 1789

Delighted to reveal that:
a) his mum also got chronic diarrhoea
b) then they all went to meet the pope

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 19h

Just keeping us guessing 200 years later

Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 19h

Ugh thankfully not

Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 21h

V. excited to have found a child's diary from 1789, covering the period he & his family fled the French Revolution

... So far it has mostly been 'I am very annoyed about running away!', accompanied with detailed blow by blow accounts of his tutor's unfortunate bouts of diarrhoea #18c

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 2d

Yep but I figured some might only know him as James I so covered both bases

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 2d

🎩 King James VI and I Hat Appreciation post 🎩

🎨 (artist unknown, c.1590) www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 2d

Best place for it!

Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 2d

🎩 King James VI and I Hat Appreciation post 🎩

🎨 (artist unknown, c.1590) www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'The North Wing...built in 1732 to help run the hospital and raise money for it, but fell into decline as the hospital prioritised clinical areas.

Sharing Historic Barts project, external has prepared the building for a new life as a visitor attraction, cultural venue, and commercial events space.'

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 5d

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660