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#OTD 1890 H. P. Lovecraft was born.

It must have ben a nightmare before social media,having to go outside to see a cat!

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What happens when you grow up in a house full of history books and especially books on the Napoleonic Wars? You write a book. Now available on Amazon. Marshal Ney: Fall From Glory amzn.eu/d/dXXa18l

I think it's really classy.

Waxed Barbour tracksuits, now there's an idea.

Robert Tombs has suggested that these photos could date from the Siege of Paris.

no it's fine Nick Short 🇺🇦 isn't at home, I'm sure he won't mind

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Probaby been done, but H.P. Lovecraft's stories would work better in graphic novel form.

The Times, 15 May 1829.

yeah we don't want the Saxons coming in

The Times, 31 May 1830: 'We have now read, with an attention which was even painful, the whole mass of papers presented to Parliament' What a remarkable display of empathy from a primary source towards the historian 195 years later.

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