This is a very interesting read, and the story of horses and politics continues with our own 19th century take: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/t...

**Symposium News** We have a few spaces available at our symposium in Oxford next Friday (17 April) on the theme 'When there are no sources'. The event is free, but please sign up using the link below. Our speakers are John Arnold, Hannah Murphy, Jonathan Saha, Miranda Spieler and Tess Wingard.

#HistoryJob - our friends @leicsvcht.bsky.social are advertising for a fixed term role as Editor/Volunteer Coordinator for a community-based history project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Role includes research and writing and might suit an #ECR 🗃️

MP of the Month: Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785-1840), soldier, scientist and politician Like many of our MPs, Nicholas Vigors had a varied career, as a soldier, landowner, politician and eminent zoologist. Although best known as a founder and secretary of the Zoological Society of Lon…

Our #1832AtoZ is at an end, with Z for Zoo. Nicholas Vigors, an Irish MP, played a leading role in the early development of London Zoo and was the first secretary of the Zoological Society of London. For more on his scientific and political careers, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/m...

Nice little story about the Pagets (earls of Uxbridge):
The first Lord Paget (William) was made a knight of the Garter by Henry VIII; Edward VI decided he was not a gentleman, so ordered the Garter stripped off his leg; Queen Mary thought otherwise, so personally reattached it...
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18th-century newspapers always know how to cut to the chase:
"the late earl of Uxbridge had the largest stud of horses of any nobleman in Europe, keeping the amazing number of 720 horses and mares, and never rode one of them"
#HistParl

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For sale! The Shell Guide to Life in the Meadow. An original 1956 poster by John Leigh-Pemberton in excellent condition. DM to buy for £65, or go directly to my Etsy shop here: https://etsy.com/uk/listing/1777172760/shell-guide-to-life-in-the-meadow-an The text reads as follow: WORMS, unpoetical creatures, yet not without beauty if you can forget their slime, are essential aerators of the meadow soil. Here are three kinds, COMMON EARTHWORM (1), GREEN WORM (2) and ROSY EISENIA (3). Here, too, is the MOLE (4), who tunnels after worms, with a shape no less adapted to life under the meadow. HARES (5), meadow-dwellers and grass-eaters, are now commoner in many districts than the rabbit. Two meadow birds are the STARLING (6) - standing in the picture on a mole-hill— and the YELLOW WAGTAIL (1). Of meadow plants, SWEET VERNAL GRASS (8) gives its smell to hay; while QUAKING GRASS (9), useless for cattle, was anciently a magic herb, because of the quaking and shaking of its spikelets in the least stir of air. When they stop shaking they are said to turn to sixpences. Damp meadows are a home for COWSLIPS (10), RAGGED ROBIN (11) and (OUR) LADY'S SMOCK (12), named after the smock worn by the Virgin Mary when Christ was born. St Helena was supposed to have found it in Bethlehem. Favoured meadows, especially by the Upper Thames, will be dark in the last weeks of April with FRITILLARIES (13).

For sale! The Shell Guide to Life in the Meadow. An original 1956 poster by John Leigh-Pemberton in excellent condition. DM to buy for £65, or go directly to my Etsy shop here: https://etsy.com/uk/listing/1777172760/shell-guide-to-life-in-the-meadow-an The text reads as follow: WORMS, unpoetical creatures, yet not without beauty if you can forget their slime, are essential aerators of the meadow soil. Here are three kinds, COMMON EARTHWORM (1), GREEN WORM (2) and ROSY EISENIA (3). Here, too, is the MOLE (4), who tunnels after worms, with a shape no less adapted to life under the meadow. HARES (5), meadow-dwellers and grass-eaters, are now commoner in many districts than the rabbit. Two meadow birds are the STARLING (6) - standing in the picture on a mole-hill— and the YELLOW WAGTAIL (1). Of meadow plants, SWEET VERNAL GRASS (8) gives its smell to hay; while QUAKING GRASS (9), useless for cattle, was anciently a magic herb, because of the quaking and shaking of its spikelets in the least stir of air. When they stop shaking they are said to turn to sixpences. Damp meadows are a home for COWSLIPS (10), RAGGED ROBIN (11) and (OUR) LADY'S SMOCK (12), named after the smock worn by the Virgin Mary when Christ was born. St Helena was supposed to have found it in Bethlehem. Favoured meadows, especially by the Upper Thames, will be dark in the last weeks of April with FRITILLARIES (13).

For sale! The Shell Guide to Life in the Meadow. An original 1956 poster by John Leigh-Pemberton in excellent condition. DM to buy for £65, or go directly to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

My 15-year-old son is really keen to do a creative writing course this summer, which is quite expensive for me, so every sale helps towards that at the moment! 🖊️

Postdoctoral Researcher positions in History Se annonsen i sin helhet på engelska nedan.

Postdocs X 2 in #History Åbo Akademi University. The location of work is in Turku, Finland.

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Lecturer - History and Politics at HRUC Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships at King's College London Discover a PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Sedimentary DNA - University of Reading #skystorians 🗃️
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Post-doc: History of Conservation and Animal Health to work on the project ‘Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health’
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Lecturer in Education (PGCE History) at University of Bristol An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Education (PGCE History) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Gosh, yes. I'd nearly forgotten that! 🥰

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The nonsense case against birthright citizenship Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.

It appears that most of the Supreme Court agrees: Trump's argument against birthright citizenship makes no sense.

Pam Bondi proves that for Trump, you can't debase yourself enough The fierce loyalist committed herself to Trumpian theatrics—and lost the job anyway.

It turns out that in Trumpworld, you’re only as good as your least bad congressional performance.

Ooh, that's great, Catherine! Thanks so much. Will check that out.

2 soft pink blossoms of pelargonium glutinosium. The plant was featured in Curtis' Bot. Magazine in 1791.

2 white blossoms with a pink pattern on two petals of Pelargonium crithmifolium. The plant was reported in cultivation in England as early as 1792.

A white-and-violet blossom of pelargonium praemordum. "It was first raised from seeds procured from the Cape by Mr. Quarrell, at the nursery of Mr. Colville, King’s road, Chelsea, where it has been plentifully increased.", writes the Bot. Magazine in 1801.

2 red blossoms of Pelargonium fulgidum, introduced in 1789

These pelargoniums species might have been known to Jane Austen.

Read more about pelargoniums, Jane Austen and her novel Mansfield Park here: regency-explorer.net/pelargonium/

#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark #18thc #18thcentury