Worst reaction I’ve ever seen to Rory McIlroy winning the Masters again

“The Greatest Appearance of Company ever seen”: Parliament, politics and horse-racing in the early 18th century - The History of Parliament With Parliament in recess and ‘Glorious Goodwood’ in full swing, Dr Robin Eagles, Editor of the House of Lords 1715-90 section, considers the importance of

With the Grand National taking place this weekend at Aintree, another chance to consider the importance of horse racing for the politics of Georgian society:
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#HistParl #grandnational

Wow - well done on getting this done
Hope this history of an important London landmark gets widely read

3/3 however, by 1819 a new Easter Monday tradition appeared, and went on to replace the Epping Hunt - namely cycling from the Eagle Inn at #Snaresbrook - which continued right up to the 1970s tinyurl.com/y3ehuglc

2/3 Then in 1813 nouveua riche wide-boy William Long Wellesley of #Wanstead House blinged up the Easter Monday Epping Hunt to the max wickedwilliam.com/gggoobles

1/3 For centuries Londoners associated Easter Monday with The #Epping Hunt. This Rowlandson satire from 1811 reflects how it had moved from gentrification to become a thoroughly #cockney festival tinyurl.com/y4avwe9d

Another splendid view of the Seven Sisters copse of trees, on the green in the parish of #Tottenham High Cross, north of #London (1818)

A view of Bruce Castle near #Tottenham c.1815

View of the ancient copse of seven trees, on a green in #Tottenham, north of #London - already considered an antiquity in 1818, and from whom Seven Sisters gets its name

A house in Tottenham, sketched by George Scharf c.1824

A beautiful study of Tottenham High Cross just north of #London; with the Swan public house to the left, men sitting outside, two children playing, a parked up horse & cart, and a chaise with two ladies on board passing by. Scharf (1822)

Another pesky road closure
Men At Work on Tottenham Court Road, installing new water pipes, with the solder being heated in a cauldron and very little regard for public safety, #London (1834) by George Scharf

Lest We Forget

2/2 Scharf's simple yet somehow more humane sketch of the same man

Lest We Forget
1/2 The Old Commodore of Tottenham Court Road
A portrait of a well-known black beggar, man wearing a long coat and with a wooden leg, right hand holding a hat and left hand resting on a broom handle
By William Fairland, #London c.1835

Scharf visits Tottenham Court Road, near Howland Street, and sketches the splendid shopfront of No 58 - Syms Cabinet Manufactury which stands next door to Parker's Printshop #London June, 1833

A lovely big dovecote situatedat the rear of a house at West Green, Tottenham just north of #London - by George Scharf 1823

Another of Scharf's many studies of foreigners seen out and about in #London. This fez-wearing gentleman walking in Tottenham Court Road (1834) is assumed to be Greek, but the headgear suggests that he may be an Ottoman

You are cordially invited to the Stamford Hill and Tottenham Horticultural Society Flower Show, held at Mr Graven's garden near the Stamford Hill Turnpike, just north of #London in May 1848 (Scharf)

Revealed!
Why the chicken crossed the road
He was popping into Mr Cock's house at Tottenham, as drawn by George Scharf (1826)

Danger! Men At Work
Scharf is disturbed at 8 o'clock one morning in April 1844 by a gang of workmen clambering over a nearby scaffold to effect repairs on a house in Francis Street #London
This terrace location now lies beneath Heal's Furniture Store in Tottenham Court Road

Crushed By The Wheels of Industry
Camden Town falls victim to progress when the new #London to #Birmingham Railway cuts an ugly swathe accross its once idyllic rurality (1838).
Good job no one would ever think of vandalising our countryside like that nowadays

An example of Victorian #Liverpool courtesy of the paintings of William Gawin Herdman, featuring a house on the corner of Camden Street and Commutation Row (1857)

Another Pratt from Camden wearing a short wig with curls and an unbuttoned coat; published in #London c.1794

The unveiling of Richard Cobden.s Statue at #Camden in 1865 - 3 yrs after his death & mainly funded by then French ruler #NapeoleonIII

A view of Mann & Sargon's floor cloth manufactory at Highfield on Camden Road, just north of #London by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1828)

Wait 'Til I Get You Home!
A drunken doctor being wheel-barrowed away from the Yorkshire Stingo in Camden, incurring the wrath of his wife and dog. in a scene captured by Rowlandson, #London November 1810

Primrose Hill, Chalk Farm & its Environs, taken from Park Street c.1838 View of the two large chimneys of the stationary engine, on either side of the railway tracks of the #London & #Birmingham Railway, in Camden Town; with crowds gathered to watch the approach of the train.

A view on the new railway bridge across the canal at Camden on the new #London to Birmingham Railway, September 17th 1837

A view of Kentish Town Church in the parish of #Camden, 1824 - Does anyone know where this church was, or indeed if it still exists? #London

Good luck!
It’s a lovely place to visit for research