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Victorian Venice
- February 11, 2023
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No CommentsIf you’re like me, you don’t need much of an excuse to immerse yourself in pictures of Venice. Here’s a simple but very effective idea. Why not collect together paintings to re-create a sense of what the city looked like at one particular period? ‘How Venice Looked to Victorian Travelers c1890’ does precisely that - -
Health in the eighteenth century
- January 14, 2023
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Interesting insight into health in the eighteenth century from a paper by Sally Osborn - here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ are now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here. #health #europe #eighteenthcentury -
Luxury shopping in eighteenth-century Paris
- January 7, 2023
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Very readable and informative account of luxury shopping in eighteenth-century Paris by Chloe Prince - here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here. #paris #shopping #eighteenthcentury #luxury
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