Dr Greg Roberts
@d-profundis
Historian of Regency era (1788-1837) Researching William Long-Wellesley, celebrity, and the fall of Wanstead House University of Westminster Alumni Londonist 🔶 Orient Fan 🔶 Eejit 🔶 Irishman Blog - www.wickedwilliam.com
A winters tale from a #London tavern 7th January 1822, a sailor describes his adventures to an enthralled audience
Its June 1833 and the sun has set on the Duke of #Wellington's public life. Here he is back in civilian clothes being led off to pasture leaving his sackful of military and political honours behind
Life in London A view in St Bartholemew's Close Smithfield #London (1850) looking towards Hall's Coffee House, where ale can be purchased by the pot-load. By John Wykeham Archer
A view of Staple Inn at Holborn on a bright sunny day in #London by John Wykeham Archer (1851)
A Camp Scene from the outskirts of #London 1784 - it was a popular pastime to visit army encampments and watch soldiers mincing about cutting each other’s hair and prettying themselves up
Looking across the wide open expanse of Bloomsbury Square, towards Bedford House, #London by Edward Dayes (1787)
Dancing was one of the key measurements of refined civility in Georgian England, therefore it was common for elite women to engage masters to improve their dancing skills - so as to preserve/enhance their social standing. Published in #London (1768)
'Entrance from Mile End or Whitechapel Turnpike' by Thomas Rowlandson (1798) #MileEnd #Whitechapel #EastLondon
OTD 1810 - Rowlandson's satire: Procession of the Cod Company from St Giles' to Billingsgate; with the River Thames behind #London
Your comprehensive guide to getting out of London by stagecoach in 1819 wp.me/p4jj2g-fn
George Scharf's simply beautiful study of three milk-carriers at work in #London (1818), with a draftsman helping himself to a jug of milk as two of the maids chatter, whilst a flower seller stands nearby ready for the day's business
A coal wagon en route to #London (1821) - seen in the distance in its polluted glory
6th November 1791 satire of the Duke of Clarence standing immersed to the waist in the contents of a large, cracked, chamber-pot. Mrs Jordan, scantily draped, reclines seductively, as he says "I shall be lost in the Jordan"; Thus began a 20 year relationship
A view of #Leytonstone murderess Elizabeth Jeffries & accomplice (man-servant) John Swan - on their way to the gallows at Newgate (1752) Her crime was to murder uncle and guardian, Joseph Jefferies, who had sexually abused her from youth. She took 15 mins to die on the rope
The loss of the Fairlop Oak in 1820 was a blow for Epping Forest, but its trunk was used to build the pulpit at St Pancras Church (1822)
A beaux trap: A pretty girl saunters past a house at Cavendish Square, holding up a parasol, & raising her skirt, showering mud upon a leering footman but captivating her target -the rich old git at the window above. Notice the incredibly penis-like bollard #London May 8th 1818
Saw this bust at Chatsworth House yesterday and it is annoyingly familiar. I feel certain it is a famous politician from the Regency era. Can anybody identify him? Thanks in hope and anticipation
The magnificent pair of Tylney-Long chandeliers originally from #Wanstead House now the centrepiece of the marble hall at Chatsworth House
1803 Gillray satire of Talleyrand restraining #Napoleon from going after the English Bull across the channel behind the English Fleet
Walked through Chatsworth park to Bakewell yesterday. That was the icing on the cake
Next time you are strolling around Piccadilly #London remember Sir Thomas Clarges, who was responsible for persuading Charles II to return to England as monarch in 1660, and lived at this splendid mansion where Clarges Street now lies
A totally pissed up Charles II getting harassed by the dog as he departs from his good mate Sir Robert Vyner's house in Cornhill (1680)
Political satire from March 1800 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Sir Francis Burdett stand behind Charles James Fox, urging him to skittle out William Pitt's unpopular Government
A most enjoyable and well-attended book launch yesterday for Geraldine Roberts’ new and wonderful epic ‘The Rebel and the Peacemaker’
Un nouveau livre sur l'homme qui a posé la première pierre de l'Université Queen's en 1841 : l'histoire de Mary et Charles Bagot, qui ont également instauré un gouvernement responsable au Canada et créé sa frontière sud avec les États-Unis. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818219/t…
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
Another splendid view of the Seven Sisters copse of trees, on the green in the parish of #Tottenham High Cross, north of #London (1818)