@EdinburghSWINC

Edinburgh-based network for researchers and enthusiasts in the field of Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century. Tweets by @LucyMajella

 Edinburgh
swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/
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From today, we are open to public and you can come and see our 'Emma at 200' exhibition! #EmmaAt200 chawtonhouse.org/?p=61311
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#JaneAusten goes Global @ChawtonHouse from today! visit-hampshire.co.uk/whats-… @JaneAustenHouse near #Alton #Hampshire
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This photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson has just come to light via Ebay. ebay.co.uk/itm/Carte-de-visi…
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Literary #Edinburgh is hoppin' this Easter @ByLeavesWeLive @ScotStoryCentre @TradFestEd @EdSciFest bit.ly/literaryevents
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#OTD 1811 Shelley writes to his friend Hogg who's finding Shropshire depressing "The scenery excites mournful ideas. I am sorry to hear it’
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Our map collection is one of the biggest in the world - start exploring today! maps.nls.uk/
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#OTD 1815 John Murray introduces Byron to Walter Scott
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'Writing the North' focus on #Orkney & #Shetland, 25 April: @ScotStoryCentre @EdinburghSWINC supported by the RSE ow.ly/L7kh7
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#Edinburgh19thC #Seminar is today! 4.30 @ IASH for #19thC papers on #CITIES and charity. All welcome, wine to follow. Please RT!
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#ArchitectureMW The Great Gallery in 1850, part of the University Galleries which became the Ashmolean #MuseumWeek
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Are you ready for Friday's #SolarEclipse? Got your 18th-century "Eclipseometers" at the ready? mhs.ox.ac.uk/collections/imu…
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Edward Belcher (died #OTD) collected many #Inuit objects in the 1820s like these ivory shoe-grips for walking on ice.
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#OTD 1817 Keats travels to the Isle of Wight, where he writes the sonnet 'On the Sea' and begins 'Endymion' bit.ly/1u0D1W1
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The Rage: Queen Caroline vs Maria Anne #Fitzherbert-fight over George IV 1794 #georgiv
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#MensFashion Interesting to see how panels were embroidered & pieced, c. 1760s #Silk #Spangles @metmuseum #dapper
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Earliest known illustrated example of a witch on a broomstick, 1451, Hexenflug der Vaudoises (Flight of the Witches)
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'Tis strange but true; for truth is always strange Stranger than fiction:if it could be told How much wd novels gain by the exchange!' Byron
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King John’s teeth and thumb bone to go on display in our #MagnaCarta exhibition - bit.ly/mc-worcester @BLMedieval
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Join us TODAY for the next #Edinburgh19thC #Seminar on #THINGS- 4.30pm@ IASH,All welcome-wine to follow. #materialculture #steampunk #relics
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Thinking about pearls and #jewellery work today with this @NtlMuseumsScot beauty: nms.scran.ac.uk/database/rec… … #craft #history #pearls
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