Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Modern History’
Pierre Louis (‘Henri’) Grevedon (1776-1860), via the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: ? Public domain.
Henry Maudslay, the great engineer, had seen enough apprentices to last him a lifetime.
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By Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) 1750
Byron felt compelled to set the record straight after it was alleged that he had swum the Hellespont the easy way.
© Roger Templeman, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
When farmhand and lay preacher George Loveless was convicted of conspiracy, both charge and sentence made the country gasp.
By John Morgan (1822–1885), via Buckinghamshire County Museum and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In 1844, Daniel O’Connell was hauled before a Dublin court to answer charges of seditious conspiracy, and he didn’t stand a chance.
By Daderot, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Scottish scholar and clergyman Gilbert Burnet sets before us a picture of a King who was something of a Solomon in his virtues and his vices.
In April 1653, Oliver Cromwell learnt that Parliament was planning to prevent him from packing the Commons with yes-men.