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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Wasteground with Houses, Paddington' (1970–72) by Lucian Freud (Garden Museum)

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TRE - Talk Radio Europe @tre.radio · 06/07/2026

Tune in for 'Let's Talk' with Giles Brown - live from 10.00CET. Geraldine Roberts' 'The Rebel & the Peacemaker: The Incredible True Story of Mary + Charles Bagot', Brendan Cullen's 'The Desert Swimmer', and Benji Wilson's 'Rate This Book: How Star Ratings Took Over the World'

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My talk went well last night. It’s nice to get back behind a microphone Thanks to all who attended #wabsteadfringe

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks a lot. I’ll keep an eye on this one

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A #WansteadFringe Production… Wanstead Goes To Hollywood Featuring Dr Greg Roberts at Wanstead Curtain on Monday 14 Sept 2026 @ 7-30pm Learn how 3 Wanstead locals inspired a movie that was to change the course of the Second World War

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A police officer on duty at his fixed post in George Lane South Woodford c.1907 Above him is a sign for the railway station #Woodford #Redbridge #Essex

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hugo and Gatsby are fine to stay for a few days

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No Room At The Inn? Only the very desperate would consider booking into the Maidenhead Inn, Dyott Street St Giles - known as a “liquor-shop and public-house of the vilest description, the haunt of beggars & desperate characters”. Drawn by George Scharf prior to demolition #London (1817)

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A winters tale from a #London tavern 7th January 1822, a sailor describes his adventures to an enthralled audience

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A view of Staple Inn at Holborn on a bright sunny day in #London by John Wykeham Archer (1851)

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Looking across the wide open expanse of Bloomsbury Square, towards Bedford House, #London by Edward Dayes (1787)

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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)

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

'Entrance from Mile End or Whitechapel Turnpike' by Thomas Rowlandson (1798) #MileEnd #Whitechapel #EastLondon

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

OTD 1810 - Rowlandson's satire: Procession of the Cod Company from St Giles' to Billingsgate; with the River Thames behind #London

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Your comprehensive guide to getting out of London by stagecoach in 1819 wp.me/p4jj2g-fn

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A coal wagon en route to #London (1821) - seen in the distance in its polluted glory

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A close up of John Nash's beautiful archway at #Highgate, near #London (1814) with a stagecoach wending its way northwards

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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)

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Wow - seems very out of kilter with the place it is set in Chatsworth House so I’m inclined to stick with the Canning theory

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You may like to follow Canning in this fabulous new book by Geraldine Roberts - about the lives of Sir Charles & Lady Mary Bagot www.augustbooks.co/books/the-re...

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The Rebel and the Peacemaker by Geraldine Roberts | August Books

Hardcover and Ebook

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Thanks Rachel This makes sense as the Cannjng bust is situated just below two large portraits of Czar Nicholas and his wife - who the 6th Earl visited to attend their coronations at St Petersburg in January 1826 - probably at the behest of then Foreign Secretary George Canning

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yes but it’s the tufty sideburns which made me doubtful.

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I thought it was Canning but when I googled Canning busts it doesn’t look much like him!

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The magnificent pair of Tylney-Long chandeliers originally from #Wanstead House now the centrepiece of the marble hall at Chatsworth House

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1803 Gillray satire of Talleyrand restraining #Napoleon from going after the English Bull across the channel behind the English Fleet

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Walked through Chatsworth park to Bakewell yesterday. That was the icing on the cake

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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)

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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TRE - Talk Radio Europe @tre.radio · 06/07/2026

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The cone is merely a metaphor for the current anti-cultural sentiments

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FWP2009 @fwp2009.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Geraldine Roberts, author of acclaimed "The Angel and the Cad", about the disastrous marriage of Wanstead heiress Catherine Tylney-Long to Hon. William Wellesley Pole, has launched her new book about one of William's sisters who, with her husband, left a more positive legacy -

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A most enjoyable and well-attended book launch yesterday for Geraldine Roberts’ new and wonderful epic ‘The Rebel and the Peacemaker’

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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…

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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@historicacanada.bsky.social Check out this new book about the life & marriage of Sir Charles Bagot who introduced responsible government to Canada & also created the longest undefended international border in the world The Rebel and the Peacemaker: augustbooks.co/books/the-rebe… via @canelo_co

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Miloš Miljković @miljko.org · 16/04/2025

“Through mutual understanding and good will the policy set forth by Richard Rush and Charles Bagot in this treaty has resulted in an unfortified boundary between Canada and the United States” At Old Fort Niagara, with Toronto in the distance.

A large stone plaque overlooking Lake Ontario under a cloudy sky.

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Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations to Geraldine Roberts on the release of The Rebel and the Peacemaker! Banished to the New World after rumours of adultery, Charles and Mary Bagot went on to soothe Anglo-American tensions and lay the groundwork for modern global diplomacy. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FTF8DXMD

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Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Why write history? "Non-fiction books are crucial for preserving stories about women and men who make ground-breaking changes in the world," says Geraldine Roberts She reflects on the experience of researching her new book, The Rebel and the Peacemaker, at historiamag.com/joys-challenges-hist-nonfic

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