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Dr Ruth Larsen

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Historian; co-author of Mistress, published by @YaleBooks. Aristocrats, architecture and americanos.

 Derby, England
Joined May 2015
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It was exciting to see this in @gowerst_books today. You can find out more about this @YaleBooks publication, via yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300…
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The lovely sight of author copies! amazon.com/Spirit-British-Co…
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Fifth visit to ‘Wright of Derby, From the Shadows’, and more convinced than ever he’s one of the all-time greats.
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RHS Digital Collections | View | RHS Plant Collector Archive - papers and journeys of twelve 19th century plant collectors now digitised and online collections.rhs.org.uk/view/… #twitterstorians #gardenhistory #travel
RHS Plant Collector Archive - 19th century papers

RHS Plant Collector Archive - 19th century papers

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Steve Tibble@DrSteveTibble13 Nov 2025
📚@YaleBooks is having a fabulous promotion for November only… 🥳50% off all my books! Order now and use the promo code FIFTY at check out 💌Free UK postage from yalebooks.co.uk Follow the link below and finish your Christmas shopping early!👇 yalebooks.co.uk/search-resul…
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This looks very useful for those of us who are working with documents discussing historical travel. Viabundus 2 is an online map of long-distance routes in late medieval and early modern Europe (1350-1650) landesgeschichte.uni-goettin… h/t @yvonneseale.bsky.social #twitterstorians
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'The Researchers.' (1970) An interesting addition to this work by William Roberts' is the inclusion of the pink-ish cover of 'Blast,' the short-lived magazine of the Vorticist movement which was referred to by its editor Ezra Pound as the 'great magenta cover'd opusculus.'
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ISWE@YstadauCymru11 Sep 2025
We’re delighted to announce the publication of Dr Shaun Evans’s new book! Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates: Gentry, Culture and Society, c.1770-1920 See more at: boydellandbrewer.com/book/co… @boydellbrewer
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For UK readers, mark your calender for Oct. 17, where award-winning Professor Andrew O’Shaughnessy delivers a fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event @RAIOxford! rai.ox.ac.uk/event/a-fresh-l…
Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

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Brambly Hedge@bramblyhedge_5 Sep 2025
This weekend marks 45 years since the first publication of Brambly Hedge Autumn Story back in September 1980.
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It was exciting to see this in @gowerst_books today. You can find out more about this @YaleBooks publication, via yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300…
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‘It has been destroyed beyond repair, not by the effect of gunfire, but by a deliberate act of vandalism’: Britain’s long lost great houses that live on only inside the Country Life archive countrylife.co.uk/architectu…
‘It has been destroyed beyond repair, not by the effect of gunfire, but by a deliberate act of...

‘It has been destroyed beyond repair, not by the effect of gunfire, but by a deliberate act of...

In the wake of the First and Second World Wars, some of Britain’s greatest houses were lost forever — to extinct familial lines, financial woes, neglect, vandalism and tragic accidents. Thankfully,...

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50 years ago, the English country house seemed headed for extinction. Instead it was the start of a new golden age countrylife.co.uk/architectu…
50 years ago, the English country house seemed headed for extinction. Instead it was the start of a...

50 years ago, the English country house seemed headed for extinction. Instead it was the start of a...

Rather than perceiving the mid 20th century as a troubled period in the history of the country house, John Martin Robinson argues that it was perhaps one of the most interesting, unexpected and...

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#GawthorpeHall's ghost garden is back, showing through the main lawn. The original photograph was taken around 1910, but the parterre was expensive to maintain. If you want to see it make sure you visit before it rains! tiny.cc/GawthorpeHall
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Unusually, St Bartholomew's gatehouse in London looks older today than it did in a photograph from the early 1900s. 👀 Its Tudor frontage (right) was hidden (left) until a bomb from a German Zeppelin raid in 1917 uncovered its original timber. It was then fully restored in 1932.
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Joel Herman@joel__herman16 Apr 2025
My article on the destabilization of the British Empire in the eighteenth century has been published open access in the @HistoricalJnl. I argue that we need to think more about the imperial transformations of the public sphere. bit.ly/3XXW86z
The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c....

The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c....

The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765 - Volume 69 Issue 1

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Anyone missing a kangaroo? 🔍🦘 This letter, unearthed from our archives, was sent 124 years ago to Mr Richardson Carr, the estate manager at Tring Park.
An old letter with many marks and stamps on it, reading “11th Nov 1901. Dear Sir, There is a Kangaroo astray in Penn Wood. And it struck me that it may possibly have escaped from Lord Rothschild's Park, and you would be glad to know its whereabouts. Yours faithfully, John Widdowson.”

ALT An old letter with many marks and stamps on it, reading “11th Nov 1901. Dear Sir, There is a Kangaroo astray in Penn Wood. And it struck me that it may possibly have escaped from Lord Rothschild's Park, and you would be glad to know its whereabouts. Yours faithfully, John Widdowson.”

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Claire Hubbard-Hall will be drawing on private and previously classified documents to tell the story of women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence who had their contributions written out of history @spyhistory Link in our bio to buy tickets.
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Did you know the iconic white-tie-and-cape look for #Dracula in the 1931 film was premiered in Derby in 1924? Find out more in our latest blog: recordoffice.wordpress.com/2… #Archive30 #SoundAndVision
Derby and Dracula

Derby and Dracula

When you imagine a vampire, and Count Dracula in particular, what do you think of? Chances are, the figure in your mind’s eye bares little resemblance to Dracula as described by Bram Stoker i…

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