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Packing up copies of Transactions to send to @SamJohnsonSoc members this week. The Cathedral Close was looking pretty lovely. 🥰
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Digital proofs of the new design for the @SamJohnsonSoc journal, Transactions. Inspired in part by some of the beautiful print produced by @EngelsbergIdeas. Original artwork by Heather Horsley.
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Christmas has arrived at Dr Johnson's House! Celebrate the season and explore the home of Samuel Johnson in all its holiday charm ✨🕯
We are open Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm.
drjohnsonshouse.org/visit
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One of my favourite biographies - the life and times of the charming and clubbable friend of Dr Johnson, the composer and man of letters Charles Burney (father of novelist and diarist Fanny Burney), by Percy Scholes. Two volumes, illustrated, 1948. .@SamJohnsonSoc have you read these delightful books? – at Hyde Heath, South East
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Johnson breathes his last ... Fanny Burney's moving account of Johnson's last hours. @SamJohnsonSoc xitter.cf/MagisterWalker/status/… – at Hyde Heath, South East
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Marking Remembrance November. Hear all about how Dr Johnson's House survived the Blitz and our social club for 'the heroes with the grimy faces' - the Auxiliary Fire Service.
Free Talks with Admission
Every Wednesday during November at 2.30pm
drjohnsonshouse.org/post/dr-…
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"The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling a crown to a beggar with the intention to break his head, and he picks it p and buys victuals with it, the physical effect is good; but with respect to me the action is very wrong."
Samuel Johnson.
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Learn about the life of Francis Barber, resident of 17 Gough Square and England's first known Black school master.
Every Wednesday at 2.30pm this October
Talks are free with your admission ticket 🎟️
Read more on our website.
drjohnsonshouse.org/post/fra…
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At a meeting of @SamJohnsonSoc last night we were talking about how (apart from Dr J) we need more Joseph Addison in our lives. He spent his youth in Lichfield and there’s a memorial to his dad in the Cathedral. I love Addison’s Spectator essays. 📚
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Our #ThrowBackThursday for this week. Thrale Road in Streatham c.1912
(John W Brown and Photo Courtesy Frances Partridge Collection)
#Streathamhistory
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Join us in celebrating Samuel Johnson’s birthday, brought to you by @SamuelJohnsonBM.🎉 Grab a free slice of cake while you can! 🍰#SamuelJohnson #LiteraryHistory
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Return to the Guildhall where the King and the Immortal Memory are toasted with cups of tea. – at Lichfield, England
Samuel Johnson's birthday celebrations in Lichfield. You're nothing without a tricorn. @SamJohnsonSoc
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Samuel Johnson's birthday celebrations in Lichfield. You're nothing without a tricorn. @SamJohnsonSoc – at Lichfield, England
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Anniversary of planting Johnson's Willow Tree: #WednesdayWillow #trees #Willow #naturalhistory #Litchfield #SamuelJohnson #landscape #JohnsonsWillow #rural #Staffordshire #StowePool @SamJohnsonSoc #November #historic #treestudy; grosvenorprints.com/stock.ph…
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A reminder this is on this evening. A Black History month talk on Francis Barber at St Leonard's Church #Streatham at 7:30pm. Booking not required #StreathamHistory #BlackHistory #FrancisBarber #StreathamPark
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Saturday night at the Johnson Supper in historic Lichfield Guildhall with Chair of @SamJohnsonSoc and fellow NHS NED Phil Jones
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Lichfield to celebrate Samuel Johnson’s 314th birthday
lichfieldlive.co.uk/2023/09/…
#EnjoyStaffs #Staffordshire @VisitLichfield @SamJohnsonSoc @SamuelJohnsonBM
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Am happy to hear that more than 500 people have pre-registered for this free online event tonight. And it's on Samuel Johnson's (Old Style) birthday too. 8pm GMT/3pm Eastern with the brilliant Richard Cohen.
JOIN TODAY at 3pm EST 👉 bit.ly/3rlgcT5
@AncestorExperts hosts a webinar with @@petermoore, historian and other of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness' to explore the origins of the most iconic words and concepts in American history.
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#OTD 18th September 1709, Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield,
Stayed at the Thrale's House, "Streatham Park" where he had his own apartment. He worshipped at St Leonard's Church
Image James Barry ©National Portrait Gallery, NPG x1185 #StreathamHistory #DrJohnson
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Exciting news! "A letter written by the 18th century renowned writer Dr Samuel Johnson [to Sophia Thrale, daughter of Hester Thrale Piozzi] has been "tucked away" in a cupboard." bbc.com/news/uk-england-glou…