The ton is alive with the season once more...with the last few episodes of #bridgertons3 dropping today, which outfits will you covet from the series? Whilst they're not 'fancy', maybe they'll provide inspiration if you're heading to the Fancy Ball on Sat.
#DressingFancyBath
Do you like dressing fancy? We're delighted to announce a programme of #DressingFancyBath starting on 14 Jun. Thanks to a research project with @fancyhistorian, we'll be holding two-weeks of events all about fancy dress from Georgian times to today. https://t.co/uYFzHP5hBZ.
#OnThisDay 1777 John Wilkes was honoured by being asked to assist the master of ceremonies at a ball in the Bath Upper Assembly Rooms.
The event comprised 'a well-dressed crowd of near 900 persons' though 'very few persons of real fashion'...
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"Friday is the grand ball for the lower rooms [at Bath], & all the pretty misses are busy in preparing the caps, which are to be set at us that night. Luckily old father Time has put me out of their power"
Wilkes to Polly #OTD (Wednesday) 1779
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"We had a most superb ball at the upper rooms [in Bath] last night... & the minuets are now danced 3 deep, so that they are finished in an hour & a half. Miss Wroughton bears the palm here"
Wilkes to his daughter on the ball held #OTD 1778
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Bath & the Marriage Mart in the 1790s: A discussion of Rachel Bynoth’s Presentation at the Bath 250 Virtual Conference | Jane Austen's World https://t.co/km9vNrVEf2
📣 Call for Papers!
'Political Participation and Electoral Culture in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century'
Join us for a conference on 8 & 9 July 2022 at Newcastle University. Please submit your abstracts by 31 January 2022.
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Mary Delany on attending a ridotto in 1730:
"it is the most entertaining sort of assembly, because you are at liberty to wander about as much as you please, & there is dancing, tea, coffee, chocolate, & all sorts of sweetmeats."
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It was such a pleasure to recap the @bath250 conference for the report. Such wonderful papers and thoughts for the future. Take a look at the report below ⬇️
BATH250 conference: videos of all panels are now online for the next 2 wks, courtesy of the wonderful @mbayliss90. See below for links. Those registered for the conference shd receive an email with all links early next week. Programme here: https://t.co/MYBwJBivPZ
Oak Gall powder poured in two different types of mineral waters (Vals-Les-Bains, "Dominique" on the left, "Précieuse" on the right), Day #1
Preparing for my talk at "Fête de la Science" in 3 hours @Univ_Paris, celebrating science, 18thC style.
#FDS2021
We’re underway with our keynote speaker @JonathanFoyle who is busy assembling the architectural influences that created Bath’s Assembly Rooms, which opened 250 years ago to this day. #Bath250