Emily Brand

@EJBrand
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Historian, author, genealogist. 18thcenturyist. Biographer of the Byrons hiding out in revolutionary France.
📚The Fall of the House of Byron

#Histodons www.emilybrand.co.uk
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Show threadEmily BrandNov 6, 2022
@wuthering_alice I can't even remember what site I used but it was almost unjustifiably expensive 😂
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@DrLindseyFitzharris "I couldn't possibly start taking these notes until I have the perfect book!" ... Procrastination at its finest
Emily BrandNov 6, 2022

So you’re telling me that you *don’t* create stationery to match your historical sources? … that’s just sad 🤓

Book: 18th-century erotic libelle attacking the duchesse de Polignac
Portrait: detail from a portrait of Polignac by Vigee Lebrun, c.1783

#histodons #books #oldbooks #history

Emily BrandNov 6, 2022
@timholtwilson that’s such a fantastic find, I was about to ask if you’d identified the artist but no need
Emily BrandNov 6, 2022
Tim Holt-WilsonNov 6, 2022

New to Mastodon so I'm flying a kite here - greetings (from Suffolk, UK) to all #mastodontisti !

#18thcentury #history #art @EJBrand

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@timholtwilson oh I LOVE these doodles!
Show threadEmily BrandNov 5, 2022
@JubalBarca noted, thank you!
Emily BrandNov 5, 2022

Day 2 on #histodons & still have no idea what’s going on

So here’s a picture of two 18th-century women balancing angry animals on their massive bums 🤷‍♀️ Don't say I don't treat you

(‘The Back-Biters, or High Bum-Fiddle Pig Bow Wow', 1786) #18thcentury #history #art

Show threadEmily BrandNov 5, 2022
@jdarnold ah thank you - and that’s a great book!
Show threadEmily BrandNov 5, 2022
@berenice thank you so much! I wish my account gave me the option to ‘toot’ but I only seem to have the boring option of ‘publish’ 🧐