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Hace 20 horas · The unsavoury aspects of a place like Houghton Hall – built on land inherited by the first prime minister, Robert Walpole, possible in part thanks to profits from selling shares in the South Sea ...
Hace 11 horas · Standing proudly in the middle of a room of 18th- and 19th-century English heritage portrait paintings at Houghton Hall in Norfolk is a burnished terracotta vessel. The work, by Magdalene Odundo, stuns by its simplicity. As the bygone residents of the Palladian mansion depicted in the paintings gaze down supercilious, Odundo’s Untitled ...
Hace 2 días · Walpole's opponents in the 1730s in the "country party" and in the American colonies developed an alternative vision of empire that would be "Protestant, commercial, maritime and free". Walpole did not ensure the promised "liberty" to the colonies because he was intent on subordinating all colonial economic activity to the mercantilist advantages of the metropolis.
Hace 2 días · Horace Walpole, born in 1717, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and politician. He was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister. Educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, Walpole went on to write several essays, biographies, and letters.
Hace 1 día · A letter from Ernest Shackleton to a supporter, written from South Georgia on the eve of his final departure on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, was offered at Charles Miller’s (24% buyer’s premium) latest Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art sale. Ernest Shackleton letter sent from South Georgia in 1914, sold for £ ...
Hace 1 día · The historic Grade I listed residence was built in 1722 for Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Surrounded by 1,000 acres of parkland, ...
Hace 3 días · The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the following recipients of Fellowships and Travel Grants for 2024-25. The fellowship year runs from June 1 through May 31. Beginning this year, Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship and Travel Grant applications for the 2025-26 fellowship year will be accepted beginning June 1, 2024, and the deadline will be November 1, 2024.
