Rory Muir
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Rory Muir
@RoryMuir3
Historian. Life of Wellington. War against Napoleon. Regency Britain. New book Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen out in February 2024 pub by Yale
Adelaide Hills, Sth Australia Katılım Eylül 2018
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If you haven’t already, I would encourage you to make the jump to the blue skies platform and leave this turgid place behind - particularly if you are interested in history!
I’ve made a starter pack of Seventeenth Centuryists and the #17thC feed. Mon over!
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According to the Wiki daily rundown, no 'event' of moment happened #OnThisDay between 1439 and 1835.
Pretty sure we can improve on that.
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@GeorgianLords Ah, thank you - I’m pleased that the marriage was happy, but it’s an important reminder that even so there could be a lot of sadness to endure
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@RoryMuir3 Remarkably well for the period, though there was the sadness of the majority of their children not surviving childhood, and the heir suffering from severe mental health problems.
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"Such a husband as Lord Willoughby, is a great prize in a lottery where there are many blanks..."
Lord Guilford expressing his delight on his daughter's marriage to John, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke...
Image (c) Getty Museum
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@LuElla_DAmico I’m so pleased. It was great fun to research and write.
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@RoryMuir3 Enjoyed this book more than I expected! The level of research and attention to detail was outstanding! I have so many cool anecdotes to share now after reading.
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Happy to have this review of @RoryMuir3's excellent Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen out in the world. Pause for a little romance today, my friends, and read about love in Jane Austen's time.
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Look in the bottom right 🤣
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@GraemeCallister 's threads are always fascinating for their in-depth research which give a unique view, at scale, of the fate of common soldiers beyond the (dark or golden) myths and legends. Check them out!
Dr Graeme Callister@GraemeCallister
On 2 December 1805, the day of the Battle of Austerlitz, the French 33e Ligne of Davout’s famous III Corps numbered 2300 soldiers and sous officiers, to include all men on the regiment’s books. This thread explains what became of these men in the decade of war that followed. 1/
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@Hindu_Stan easier to leave stuff out of the main text, because you’re not scrapping it completely. Also (like putting in references) it uncovers lots of points where you’ve got something slightly wrong and gives you a chance to correct it before the concrete has set.
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@Hindu_Stan I write a parallel text with lots of quotes from both primary and secondary sources, talking about where they contradict one another and going into the weeds that can never make it into the main text. Mostly so that it is there for me to refer to later, but it makes it cont.
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@RoryMuir3 And that was after a healthy percentage of conscripts had already absconded en route to their depots - up to half in the very worst of contingents!
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Ever wondered how Napoleon’s army evolved in the Camp of Boulogne (1803-5), before it began its conquest of Europe?
Here are some stats I compiled from one regiment – the 33e Ligne – that show how it changed between the declaration of war (May 1803) & Austerlitz (Dec 1805). 1/
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@GraemeCallister Very useful confirmation of a common assumption, that troops were most likely to desert early (often very early) in their service.
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Yet dividing it up this way hides the fact that many of the deserters from the pre-May 1803 regiment had only joined a few weeks before war broke out.
In all, 325 of the 379 deserters absconded in the first year of service – and 94 didn’t see out their first ten days! 6/
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@Hindu_Stan If only there was a magic solution to the problems caused by word limits…
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@RoryMuir3 Am clinging to the hope that cutting out the full references is going tosave me but that will only work if I have used a source multiple times and I don't think I have in many instances.
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Crap! Had to add another chapter - 'to provide context' was hoping it would be short as I'm already ove rthe limit by 30,000 words... it isn't. Better get chopping!
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@WhigDuke @QSNeurosurgery @bernardsunley So sorry that you’ve been so ill and hope your recovery is smooth from here on
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Hello everyone!! Have been off ill for a while and now in rehab after major surgery. Want to say a huge thank you to the incredible staff at @QSNeurosurgery and @bernardsunley for their wonderful care!! Now for the watchful eye of Dr Tommy!! #ThankYou
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@theknightirish @oxfamgb What a good haul - the Coombs looks especially interesting
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Ok, so it happened again: 9 heavy books arrived simultaneously. The postie is going off me. Nonetheless it an epic haul including 6 from @oxfamgb 📚
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@GeorgianLords Could the letter be misdated? Otherwise just another example of the oddness of people.
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Not impossible, but...
On 7 October 1761 Lord Willoughby was at Compton Verney in Warwickshire writing to George Lucy about dogs; the next day he was in London in time to marry Louisa North at the Audley Street Chapel.
Cutting it fine?
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