Samantha Morton stars in brothel-based Georgian drama Harlots

Edit Belfast Telegraph 26 May 2016
Samantha Morton, Lesley Manville and Jessica Brown Findlay will star in a new brothel-based period drama titled Harlots. The drama will focus on Georgian London's most valuable commercial activity - sex - and is set to reveal the hidden history of the city's brothels. Share Go To ... "In 1760s London there were brothels on every corner run by women who were both enterprising and tenacious ... ....

'Downton Abbey,' 'Fantastic Beasts' stars cast in new Hulu, ITV brothel drama

Edit Mashable 26 May 2016
LOS ANGELES — Hulu is partnering up with UK's ITV Encore to bring brothel drama Harlots to viewers ... SEE ALSO ... “Written and produced by an award-winning creative team with an all-star cast, Harlots offers a unique perspective of life on the streets of 1760s London with fast-moving and action-packed storylines and strong lead characters," Maria Kyriacou, president of international for ITV Studios, said in a statement ... ....

First Fleet piano's new home in WA (Edith Cowan University)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
(Source. Edith Cowan University). Australia's first piano, which arrived on board the Sirius as part of the First Fleet in 1788, has found a new home at ECU's Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) ... a musician's view. 'This is an extraordinary gift to WAAPA and one that we are very excited about,' Professor Lancaster said ... The First Fleet piano is an English square piano, an instrument invented in the 1760s ... (noodl....

‘Roots’ star’s DNA revelation

Edit New York Post 26 May 2016
British-born actor Malachi Kirby is largely unknown in the US. That’s about to change. Kirby, 26, stars as Kunta Kinte in “Roots,” a four-part reboot of the landmark ABC miniseries premiering Monday night on History. Like its predecessor, “Roots” is based on Alex Haley’s sprawling novel chronicling his ancestor Kunta Kinte’s journey from West African warrior to being sold into slavery in 1760s Virginia ... Tell me about your DNA test ... No ... ....

Joel Savoy, Jesse Lege & the Cajun Country Revival

Edit Skiddle 24 May 2016
In true TalkingGigs style the band will explore and demonstrate the roots and history of Cajun music and culture with long-term afficionado and expert in Cajun culture Graham Breakwell - from the 1760s when up to 70 French families from the Pitou region set off across the Atlantic in search of a better life, washing up in Nova Scotia before being ......

Rare Music Collection on display at University (University of Sydney)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. University of Sydney) ... First and early editions of works by G. F. Handel dating from the 1720s to 1760s are on display, as well as a first edition vocal score of Mozart's Clemenza di Tito (c ... 1800-1806) ... Public permalinkhttp.//www.publicnow.com/view/B8BBF8AADCF0AC739000EC28F820A58650C0A695. (noodl....

The Awful Diseases on the Way

Edit The New York Review of Books 22 May 2016
Hosam Katan/Reuters. A health worker marking a child who has been given a polio vaccination, Aleppo, Syria, May 2014. Pandemics—the uncontrolled spread of highly contagious diseases across countries and continents—are a modern phenomenon ... major smallpox ... minor. Rahima and Ali survived ... A ... For centuries, cholera lived undisturbed in tiny crustaceans in the Bay of Bengal, until the arrival of the East India Company in the 1760s ... H....

WATCH: Radar probes for Burnside Plantation link to Revolutionary War

Edit Lehigh Valley 21 May 2016
George Washington stored here. That's the claim the stewards of Burnside Plantation in Bethlehem are hoping they can make ... "We've been looking to see if we can establish where the brick kiln was."  ... (Kurt Bresswein ... But recent studies by 90-year-old local historian Ralph Schwarz suggest Washington may have used a newer kiln, built in the 1760s on the Burnside property to be closer to a good source of clay ... MORE ... ....

How North-east granite paved the streets of London

Edit Scotsman 17 May 2016
IT WAS blasted from the land around Aberdeen, paved the streets of London and built a new generation of cities in grey sparkling stone ... Kemnay Quarries. Aberdeenshire. Sett-makers working in their individual huts, or scathies. PIC. British Geological Survey/NERC ... READ MORE ... She added ... The prosperity of the industry was sealed when in the 1760s when it was decided that granite from Aberdeen should be used to pave the streets of London ... ....

Letters Vote to reject dog beach diminishes Delray

Edit Palm Beach Post 17 May 2016
Dog-beach vote. diminishes Delray. A little bit of Delray Beach died on May 10, when city commissioners voted 3-2 against the Friends of Delray Dog Beach’s request for a dog-beach trial. It would have allowed residents to bring their dogs to a limited section of beach a few days a week for a few hours. Just as other South Florida communities have allowed for years ... Re. Gov. Rick Scott’s Industrial Age (1760s to 1800s) approach to education....

Union Hotel tops list of Hunterdon County's endangered sites

Edit NJ dot com 13 May 2016
A total of six buildings have been named to the 2016 list of Most Endangered Historic Historic Sites in Hunterdon County. Six buildings have been named to the 2016 list of Most Endangered Historic Historic Sites in Hunterdon County compiled by the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission ... Other buildings in Flemington include ... Abraham Bonnell established a tavern on the road from Brunswick to Easton in the 1760s ... In July 1776, Lt....

Former slaves reburied centuries later

Edit Times Union 12 May 2016
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Their exhumed bones point to the hard lives of slaves. arthritic backs, missing teeth, muscular frames. In death, they were wrapped in shrouds, buried in pine boxes and — over centuries — forgotten ... St. Agnes Cemetery donated a prime plot high on a hillside ... Their headstone is already set ... One rare glimpse from the Schuyler farm comes in the memoir of a woman who spent time there as a girl in the 1760s ... ....

Honor at last: Former slaves reburied centuries later

Edit The Associated Press 12 May 2016
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Their exhumed bones point to the hard lives of slaves. arthritic backs, missing teeth, muscular frames. In death, they were wrapped in shrouds, buried in pine boxes and - over centuries - forgotten ... St. Agnes Cemetery donated a prime plot high on a hillside ... Their headstone is already set ... One rare glimpse from the Schuyler farm comes in the memoir of a woman who spent time there as a girl in the 1760s ... ....
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