Tag: Benjamin Franklin
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Prime Minister Shelburne, Disliked, Not Trusted, Therefore Doomed
Shelburne was intelligent, able, wise and had great political knowledge, but he was detached from both the Whigs and Tories…that he had earned the incurable dislike and distrust of everyone important. His nickname was ‘Malagrida’ – after a notorious Portuguese Jesuit conspirator. So, not good then, but should have been.…
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Recognise Any of These Eighteenth Century Wigs?
I’m a bald man, have been since I saw a reflection of myself, aged 28, in a shop window in High Wycombe and had a barber shave it all off the next day. I’m fine with it (ughhh!), but it would be nice to have a Barnet*. If I was…