On this day 28 years ago, at roughly the time I’m posting this, my wife and I were dancing to Neil Young’s _Harvest Moon_ as the first dance at our wedding 💒❤️
Category: OnThisDay
Posted on July 8, 2023
8th July, 1822 – The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died on this day when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia, Italy. #OnThisDay
Posted on November 24, 2022
🐢 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published OnThisDay, 24th November 1859 📚
Posted on July 8, 2022
Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of Spezia.
#OnThisDay
Posted on June 4, 2022
>OtD 4 Jun 1913 socialist suffragette Emily Davison was seriously injured while trying to grab the King’s horse during the Derby at Epsom and died 4 days later: the 1st martyr of the movement.
Posted on October 31, 2021
John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father worked in a livery stable at the Swan and Hoop inn. A small blue plaque at the site reads
>In a house on this site the “Swan and Hoop” John Keats, Poet, Was born 1795
Posted on October 31, 2020
John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795. And on 31st October 1820 the 25 year old poet also first set foot on Italian soil after 35 days at sea and 10 in quarantine. Keats-Shelley Memorial Association podcast 🔗
Posted on August 4, 2020
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay, 4th August 1792.
Posted on July 8, 2020
The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia.
Posted on April 7, 2020
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.