Um….. Jeremy Brett at No. 10 Downing Street with Margaret Thatcher! !!!
I slightly suspect it’s more likely to be Mrs. Thatcher visiting the set of Number 10, but there you go. It’s a spooky image either way.
A quick glimpse of the Pitt memorial at Westminster Abbey during Tuesday’s Coronation anniversary service.
How William Pitt the Younger celebrated his 254th birthday.
I gatecrashed his party and these visuals are proof of my escapade.Happy birthday you drunkard!
Lol.
You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take from me those habitual and warm regards for the prosperity of Great Britain which constitute the honour, the happiness, the pride of my life, and which, I trust, death alone can extinguish.
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| — | William Pitt the Younger, in the Commons 21 February 1783 (via ladycashasatiger) |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0tHmYEaqok&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Quite a fun listen, although interesting to note that I have seen him give the same talk on two separate occasions and there was virtually no difference in content (I’m guessing he’s got it pretty much memorised now!).
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Have to agree - I think Pitt was well past his sell by date by the time he died. He’d dominated politics for so long, even when he was out of office, that he’d become something of a blockage. How might things have turned out if he’d died in 1801, instead of resigning and hanging around for another five years? Useless to speculate, I know - but intriguing!
Greatest Speeches in History - William Pitt The Younger (by Alexandre Litterae)
Oh, to have been there.
On a rather lighter note, here’s a slightly altered version of Karl Anton Hickel’s painting of Pitt addressing the House of Commons. It always struck me that this was what Pitt seemed really to be doing. Apologies for the quality but I have lost the original file so this is a photograph of an ancient printout!
To distract myself… a picture of Pitt on a horse
I used to do a lot of drawing when I was younger (I think the last picture I drew was in 2005). I’ve always intended to go back to it, but I haven’t yet found the time. Below is my version of the print of Pitt the Younger as Colonel Commandant of the Cinque Ports Volunteers (the original is at Walmer Castle). I drew this for a website I set up on the history of the CPV, but made a coloured version for myself just for a laugh. I rediscovered it this morning.
