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Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102)

CHE68504 Country Round Dixton Manor, c.1725 (oil on canvas) (detail of 18102) by English School, (18th century); The Cheltenham Trust and Cheltenham Borough Council; (add.info.: Dixton Harvesters;); PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR NON EDITORIAL USAGE; English, out of copyright.
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A Scene From Evangeline

A scene of Acadians (French settlers of the Canadian Maritime Provinces) as they dance and frolic to a fiddler's tune while a clergyman looks on in an illustration (after F.O.C. Darley) of a scene from an edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, published in 1893. The poem, which recounts the expulsion of the Acadians from the Maritimes after the Seven Years War, was first published in 1847 and while Longfellow had no connections to the Acadians his poem became a part of their collective culture. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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William Kempe dancing the Morris

William Kempe, or Kemp, dancing the Morris.
English actor and dancer specialising in comic roles and one of original players in early dramas by William Shakespeare. Roles associated with his name include Falstaff

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