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Historical Hotties

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CharliesAngles · 13/09/2023 18:23

Who floats your boat?

I think Nathaniel Hawthorne (19th century American novelist) is a bit of a dish.

And if we’re going back even further, like a few millennia, then Alexander the Great gets my vote too 😆

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CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 19:09

EscapeTheCastle · 14/09/2023 10:50

Here is a young Alfred Lord Tennyson.
In this portrait as a young man at Cambridge you can just imagine knocking about with him and his creative pals and blushing as he passes you yet another deeply passionate poem he has written just for you.

That is a dashing portrait of him which I’ve never seen before, only the old bewhiskered, bearded photo.

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Magpiecomplex · 14/09/2023 19:11

I'm not a fan of facial hair, but young Cesare Borgia was worryingly attractive!

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CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 19:19

Augustus vs. Caesar

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DGRossetti · 14/09/2023 19:39

CharliesAngles · 14/09/2023 19:01

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - how his pal, fellow PRB founding member, William Holman Hunt, painted him…

😀

Flewtheflue · 14/09/2023 22:32

Young Buster Keaton 😍

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Charliescat · 14/09/2023 22:38

Raymond Asquith , there’s a book called Children of the Souls about a lot of Edwardian society people and their living fast dying young during WW1 and so many of the men were very very handsome .

Mirabai · 14/09/2023 22:41

Charliescat · 14/09/2023 22:38

Raymond Asquith , there’s a book called Children of the Souls about a lot of Edwardian society people and their living fast dying young during WW1 and so many of the men were very very handsome .

Yes he was beautiful and so very bright.

MotherOfGodWeeFella · 14/09/2023 22:48

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 13/09/2023 19:17

This bloke took a selfie in 1839. Got a kind of Mr.Darcy vibe going on:

He looks rather like David Morrissey to me.

WetBandits · 14/09/2023 22:56

scrivette · 14/09/2023 03:53

No one has mentioned Elvis yet - so good looking when he was young.

He was beautiful in his youth, and so was Priscilla! Their wedding photos are gorgeous.

stinkingbishop · 14/09/2023 23:00

My brain misread this as hot historians. I have a bit of a thing for The Rest Is History duo, despite their both having a face for podcasts...

Herne · 14/09/2023 23:12

William of Gloucester looks eerily like my first love when I was 18!!!

Herne · 14/09/2023 23:14

For me it's got to be Hermann Rorschach, he gives me Brad Pitt vibes!

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noodlezoodle · 14/09/2023 23:30

Yet another teenage history nerd that was in love with Prince Rupert. Did we all do history GCSE in 1990 by any chance?!

Also William Marshal <swoon>

UnctuousUnicorns · 14/09/2023 23:41

I had the hots for the young Prince Albert in my teens.

MagpieCastle · 15/09/2023 00:20

John Singer Sargent’s 1881 portrait of gynaecologist, Dr. Pozzi. And Moroni’s 1570 painting of a tailor.

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CarolinaInTheMorning · 15/09/2023 00:26

noodlezoodle · 14/09/2023 23:30

Yet another teenage history nerd that was in love with Prince Rupert. Did we all do history GCSE in 1990 by any chance?!

Also William Marshal <swoon>

No, too old for that plus American. But I did name a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Rupert.

UnctuousUnicorns · 15/09/2023 00:54

I also have a thing for Giovanni Arnolfini in that Van Eyck painting.

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UnctuousUnicorns · 15/09/2023 01:04

Also GD Tatiana, such mesmerising eyes... Mum was quite a looker too, perhaps not surprising what with having PA as a grandfather/great grandfather.

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ShinyPikachu · 15/09/2023 01:13

I've never been a moustache fan but I would have made an exception for Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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UnctuousUnicorns · 15/09/2023 01:22

tallsmallmum · 13/09/2023 22:07

Tsar Nicholas II and his lovely bottom springs to mind

I feel some research into the Tsar's Arse may be in order...

whatausername · 15/09/2023 01:48

UnctuousUnicorns · 15/09/2023 01:22

I feel some research into the Tsar's Arse may be in order...

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I fear you may forever sully your history. I'd be surprised if that wasn't a...niche...film

Gonksmum · 15/09/2023 01:53

Charles Rennie Mackintosh reminds me of the actor Bertie Carvel.

noodlezoodle · 15/09/2023 02:44

CarolinaInTheMorning · 15/09/2023 00:26

No, too old for that plus American. But I did name a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Rupert.

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Ah, I wondered if they'd written him into the curriculum in a very dashing way Grin

I am Anglo-American, been here ten years now <waves from the West Coast>

LadyOfTheCanyon · 15/09/2023 08:09

stinkingbishop · 14/09/2023 23:00

My brain misread this as hot historians. I have a bit of a thing for The Rest Is History duo, despite their both having a face for podcasts...

Ahhh I love them both! I live for Tom's Liam Neeson impressions...

Sadly my dad is no longer with us but I just wish he could have had this to listen to as he would have roared with laughter at a lot of what Dominic says. He was a massive history nerd.

But as you say, very much faces for radio!

Supercat100 · 15/09/2023 13:17

UnctuousUnicorns · 15/09/2023 00:54

I also have a thing for Giovanni Arnolfini in that Van Eyck painting.

Do you also fancy Vladimir Putin? The general consensus online is that he looks just like Putin!