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Also from Anglo-German Cultural Relations: a fine etching by Georg Balthasar Probst of Augsburg, one of the leading producers of perspective views in Europe, depicting the library at the University of Göttingen. The image was copied from one of the plates by Georg Daniel Heumann in the Wahre Abbildung der königl. Große Britan. und Churfürstl. […]

With the subject of knife crime constantly in the news, I thought I’d post this, a German translation of George II’s 1731 proclamation against carrying knives and other weapons, which shows that such problems are nothing new.  I’ve not seen this kind of thing before, but I presume British edicts at the time were regularly […]