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Regency Culture and Society: A Scathing Letter on the Marriage of Minors

By Anne | February 10, 2016 - 11:47 am |February 26, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Men

Based on the desperate and sometimes scathing letter to the editor that appeared in the February 1815 issue of The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Continue →

Regency Customs: All Hallows Eve and Nutcrack Night

By Anne | October 28, 2015 - 9:45 am |October 21, 2022 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Folklore, Regency Pastimes

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In the Regency era, All Hallows Eve or Nutcrack night would have largely been celebrations of the working class, and particularly the Irish and Scottish. Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Farriery

By Anne | September 24, 2015 - 8:57 am |October 6, 2015 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Health and Medicine

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The London Encyclopaedia (1829). The etymology of farrier is somewhat up for debate, but one explanation is that it is a combination of Latin words Continue →