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Regency Science and Invention: Puffing Billy

By Anne | April 20, 2020 - 8:04 am |May 6, 2020 Regency Science and Invention

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I have posted in the past about the first steam locomotive developed about a half a decade earlier, but Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

By Anne | December 20, 2017 - 7:39 am |January 8, 2018 Regency Advertisements, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Men

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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit. These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue →

Regency Mystery: The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathhurst

By Anne | April 4, 2017 - 7:58 am |August 12, 2022 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Events, Regency Folklore, Regency Mystery

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The disappearance of a British Diplomat in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars is perhaps not so mysterious to today’s reader. But imagine its November 1809, Continue →

Regency Events: 1810 and the Resistance in America

By Anne | January 26, 2017 - 8:16 am |February 2, 2017 Regency Events

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[cryout-button-light url=”#”][/cryout-button-light] “Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of Continue →