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Regency Travel: The Road Game

By Anne | January 2, 2022 - 8:31 am |January 19, 2022 Regency Pastimes, Regency Travel

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We shared the game for passengers of a carriage, travelling piquet, but coachmen had their own game up on the box called the “Road Game”: Continue →

Regency Travel: Aprons

By Anne | December 20, 2021 - 7:40 am |December 30, 2021 Regency Travel

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Following up from some questions from a recent post on Coachmen, I decided to dedicate an entire explainer to the word apron and how it Continue →

Regency Travel: Coachmen (Part 1)

By Anne | December 16, 2021 - 6:27 am |December 30, 2021 Regency Economy, Regency Men, Regency Travel

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Coachmen were amazing, skilled and intrepid travelers of the notoriously harrowing roads of the UK during the early 19th century. Here are a few interesting Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Changing Horses at Posting Inns and the Logistics

By Anne | November 18, 2021 - 8:13 am |February 3, 2022 Regency Reader Questions, Regency Travel

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Regency Reader Question what was the cost of changing horses at posting inns? how were these horses returned? how many of the ton had their Continue →