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Regency Culture and Society: A Woman in Want of Pockets

By Anne | November 16, 2017 - 11:29 am |November 28, 2017 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Fashion, Regency Women of Character

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Gentle readers, you are probably already aware of the deep gender divide around Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Activities for September

By Anne | September 26, 2017 - 10:45 am |October 6, 2017 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Pastimes

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The Original Picture of London, Enlarged and Improved, 1826 For more on the Bartholomew Fair, check out this post. For more on Drury Lane Theatre, Continue →

Regency Household: A Hunting Lodge

By Anne | May 12, 2017 - 8:03 am |June 6, 2017 Regency Household

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This beautiful hunting lodge plate and description appeared in the May 1816 edition of Ackermann’s Repository. The large windows are meant to pull nature into Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Worm Lozenges

By Anne | May 6, 2017 - 8:33 am |May 26, 2017 Regency Advertisements, Regency Health and Medicine

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La Belle Assemblee, December 1817 John Ching patented a medicine for “destroying worms” on July 11, 1796. The two types of lozenges, brown and yellow, were Continue →