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Regency Economy: Cheesemongers

By Anne | December 30, 2023 - 7:11 am |January 13, 2024 Regency Economy

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The Complete Book of Trades, Or the Parents’ Guide and Youths’ Instructor (1837) Fascinating insight into one of the trades of the Regency. For other Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Late Regency Era Working Class

By Anne | October 10, 2022 - 7:50 am |October 26, 2022 Regency Reader Questions

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Regency Reader Question I’m very curious about the respectable working class in the late Regency era or after-Regency “long Regency”. What did they do, and Continue →

Regency Economy: The Gardener

By Anne | May 10, 2018 - 7:09 am |May 24, 2018 Regency Economy

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In The Book of Trades, Or Library of the Useful Arts..(1806) there is a chapter devoted to the career of a gardener. In the Regency 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 →