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Regency Estates: Mount Edgcumbe

By Anne | July 24, 2021 - 6:46 am |August 15, 2021 Regency Estates

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Excerpt from “Mount Edgcumbe: A Poem” by Cyrus Redding (1811). With a country park spreading over 860 acres on the Rame Peninsula in South Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: The Shakespeare Gallery

By Anne | July 22, 2021 - 6:39 am |August 10, 2021 Regency Hot Spots

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Initiated in November 1786, the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery at 52 Pall Mall was the brain child of engraver and publisher John Boydell who, hoping to Continue →

Regency Fashion: Full Dress (1805) and TBT from 1755

By Anne | July 20, 2021 - 6:29 am |August 2, 2021 Regency Fashion

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Printed in the July issue of the Lady’s Monthly Museum from 1805, was this unique fashion plate that showed a throw back picture to a Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Edinburgh New Assembly Rooms

By Anne | July 16, 2021 - 7:24 am |July 30, 2021 Regency Hot Spots

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Picture of Edinburgh (1825) Funded through public subscription, the New Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh were centrally located on George Street in the Georgian era New Continue →