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Regency Culture and Society: 10 Maxims for Conduct in Life

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A Treatise on Politeness, etc (1813) authored by A Lady gives us 100 Maxims for Conduct. We present the first 10, which honestly wouldn’t look Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Taw

By Anne | March 14, 2021 - 7:47 am |March 18, 2021 Regency Pastimes

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Defined in Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as “a schoolboy’s game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, called marbles”, Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Travelling Piquet

By Anne | March 8, 2021 - 8:41 am |May 3, 2021 Regency Pastimes, Regency Travel

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It shouldn’t be a surprise that passing the time while travelling in a vehicle was, in the Regency era the same as today, sometimes as Continue →

Regency Men: Bob Gregson, the Lancashire Giant

By Anne | March 6, 2021 - 8:23 am |March 17, 2021 Regency Men

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Born in 1778, Bob Gregson was billed as the Lancashire Giant while a bare-knuckle fighter and champion boxer in the early 19th century. He would Continue →