Category Archives: Regency History

Regency Household: A Hunting Lodge

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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 Culture and Society: A Letter from a Young Gentleman to His Sister

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Appearing in the Lady’s Monthly Museum (1803, Volume 11), this letter from a young gentleman to his sister is everything a letter from a big Continue →

Regency Health and Medicine: Worm Lozenges

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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 →

Regency Advertisements: Wigleworth’s Wine

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This ad appeared in the January 1818 La Belle Assemblee, proclaiming the availability of every hero’s favorite drink (he at least likes one of them, Continue →