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Regency Culture and Society: Pop Music

By Anne | October 10, 2014 - 11:21 pm |July 22, 2015 Regency Culture and Society

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Sometimes, hearing the music of an era can transport us. Pop music from the Regency luckily has survived in some circles, so that I am Continue →

Regency Science and Invention: Quackery

By Anne | October 6, 2014 - 10:37 pm |August 14, 2015 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Health and Medicine, Regency Science and Invention

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I admit it, I too find it hard to have my Regency doctors administering blood letting. I have noticed this often becomes an anachronistic trope Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Southill Park

By Anne | September 20, 2014 - 5:32 pm |July 22, 2015 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Science and Invention

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I was perusing The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures (1818) when I read about a planned descriptive poem of Southill, the “splendid mansion and Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Major Acts of Parliament 1802

By Anne | July 17, 2014 - 10:00 pm |October 17, 2014 Regency Culture and Society

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The most remarkable act of Parliament in 1802 actually kicked off a whole century of significant Factory reform. The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act Continue →