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Regency Hot Spots: The River Thames Frost Fair

By Anne | October 22, 2011 - 11:00 pm |March 25, 2013 Regency Hot Spots

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Between 1400 and 1814, The River Thames froze over approximately 26 times. The Great Freeeze of 1683-1684 prompted the first commercial and full scale “Frost Continue →

Regency Words: Monkey and money

By Anne | October 13, 2011 - 9:30 pm |October 13, 2011 Regency Words

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When a gentleman said he bet a monkey, what did he mean? 500 pounds, of course. A gentleman close to the River Tick might have Continue →

Regency Women of Character: Sarah Trimmer

By Anne | September 30, 2011 - 2:40 pm |September 30, 2011 Regency Women of Character

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Born in 1741, Sarah Trimmer nee Kirby was a writer, philanthropist and reformer whose focus on education and children’s literature helped influence a movement towards Continue →

Regency Customs: The Dance

By Anne | September 16, 2011 - 12:58 pm |September 16, 2011 Regency Customs

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If you have ever seen Footloose, you know that the dance is a sexually charged activity usually engaged in by the young. Certainly, the Regency Continue →