Regency History – Page 311

Regency Hot Spots: Regent’s Park

By anneglover | March 16, 2011 - 9:53 pm |March 16, 2011 Regency Hot Spots

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Regent’s Park was, in Medieval England, a part of the Barking Abbey property. Around the mid 1600s, after the dissolution of monasteries, it was transformed Continue →

Regency Lexicon: Mawkish

By anneglover | March 14, 2011 - 9:35 pm |March 14, 2011 Regency Words

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mawk·ish (môksh) adj. 1. Excessively and objectionably sentimental. 2. Sickening or insipid in taste. Sense of “sickly sentimental” is first recorded 1702. [From Middle English mawke, Continue →

Regency H(N)ot Spots: Harrogate

By Anne | February 27, 2011 - 4:58 am |February 27, 2011 Regency Hot Spots

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High Harrogate and Low Harrogate came to birth around the 17th century as two separate developments. In north Yorkshire, it is an iron and sulphur Continue →