Regency Culture and Society – Page 38

Regency Culture and Society: A Scathing Letter on the Marriage of Minors

By Anne | February 10, 2016 - 11:47 am |February 26, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Men

Based on the desperate and sometimes scathing letter to the editor that appeared in the February 1815 issue of The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: A Domestic Chapel

By Anne | January 28, 2016 - 10:55 am |February 26, 2016 Regency Culture and Society

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Appearing in the December 1817 Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c, this domestic chapel was meant to be for the convenience of a country Continue →

Regency Crime and Punishment: Assizes

By Anne | January 20, 2016 - 9:33 am |February 26, 2016 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Culture and Society

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For serious criminal and civil matters, the courts of assize or assizes as they were known were held in country towns. Visiting judges from higher Continue →

Regency Pastimes: The Game of Faro

By Anne | January 10, 2016 - 6:01 pm |February 26, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Pastimes

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Pharo, or Faro, (derived from Pharaoh) eventually would become the favorite gambling game of the American frontier (http://www.historynet.com/faro-favorite-gambling-game-of-the-frontier.htm)…but had an auspicious beginning in France as Continue →