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Regency Crime and Punishment: Assizes

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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 →

Regency Culture and Society: The Persian Student in London

By Anne | January 2, 2016 - 10:44 am |January 19, 2016 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Literature, Regency Men

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I heard of a fascinating new book on NPR the other day, the recounting of a diary of Persian student who travelled, with five other students, Continue →