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Regency Customs: All Hallows Eve and Nutcrack Night

By Anne | October 28, 2015 - 9:45 am |October 21, 2022 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Folklore, Regency Pastimes

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In the Regency era, All Hallows Eve or Nutcrack night would have largely been celebrations of the working class, and particularly the Irish and Scottish. Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: Farriery

By Anne | September 24, 2015 - 8:57 am |October 6, 2015 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Health and Medicine

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The London Encyclopaedia (1829). The etymology of farrier is somewhat up for debate, but one explanation is that it is a combination of Latin words Continue →

Regency Household: Cleaning Recipes

By Anne | May 13, 2015 - 7:37 pm |June 9, 2015 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Dish

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I have been a lover of DIY and hacks for at least ten years and so naturally am also a collector of historical remedies and Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: House Keys and Reticules

By Anne | October 22, 2014 - 5:47 pm |August 2, 2015 Regency Customs, Regency Fashion, Regency Reader Questions

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I was so thrilled to spy in my inbox this funnily worded question from Georgie Wickham… Moniker/Name: Gerogie Wickham Source of Question: Research Your Question: Continue →