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Regency Events: The Imprisonment of Toussaint Louverture

By Anne | August 24, 2022 - 7:25 am |September 5, 2022 Regency Events

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On August 25, 1803, Toussaint Louverture was imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France. Toussaint Louverture was leader of the Haitian independence movement. Born a Continue →

Regency Villains: The Duke of Cumberland and His Valet

By Anne | October 24, 2021 - 7:18 am |November 15, 2021 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Events, Regency Mystery, Regency Villains

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CW: Suicide, murder, assault, violence A Minute Detail of the Attempt to assassinate … the Duke of Cumberland … in a letter to W. Continue →

Regency Events: Luddite Uprisings

By Anne | December 16, 2020 - 6:56 am |December 23, 2020 Regency Events, Regency Science and Invention

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We wrote a bit about Luddites before, but wanted to focus today on a significant date in this trajectory: the first Luddite “attack” on textile Continue →

Pre-Regency Events: The Paving and Lighting Act of 1766

By Anne | March 24, 2018 - 6:31 am |April 10, 2018 Regency Events

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New Picture of London, 1820 In the Georgian era, ahead of the industrial revolution and after over 50 years of “obsession with the paving of Westminster’s Continue →