Category Archives: Regency Health and Medicine

Regency Culture and Society: Ladies Taking Snuff

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Elegantly dressed lady taking snuff

  One of my favorite schticks in a Heyer novel is in Regency Buck when Judith is taught how to take snuff.  It sums up Continue →

Regency Advertisements: For All You Military Men…

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Now the “oldest cosmetics manufacturer in the UK” (http://johngosnell.com/about-us/history/) dating back to 1677, during the Regency era the company of Price & Gosnell had a Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Lost Happiness Regained (in other words, abortions)

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I learn the most interesting things about Regency society reading the advertisments.  Take this week’s knowledge on book prices, or when I learned powdered drinks Continue →