Category Archives: Regency Hot Spots

Regency Hot Spots: Du Bourg’s Models

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Engraving of Du Bourg's musuem from London Metropolitan Archives

The Picture of London for 1820 Although often dismissed as a showman, modern scholars have credits Richard Du Bourg as one of the first artists Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Spas and Bathing Part II

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19th Century Brighton and Hove

Moniker/Name: tkh Source of Question: Research Your Question: One more question for you. I’ve been looking into “taking the waters.” Everyone speaks of Bath, but Continue →

Regency Men: Sake Dean Mahomed

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Brighton's Baths

Sake Dean Mahomed (also Sheikh Din Muhammad) was born in Patna, India in 1759 and lived into his early 90s, dying in Brighton in 1851.  Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Spas and Bathing

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Moniker/Name: tkh Source of Question: Research Your Question: One more question for you. I’ve been looking into “taking the waters.” Everyone speaks of Bath, but Continue →