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Regency Hot Spots: Southill Park

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I was perusing The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures (1818) when I read about a planned descriptive poem of Southill, the “splendid mansion and Continue →

The Sportsman’s Dictionary: Regency Science and Invention

By Anne | January 13, 2014 - 3:31 pm |August 14, 2015 Regency Health and Medicine, Regency Science and Invention

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A Corinthian enjoying all the rural pleasures and country sport necessarily must have some source of education. The Sportman’s Dictionary; Or Gentleman’s Companion (1800) for Continue →

Regency Furniture: Mattresses

By Anne | April 15, 2013 - 2:20 pm |April 11, 2014 Musings, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Science and Invention

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I was recently reading a Reg Rom which made mention of a “feather mattress”. While this particular Reg. was too groan worthy to consider reviewing Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: Herbs and Broken Bones

By Anne | February 10, 2013 - 8:33 pm |August 14, 2015 Musings, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Dish, Regency Health and Medicine, Regency Science and Invention

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Moniker/Name: Brenda Your Question: What medicines, herbal or otherwise, were used primarily in the regency era? For instance, was there a ‘go to’ solution for Continue →