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Regency Reader Questions: Dining in Hotels

By Anne | May 26, 2017 - 8:19 am |June 23, 2017 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Hot Spots, Regency Reader Questions

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Regency Reader Question I’ve just finished & enjoyed Rose Lerner’s well-researched “True Pretenses” set in a country town in 1808. In it, the hero invited Continue →

London Hot Spots: The Porter Brewery

By Anne | January 14, 2017 - 7:56 am |February 8, 2017 Regency Economy, Regency Hot Spots

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The ambulator; or, The stranger’s companion in a tour round London (1807) Porter beer rose in popularity in the 1700s, and would begin to dwindle Continue →

Regency H(n)ot Spots: Cranbourne Alley

By Anne | December 14, 2016 - 8:08 am |January 11, 2017 Regency Fashion, Regency Hot Spots

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(The above is a millinery shop in Paris c. 1822) Cranbourn(e) Alley (or Street) was a paved pedestrian thoroughfare that led from Castle Street to Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Soho Square

By Anne | November 18, 2016 - 8:47 am |December 10, 2016 Regency Hot Spots

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Soho Square was built in the late 1670s and was initially one of the most fashionable addresses for Town dwellers. Originally called King’ Square in Continue →