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Regency Hot Spots: The River Thames Frost Fair

By Anne | October 22, 2011 - 11:00 pm |March 25, 2013 Regency Hot Spots

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Between 1400 and 1814, The River Thames froze over approximately 26 times. The Great Freeeze of 1683-1684 prompted the first commercial and full scale “Frost Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Savile Row

By anneglover | June 20, 2011 - 3:30 pm |June 20, 2011 Regency Hot Spots

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Every girl is crazy about a sharp dressed man. Or so they say. The Regency man was not immune to displaying his charms to catch Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: The Bartholomew Fair

By Anne | May 20, 2011 - 2:33 pm |April 26, 2016 Regency Hot Spots

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Dating back to the Middle Ages, the charter fair was a street fair or market established by Royal Charter. Originally held as markets for merchant Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Regent’s Park

By anneglover | March 16, 2011 - 9:53 pm |March 16, 2011 Regency Hot Spots

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Regent’s Park was, in Medieval England, a part of the Barking Abbey property. Around the mid 1600s, after the dissolution of monasteries, it was transformed Continue →