Regency Health and Medicine: Exercise

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              Lest we think that the common sense health advice of moderation in food, drink and exercise is a Continue

Regency Science and Invention: A Patent for Moveable Axles for Four-Wheeled Carriages

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A delightful “article” in the March 1, 1819 edition of the Repository of Arts, Literature and Fashion details the new patent for moveable axles for Continue

Regency Science and Invention: Quackery

I admit it,  I too find it hard to have my Regency doctors administering blood letting.  I have noticed this often becomes an anachronistic trope Continue

Regency Hot Spots: Southill Park

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