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Regency Culture and Society: 10 Maxims for Conduct in Life

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A Treatise on Politeness, etc (1813) authored by A Lady gives us 100 Maxims for Conduct. We present the first 10, which honestly wouldn’t look Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Taw

By Anne | March 14, 2021 - 7:47 am |March 18, 2021 Regency Pastimes

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Defined in Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as “a schoolboy’s game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, called marbles”, Continue →

Regency Travel: The Tilbury Firm

By Anne | March 12, 2021 - 9:08 am |March 30, 2021 Regency Travel

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The tilbury carriage (a light, open, two wheeled carriage with or without a top) was named for its maker, the London firm Tilbury. Their coachbuilding Continue →