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Regency Reader Questions: Capitalisation and Titles

By Anne | February 14, 2024 - 7:38 am |March 4, 2024 Regency Reader Questions

M.L. asked in the comments: “I have a question: when writing about members of the aristocracy, should one capitalise? I.e. the Earl of x. Is Continue →

Regency Estates: Longleat

By Anne | August 20, 2021 - 7:02 am |September 9, 2021 Regency Estates

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Home of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat now hosts a safari park and a famous maze (the world’s longest!). But in the Regency era, this Continue →

Representing Regency: Black Britons, Part II

By Anne | January 2, 2021 - 1:15 pm |January 21, 2021 From the Desk of Anne

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Not surprisingly, given the enormous popularity of Bridgerton on Netflix, our numbers of visitors have skyrocketed in the last week. And while some are browsing Continue →

Regency Culture and Society: A Gentleman’s Etiquette for Acknowledging Superiors

By Anne | December 18, 2020 - 1:05 pm |December 31, 2020 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Men

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These recommendations, from A System of Etiquette (1805), are made for gentlemen to acknowledge other gentlemen of greater rank, age, or “superior knowledge” and also, Continue →