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Regency Advertisements: Playing Cards

By Anne | March 16, 2023 - 7:31 am |March 21, 2023 Regency Advertisements, Regency Pastimes

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This ad appeared in the August 1817 issue of La Belle Assemblée. According to this post: “Up until the middle of the 19th century, the Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Hunt the Fox

By Anne | February 16, 2023 - 7:13 am |February 25, 2023 Regency Pastimes

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While not a unique to the Regency, hunt the fox was a popular children’s chasing game. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Continue →

Regency Travel: The Road Game

By Anne | January 2, 2022 - 8:31 am |January 19, 2022 Regency Pastimes, Regency Travel

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We shared the game for passengers of a carriage, travelling piquet, but coachmen had their own game up on the box called the “Road Game”: 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 →

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