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Regency Advertisements: Houses to Let

By Anne | May 8, 2022 - 11:16 am |May 18, 2022 Regency Advertisements, Regency Household

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This ad appeared in the October 1817 issue of La Belle Assemblée.

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 →

Regency Estates: Stowe Manor ( Part 2)

By Anne | May 4, 2021 - 7:19 am |May 16, 2021 Regency Estates

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For Part I go here. As the excerpt from Part I explains, the gardens around the manor of Stowe consisted of approximately four hundred acres. Continue →

Regency Reader Questions: The Withdrawing Rooms

By Anne | January 20, 2018 - 7:53 am |February 20, 2018 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Customs, Regency Household, Regency Reader Questions

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Ground plans of two manor homes circa Regency

In a follow up from my post/questions about bathroom habits of Regency people, and expanding on an earlier post about cloak rooms and withdrawing Continue →