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Regency Hot Spots: Mr. Sass’s Academy

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Portrait of Henry Sass

New Picture of London (1830) Sass’s Academy, later Cary’s Academy, was a London art school that provided training for pupils wishing to enter the Royal Continue →

Pre-Regency Events: The Paving and Lighting Act of 1766

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New Picture of London, 1820 In the Georgian era, ahead of the industrial revolution and after over 50 years of “obsession with the paving of Westminster’s Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Sans Pareil Theatre

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  What would later become the Adelphi Theatre, the Sans Pareil (Without Compare) Theatre was founded in 1806 in The Strand by colour merchant John Continue →