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Regency Hot Spots: The White House

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A “discreet side entrance” alluded to the mystery and magic of Soho’s The White House brothel (Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space and Architecture in Regency London, Continue →

Regency Household: A Hunting Lodge

By Anne | May 12, 2017 - 8:03 am |June 6, 2017 Regency Household

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This beautiful hunting lodge plate and description appeared in the May 1816 edition of Ackermann’s Repository. The large windows are meant to pull nature into Continue →

Regency Household: Plan of A Garden

By Anne | October 6, 2016 - 8:45 am |October 26, 2016 Regency Household

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Appearing in the 1821 October edition of Ackermann’s Repository, this garden plan shows a very neat aerial view of an estate layout. It would appear Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Southill Park

By Anne | September 20, 2014 - 5:32 pm |July 22, 2015 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Science and Invention

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I was perusing The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures (1818) when I read about a planned descriptive poem of Southill, the “splendid mansion and Continue →