Regency Reader Questions: Nouveau Riche, Aristocrats, Merchants and Marriage

Moniker/Name Alex Source of Question Research Your Question Who would be considered the “nouveau riche” and how did they try to integrate themselves to the Continue

Regency (N)ot Spots: Bermondsey Spa

Around 1770, Thomas Keyse discovered a chalybeate spring in Bermondsey.  By 1780, the Vauxhall inspired (but on much smaller scale) Bermondsey Spa Pleasure Gardens was Continue

Regency Economy: The Gardener

In The Book of Trades, Or Library of the Useful Arts..(1806) there is a chapter devoted to the career of a gardener. In the Regency Continue