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Regency Hot Spots: Clement’s Inn

By Anne | April 10, 2020 - 7:27 am |April 28, 2020 Regency Hot Spots

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London, Or Interesting Memorials of Its Rise, Progress & Present State, Volume 2 (1824) Part of the Inns of Chancery in London, Clement’s Inn was Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: White Conduit House and Tea Garden

By Anne | January 14, 2020 - 6:43 am |February 11, 2020 Regency Hot Spots

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Old White Conduit House tea gardens, Pentonville, London

The Picture of London for 1802 In northern, central London sits Pentonville. An open countryside adjacent to the New Road, it was part of the Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Du Bourg’s Models

By Anne | May 30, 2019 - 6:52 am |June 21, 2019 Regency Culture and Society, Regency Hot Spots

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Engraving of Du Bourg's musuem from London Metropolitan Archives

The Picture of London for 1820 Although often dismissed as a showman, modern scholars have credits Richard Du Bourg as one of the first artists Continue →

Regency (N)ot Spots: Bermondsey Spa

By Anne | March 16, 2019 - 7:32 am |April 9, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

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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 →