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Regency Hot Spots: Southill Park

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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 →

Regency Crime and Punishment: The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets

By Anne | October 1, 2012 - 8:26 pm |April 11, 2014 Regency Crime and Punishment, Regency Culture and Society, Regency Literature, Regency Villains

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“When a stranger first arrives in this overgrown city and finds upon alighting at the inn that he has still some miles perhaps to go Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: The Bartholomew Fair

By Anne | May 20, 2011 - 2:33 pm |April 26, 2016 Regency Hot Spots

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Dating back to the Middle Ages, the charter fair was a street fair or market established by Royal Charter. Originally held as markets for merchant Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Regent’s Park

By anneglover | March 16, 2011 - 9:53 pm |March 16, 2011 Regency Hot Spots

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Regent’s Park was, in Medieval England, a part of the Barking Abbey property. Around the mid 1600s, after the dissolution of monasteries, it was transformed Continue →