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Regency Hot Spots: Exeter ‘Change

By Anne | August 26, 2016 - 7:41 am |July 15, 2023 Regency Hot Spots

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In the Strand the Exeter (Ex)Change was built around 1690 “as a sort of bazaar” which “(l)ike countless other imitations…proved a failure” (London society, Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Shops of the Haute Ton

By Anne | June 26, 2009 - 11:42 pm |November 9, 2022 Regency Hot Spots

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If you were part of the ton, you had to flaunt your wealth regardless of its reality. Just as the famous and fabulously wealth celebs Continue →

Regency Hot Spot: Hyde Park and Rotten Row

By anneglover | November 10, 2008 - 11:14 am |March 8, 2018 Regency Hot Spots

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I envision myself in a whalebone corset set high in curricle wearing a fashionable bonnet and politely greeting acquaintances in Rotten Row. And then I Continue →