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Regency Hot Spots: Dutton’s Circulating Library

By Anne | August 16, 2019 - 7:50 am |August 30, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

La Belle Assemblee, 1807 On 45 Gracechurch Street in London, Dutton’s Universal Circulating Library and booksellers operated from 1799 until sometime in the late 1820s. It was one Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: Twickenham

By Anne | July 18, 2019 - 8:25 am |August 14, 2019 Regency Hot Spots

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The Picture of London, for 1803 By the late Georgian era, the stretch of Thames between Richmond and Twickenham “was punctuated with a variety of 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 Reader Questions: Spas and Bathing Part II

By Anne | May 22, 2019 - 7:25 am |June 18, 2019 Regency Hot Spots, Regency Reader Questions, Regency Travel

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Moniker/Name: tkh Source of Question: Research Your Question: One more question for you. I’ve been looking into “taking the waters.” Everyone speaks of Bath, but Continue →