Monthly Archives: March 2011

A wild week for Peter the Wild Boy

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Lucy

This week Peter the Wild Boy was on the radio as part of the Making History programme on Radio 4, and he also popped up in our new video on the Historic Royal Palaces Youtube channel.   He was written about in The Guardian, and in the Daily Mail as well. The excitement was all caused

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My day as a dandy

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Lucy

No, I’m not doing a Fred Astaire number, I’m all dandied up in preparation for a lesson in cravat-tying from the dandy historian Ian Kelly.  Why did the high collar and the tight cravat become so popular in the Regency?  Partly to hide the double chins of the Prince Regent, and partly as a result

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Regency Ladies

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Lucy

I have been spending time with a couple of Regency ladies over the last few days.  Yesterday I saw Lady Caroline Lamb’s scrapbook (left) in the John Murray archive in Edinburgh, which I wanted to look at to understand her views on the waltz. She loved waltzing, and made lots of humorous drawings of waltzing

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