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Georgian LondonRobert StanleyRegency LondonHistorical LondonWilliam EllisVictorian LondonLondon HistoryLondon PicturesLondon MuseumsStrand, London - WikiwandThe Strand is a major street in the City of Westminster, Central London. The street, which is part of London's West End theatreland, runs just over 3⁄4 mile (1....
Tudor HousesThomas SmithJohn ThomasLondon WallThe Great FireVictorian LondonLondon HistoryFleet StreetBrick LaneTudor HousesJETTIED WOODEN HOUSES These houses are like those in the City of London in 1666. Many of the images in JT Smith’s book Ancient Topography of London show medieval or Tudor buildings that survived into the 18th and early 19th centuries. The City of London had many houses in this style at the time of the Great Fire. Timber-framed buildings from this period were often ‘jettied’. This means that the upper storeys leant out into the street and were supported on brackets. Jetties increased the…
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Historical RomanceOld LondonRegency LondonA Night At The OperaLondon HistoryLondon TheatreRegency EraTheatre ArtsHistorical SocietyThe Duchess of Devonshire's Gossip Guide to the 18th CenturySummary Evelina is on a mission and that mission is to avoid Lord Orville at all costs. In the past this mission would be more easily accomplished but since being guests together, Lord Orville is difficult to avoid and Evelina is finding it difficult to come up with excuses out of his invitations. Evelina is further upset when she finds that she is included in an anonymous poem, Beauties of the Wells as the most beautiful woman in town. Lord Orville’s polite jealousy is further revealed when…
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HamburgVauxhall Gardens18th Century LondonGeorgian CultureMary DelanyPleasure GardenRegency LondonRegency EnglandGeorgette HeyerThe pleasure gardens of 18th-century LondonBy David Blackwell A popular form of aristocratic entertainment in mid-18th-century London was to stroll round the city’s ornamental pleasure gardens, both those at Vauxhall (launched in 1732 with a masked gala) and its more fashionable rival, Ranelagh Gardens (opened in 1742 and now the site of the annual Chelsea Flower Show).
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