Regency Perspectives on Childhood
Prior to the nineteenth century, children were viewed as fundamentally miniature adults, not much different from their parents.
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The Birth of an Heir
Enjoy Pi Day with a Dragon
Pi Day (as in the number 3.14) is truly the geekiest of holidays. But in a family of engineers, it seems required to at least make note of it.
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For decades British the system was slow, expensive and unreliable. During the Regency era, the postal system experienced dramatic changes.
Continue reading →The Regency Laptop
Ubiquitous as the laptop computer is today, the writing desk or writing slope, played major role in the creation of novels by Jane Austen, the Brontës, and others, that still enjoy wide readership today.
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