The Elegance and Engineering of the Sidesaddle
The story of the sidesaddle is really the story of how women went from being passengers to being powerful equestrians in their own right.
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Horse Cents: The Real Cost of Transportation in Regency England
The Regency era sat at the edge of the Industrial Revolution, but most people still relied on muscle power, human or animal, to move goods and people from place to place.
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Bath Chairs: Changing Mobliity Forever
The Bath chair answered the question: how to move comfortably through a world that was not built for ease of mobility.
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When we last checked in with Blue Order Historian Mr. Bennet in London, he had begun to use a sedan chair to get around because of his advanced arthritis. But what was a sedan chair?
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