January at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
The Quizzing Glass Blog
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December at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
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November at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
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The Quizzing Blog: The General Post Office of Regency London
In doing the research for the November Academe class on ‘A Day in the Life at a London Posting Inn’ I kept getting sidetracked into dealing with the post due to how posting inns handled the Royal Mail coaches. Since the research on the post didn’t really fit into a workshop on London inns, here’s…
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The Quizzing Glass: Horse Breeds in Regency England
It’s best to start off saying that in the Regency era, a horse’s breed often went unremarked. There also could be confusion about a horse’s breeding since records might not be well kept, or gossip just got the facts wrong. Even Wellington’s favored mount, Copenhagen, was sometimes noted as being half-thoroughbred when it was his…
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October at the Academe
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
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