The Quizzing Blog: A Leopard in the Orangery – Regency Britain’s Exotic Pet Problem
Written by Anastasia Rydaeva. Let’s say you are shopping for ribbon in the Strand sometime around 1810. You are browsing the windows of the fashionable milliners and hosiers of the Exeter Exchange, and over the ordinary hum of commerce you hear it – a lion. Roaring. Directly above your head. Nobody around you so much…
