Assembly Rooms, May 2015

So many articles this month! I hope you find some of them to be of interest.

Gillray-very slippy weatherThe prodigiously talented Gillray: http://18thcand19thc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/james-gillray-prince-of-caricaturists.html

The care and upbringing of foundlings: http://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/thomas-coram-and-the-foundling-hospital/

A London walk: https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/footsteps-of-soane-ii/

Palace and castle: http://www.madamegilflurt.com/2015/03/a-salon-guest-kings-palaces.html

The middle class: http://www.madamegilflurt.com/2015/03/a-salon-guest-middle-class-in-regency.html

Where Sally Jersey lived: http://www.regencyhistory.net/2015/04/osterley-park-robert-adam-showpiece.html

On one kind of coach: http://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2015/01/whats-traveling-chariot.html

The King’s Bench Prison: http://www.naomiclifford.com/life-in-the-kings-bench-prison/

April Fools: http://janeaustenslondon.com/2015/04/05/all-about-april-fools-and-showers/

Long gone London: http://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/27/john-thomas-smiths-ancient-topography/

The docks: http://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-new-london-docks-of-the-early-19th-century/

The Marquis de Lafayette: http://shannonselin.com/2015/03/napoleon-and-marquis-de-lafayette/

Court of Chancery: http://mimimatthews.com/2015/04/06/law-meets-literature-bleak-house-and-the-british-court-of-chancery/

On table manners: http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2015/04/lolling-and-boarding-house-reach.html

Irish crafts: http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/great-18th-century-irish-art-and-crafts-that-took-the-boat-1.2167628

Jane and the seaside: http://www.regencyhistory.net/2012/09/jane-austen-and-seaside.html

Shaving explained: http://sharonlathanauthor.com/a-close-shave/

Dancing! http://randombitsoffascination.com/2015/04/14/look-regency-dancing-part-2/

The vexations of wealth: http://angelynschmid.com/2015/04/10/regency-wealth-and-lifestyle/

More about the port: https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/the-port-of-london-in-the-18th-century/

Not your usual info about traveling to Bath: http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/04/16/the-journey-of-dr-robert-bongout-and-his-lady-to-bath/

Portrait of Queen Charlotte: http://www.madamegilflurt.com/2014/06/sir-thomas-lawrence-portrait-of-queen.html

Portrait of a scandal: https://deyoung.famsf.org/blog/scottish-visitors-margaret-lindsay-evelick

A fan: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2015/04/13/a-fan-of-the-directoire-period/

Quote from Byron: http://www.regencyhistory.net/2013/04/20-lord-byron-quotes.html

On Berkeley Square: http://lauriebenson.net/2015/04/20/a-fashionable-georgian-address-berkeley-square/

Whigs and Tories explained: http://www.regencyhistory.net/2015/04/the-whigs-and-tories.html

Surgical instruments (shudder): https://dralun.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/edging-the-competition-surgical-instruments-in-the-18th-century/

Hysteria: http://18thcand19thc.blogspot.com/2015/04/hysteria-in-georgian-era.html

The lovely long and short S: https://herreputationforaccomplishment.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/rules-for-writing-long-and-short-s-in-jane-austens-era/

PJs back then: http://18thcand19thc.blogspot.com/2015/04/georgian-clothing-for-sleep.html

Gin palaces: http://www.historytoday.com/jessica-warner/peoples-palaces-gin-regency-england

Coaching accidents: https://susanaellisauthor.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/the-holyhead-road-three-notable-coaching-accidents/

Smuggling: https://laurengilbertheyerwood.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/smuggling-in-jane-austens-time/

All about writing letters: https://herreputationforaccomplishment.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/anatomy-of-a-regency-letter/

Hats and impending war: http://janeaustenslondon.com/2015/05/07/the-road-to-waterloo-week-11-voter-apathy-hits-napoleon-london-debates-marrying-actresses-and-spring-bonnets-are-in-the-news/