Engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first successful steamboat
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Robert Fulton and the Development of Modern Naval Warfare
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Jemima Nicholas, Heroine of Fishguard
or “The Welsh Heroine”
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Isaac Watts: Author of Joy to the World
Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing. The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was [...]
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John Heathcoat and the Bobbin-net Machine
The inventor who ushered in the “Muslin and Net Period” of Regency Fashion
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Mary Anning: Regency Paleontologist
The carpenter’s daughter who became a legend…
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‘In the Tradition of Jane Austen’: The Life of Georgette Heyer
The inventor of the ‘Regency Romance’, 100 years after Jane Austen…
Who is Sandy Lerner?
where did this Fairy Godmother of English women’s literature appear from?
Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell
Great Britain’s first “Domestic Goddess”
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Josiah Spode & Sons: Founders of the Spode Dynasty
Inventors of English Bone China
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Kate Greenaway: Regency Revivalist
The artist who brought Regency Style to the Victorian Era
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