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anteros_lmcA quick heads up for those in the UK or with access to the iPlayer that BBC 4 begins a new series tonight on Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency by Dr Lucy Worsley Chief Curator at Kew Palace. Tonight's episode Warts and All - Portrait of a Prince focuses on the Prince Regent himself. Blurb as follows:
The series website also has a cute little clip of how to dress like a dandy and tie a regency cravat.
Should be an interesting series but I have to confess that my abiding image of the Prince Regent is always likely to be this XD
In this first episode, historian Dr Lucy Worsley chronicles the Regency's early years, which culminated in victory over Napoleon in 1815, and explores the complicated character of the Prince Regent, a man with legendary appetites for women, food, art and self-indulgence.Meanwhile, the long war with France was having a huge impact on the British psyche; travel and trade with Europe were impossibly restricted. Lucy follows in the footsteps of painter JMW Turner who, unable to travel to the continent, toured the south coast in 1811 and captured startling images of a country at war.
George liked to think of himself as a man of fashion, and Lucy takes us through surviving accounts from his tailors that reveal his shopaholic ways. These were the years in which the Prince's sometime friend Beau Brummell, the famous dandy, ruled fashionable London like a dictator, and Lucy samples a bit of butch Regency style by trying on some of the fashions he popularised, as well as joining Brummell biographer Ian Kelly on a tour of London's fashionable Regency haunts. She also discovers Brummell's spectacular fall from favour, after loudly referring to the Regent as someone's 'fat friend'.
Lucy visits the battlefield of Waterloo and discovers that the site became a prototype of battlefield tourism - Turner, Byron and many others all visited in the years after the battle and Lucy handles some grisly memorabilia purchased by Lord Byron.
The series website also has a cute little clip of how to dress like a dandy and tie a regency cravat.
Should be an interesting series but I have to confess that my abiding image of the Prince Regent is always likely to be this XD
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Date: 2011-08-29 03:47 pm (UTC)*hopefuls*
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Date: 2011-08-30 08:03 pm (UTC)Oh yes, oh please, oh ta muchly!
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Date: 2011-08-30 08:16 pm (UTC)I can wait until October and we can save the postage :D
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Date: 2011-08-30 08:23 pm (UTC)Something else you might want to put on your recording schedule is the forensic archaeology series Back from the Dead which is showing an episode about remains from the Royal Naval graveyards on Sunday evening at 20.00. I'll post a little reminder about it later the week.
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Date: 2011-09-01 09:45 pm (UTC)PS Your fandom has a much better doctor than mine does! XD
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Date: 2011-08-29 07:01 pm (UTC)See comment to
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Date: 2011-08-29 10:24 pm (UTC)I really don't know what has come over me today!
Maybe it's the influence of Mephistopheles ;)
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Date: 2011-08-29 11:25 pm (UTC)And on that devilishly delightful note I am off to bed ;)
PS there's another pic here. Enjoy!
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