leisure and luxury

Pages

• note | Balls, fêtes, banquets and fashionables
• note | Carriages
• note | Flowers and gardens
• note | Music
• note | Regattas
• note | Theatre

Pages in draft

• note | Boats
• note | Books
• note | Paintings
• note | Racehorses

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Images from the top

• William Blake: Albion rose, 1793. Wikimedia Commons

“Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giving himself for the Nations he danc’d the dance of Eternal Death”.

• William Blake: The blossom, 1789, Songs of innocence, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1934/1934-h/1934-h.htm.

Page history

• 2023 March 12: first published online.
• 2025 March 10: updated.