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Bath
Dartmouth Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 1AS
Date
2019
Extent
Pages: 43
Description
A magazine produced by and for the City of Bath Mayor's Honorary Guides. Contents of this edition are as follows: Kruger Gray 1880-1943: Bath coin designer by Roland Symons, pp.6-9; Beatrix Potter and Bath (visits made to the city in 1905 and 1906) by Julie Hayward; Eighteenth-Century Bath's weighty physician: George Cheyne (Dr George Cheyne c. 1671-1743 moved to Bath in 1718 where he prescribed medical treatments and diets for his aristocratic patients including Selina, Countess of Huntingdon) by Boyd Schlenther, pp. 11-13; Nelson and his sisters (Susannah, Ann and Catherine (Kitty) by Susan Amos, pp. 13-18; How did 18c people manage to wash their hair? by Audrey Woods, pp. 19-20; Needlework (a short historyof the subject) by Audrey Woods, pp. 20-23; My time at the Theatre Royal, Bath by Robin Hawdon (Hawdon's experiences with the famous actors and actresses who appeared at the Theatre Royal in the three years that he ran the venture in the early 1980s), pp. 23-25; Dining out in Jane Austen's Bath by Stephen Ross (alehouses, coffee houses and food stalls in late-eighteenth century and early-nineteenth-century Bath) by Stephen Ross, pp. 25-27; Rajas, Ayas and jugglers: Indian visitors to Bath during the Raj including Nawabzada Khan of Sachin in Western India, Maharao Khengarji III of Kutch, the Nawab and Begum of Mamdot, Lieutenant Colonel Rao Raja Amar, the Maharajah of Alwar's Military Secretary and Dr C. Pande the State Surgeon, the Maharaja of Indore, Hokar Yaswant Rao, Pratap Singh, the Maharaja of Nabha, Krishna Kumarsinjhi Bhavsinjhi, Maharaja of Bhavnagar, Sarah Venell who married the Nawab of Bengal who was a frequent visitor to Bath staying at the Lansdown Grove and York Hotels and a boarding house in Queen Square), by Colin Fisher, pp. 31-33; Thomas Potter: MP Recorder of Bath & Libertine with a brief account of his involvement in the Essay on Woman together with information on John Wilkes by Ian Perkins, pp. 33-36; John Wilkes: MP, political agitator & radical journalist, pp. 36-40; The Wessex World Heritage Triangle. Bath-Stonehenge-Avebury-Bath. Walking to raise funds for the Archway project: A shortened account of My Daily Journal by Stephen Bird, pp. 40-41.
Subject
Authors Coins Cuisine Indians Personal narratives Physicians Theatres
