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Dressing Up: Fashion and Nightlife in Eighteenth-Century Hampshire
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Dressing Up: Fashion and Nightlife in Eighteenth-Century Hampshire

When
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Until 4 Apr 2027
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Price
Free
House & Gardens day entry includes this exhibition. Online standard/Gift Aid prices: adult £12.50/£13.75; concessions £10/£11 (full-time students and under 26); child age 6–16 £6/£6.60; under 6 free. Family tickets: one adult plus up to three children £18 standard/£20.90 Gift Aid; two adults plus up to three children £30 standard/£34.10 Gift Aid. Disabled visitors £5/£5.50 with a free accompanying carer. Art Fund and individual Gardeners’ World members pay £6.25/£6.88; Gardeners’ World 2-for-1 £12.50/£13.75; Historic Houses members free; RHS members free except in February. Onsite day tickets are £1 more than advance prices, except annual tickets.
Where
Chawton House
Chawton House, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1SJ
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About

Explore how people in Hampshire prepared for and enjoyed evenings out between 1750 and 1820.

This exhibition follows a Georgian night out from choosing clothes and cosmetics to travelling after dark and reaching theatres, assembly rooms, gardens and country houses. Rare books, manuscripts, fashion plates and artworks sit alongside a 1730s embroidered waistcoat, a 1799 fan made from magazine pages, accessories, sedan chairs, gambling tokens and tickets. The displays also examine newspaper accounts, caricatures and literary depictions of nightlife. Co-curated by University of Southampton historians Dr Julie Gammon and Professor Maria Hayward.

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Julie GammonMaria Hayward

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FreeHouse & Gardens day entry includes this exhibition. Online standard/Gift Aid prices: adult £12.50/£13.75; concessions £10/£11 (full-time students and under 26); child age 6–16 £6/£6.60; under 6 free. Family tickets: one adult plus up to three children £18 standard/£20.90 Gift Aid; two adults plus up to three children £30 standard/£34.10 Gift Aid. Disabled visitors £5/£5.50 with a free accompanying carer. Art Fund and individual Gardeners’ World members pay £6.25/£6.88; Gardeners’ World 2-for-1 £12.50/£13.75; Historic Houses members free; RHS members free except in February. Onsite day tickets are £1 more than advance prices, except annual tickets.
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