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Bridgerton: behind the scenes of season 2

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What Is Pall Mall?

Ley had a more active life than then we tend to presume. There is a much greater degree of physical activity than than we might think. Oin horse riding, you know, for exercise, but also participation in some sports. Anwe we see women playing cricket in images from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. And on at the dancing we see a lot of more physical pursuits of the day. The we perhaps haven't seen m in serious previously, horse riding and hunting and lawn games. And how much could women take part in these pursuits, or were they excluded from them?

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