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The following links specialize in various aspects of the English Regency period (c1800-1820).


Other British History Research Links

 
 
General Regency sites:
 
Nancy Meyer, Regency Researcher ("A most proper authority on all things Regency." Indeed, she is. Nancy has been sharing her knowledge with Regency writers for years. Her site is full of wonderful articles.)
Anne Woodley's Regency Collection (Good general site for articles on specific subjects, lots of links.)
The Georgian Index (Comprehensive site on all aspects of Georgian/Regency life.)
The Jane Austen Magazine (Many useful articles on fashion, accessories, history, book reviews, etc.)
 
The Napoleonic Guide (Yes, it's about French history, but it's the same time period as the English Regency and includes everything you ever wanted to know about Napoleon, including his campaigns against British forces. )
A Regency Repository (Good general site with brief overviews of art, literature, science, etc. with lots of links.)
Regency England (Fun site with interesting sections on weddings and shopping.)
Regency Fashion:
 
An Introduction to Gentlemen's Clothing of the Regency Period (Decent overview, with lots of pictures, from the We Make History website.)
  Undressing Your Hero (Excellent blog by author and costume expert Kalen Hughes on the many layers of a Regency man's clothing.)
 
Undressing Your Heroine (Another excellent blog by Kalen Hughes using images of ral Regency garments to illustrate the various layers of a Regency woman's dress.)
  Regency Shoes (Great photos of authentic Regency period shoes of every style.)
  Regency Colors and Fabrics (Excellent glossary on the Romance Reader at Heart website.)
 
Bissonette on Costume: 1800-1829 (Anne Bissoneete, curator of the Kent State Univeristy Art Museum, presents some of their Regency dresses in lovely, detailed photographs.)
  Bissonette on Costume: The Lingerie Collection 1800 - 1899 (Anne Bissoneete, curator of the Kent State Univeristy Art Museum, presents some of their 19th century undergarments in lovely, detailed photographs. Great pictures of corsets.)
 
Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion (This site is primarily for costumers and re-enactors but has lots of useful historical information.)
 
Regency Clothing Styles (Notes and illustrations, an excellent overview at the Republic of Pemberley site.)
 
Regency Fashion History (Good overview at Fashion-era.com.)
 
Regency Fashion Page (Cathy Decker's excellent site with tons of info and images on fashion of fashion magazines of the Regency.)
 
Regency Garderobe (Excellent resource for Regency fashion.)
  The Age of Nudity 1780-1825 (Website documenting a fabulous exhibit of fashion from the collection of the Kent State University Art Museum. Excellent photos and text.)
Military Topics:
  Napoleon's Wars, Mistakes, and Fall (Good overview of the Napoleonic Wars.)
  Admiral Lord Nelson and His Navy (Lots of topics about his life and naval career, sea battles, etc, plus lots of good portrait images)
 
Espionage During the Napoleonic Wars (Short, but excellent, article on spies and spying of the period.)
 
Espionage and Napoleon (Detailed article on Napoleon's spy tactics.)
 
Broadside: Life in the Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (An excellent resource for all things naval, including all aspects of life aboard ship, pay and prize money, press gangs, tactics and strategies, detailed information on the Battle of Trafalgar, and more.)
 
Nelson and His Navy (Good collection of articles on life in Nelson's navy during the Napoleonic wars, sponsored by the Historical Maritime Society.)
 
Shipes of the Old Navy: A History of the Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy (A comprehensive list of Royal Navy ships from the mid-18th through the mid-19th century, with anaecdotal histories of each ships voyages, actions, and crew.)
 
Letters from the Peninsular Wars (Letters to and from 3 brothers in Wellington's Army 1807-1814.)
 
The Napoleonic Guide (Articles on the Napoleonic Wars, primarily from a French perspective, but good bits about the British as well.)
 
Napoleonic Wars Series (Articles, correspondence, dispatches, etc.)
 
Wellington's Dispatches (Complete dispatches from 1808-12, and 1815.)
Miscellaneous:
  Regency Musical Timeline (Excellent work-in-progress detailing music from 1811 to 1820.)
 
Percents and Sensibility: What did early 19th century literary characters live on? (Excellent article in the Economist on personal finance in Jane Austen, providing an overview of Regency investments, etc.)
  The Aldelphi Theatre 1806-1900 (Season by season calendar, summary, and commentary.)
  Hierarchy of the Church of England in 1820 (General info on the hierarch of bishops and vicars and curates, etc)
  A History of British Gardening: Georgian and Regency periods (Brief bios of the most important landscape gardeners of the era, eg Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton.)
  Food and Drink in Regency England (Recipes for popular drinks and foods of the Regency.)
  Leigh's New Picture of London 1819 (Excellent guide to London from 1819, including a wealth of information on subjects ranging from churches and charities, prisons, hackney coach regulations, periodical publications, booksellers, hotels, medicine, and more.)
  Montreal in 1816: Reminiscences of J.H. Dorwin (Excellent insight into what Montreal was like in the early 19th century.)
  Regency Taste (brief overview of Regency architecture styles)
   
 

 

TALES FROM THE TABLOIDS

"On Tuesday, February 26, a duel was fought between Lord Falkland and Mr. Powell, in which the former received a ball in the right side of the belly, of which wound he died on Thursday morning. Lord Falkland dined at Mr. Powell's house with a large party on the Saturday preceding the duel; the party broke up early and Lord Falkland and Mr. Powell went to the Opera together, having taken plenty of wine. They returned from the Opera to Stephenson's Hotel on Bond Street, and parted as they had met, most intimate friends. On Sunday evening, Lord Falkland looked in at Stephenson's again, and on espying Mr. Powell, accosted him with words similar to these: "What, drunk again tonight, Poggy?" It is understood that neither were at this time perfectly sober. Mr. Powell did not relish the mode in which he'd been accosted, and after a retort, Lord Falkland snatched a cane from a gentleman's hand and used it about his friend. On the following morning, Lord Falkland went to Mr. Powell's house and apologized, attributing his rash conduct to inebriation. Mr. Powell observed that he could not accept his lordship's apology, and issued the challenge."

- The Lady's Magazine, March 1809

More Tales from the Regency Tabloids are scattered throughout this website. Find the next one somewhere on this page »

 

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The following links address various aspects of (primarily) British history and society during the 18th and 19th centuries.

 

General History
 
19th Century Timeline of the British Empire (Good general cross-reference of important events in the arts and sciences along with political and social hisotry of the Empire and the World for e ey year of the 19th century.)
 
Age of George III (Good encyclopedic collection of short articles on political and social history 1760-1830.)
 
British History Online (Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, including the excellent series The Victoria History of the Counties of England.)
 
The British East India Company (Good overview of the history of the EIC.)
 
Encyclopedia of British History (Just what it says.)
 
Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Good reference for all aspects of social and political history, with an excellent index to more in-depth articles.)
British Nobility
 
British Titles of Nobility (Excellent explanation of British titles.)
 
Debrett's (Online version of the famous Peerage resource).
 
College of Arms (History, records, how it works, etc.)
  Correct Forms of Address (Excellent explanation of the correct forms of address for British nobility.)
Crime, Criminals, Courts
 
History of the Thames Police (excellent site that includes a detailed account of the Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811
 
Britains' Smuggling History (Excellent site detailing the laws, the men, the goods, etc.)
 
Stand and Deliver! Highwaymen and Highway Robbery (Interesting site devoted to the English highwayman, with articles on the men and the roads.)
  The Rise of Law and the Demise of the Code Duello (Interesting article detailing the legal implications of dueling in Britain and America over two centuries -- ie when was it murder, when was it not?)
 
The Complete Newgate Calendar (A collection of stories about the most infamous crimes and criminals throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.)
 
History of the (UK) Metropolitan Police Service (Excellent site with historical timelines and articles on specific crimes, etc)
 
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674-1834 (Contains the complete proceedings of 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834.)
Fashion, Accessories, etc
 
Revolutionary Fashion (Yes, it's about French fashion, but haven't they always been in the forefront of style? This page has several interesting articles on French fashion 1780-1800.)
 
Court Dress and Uniform (Good overview on Wikipedia.)
 
Costumer's Manifesto (Comprehensive collections of links for all aspects of fashion and fashion history.)
 
Corsets (An excellent overview with illustrations by author Kalen Huges)
 
Fashion-Era (A comprehensive site of all aspects of fashion history.)
 
Museum of Costume, Bath (Website for one of the best costume museums in the world.)
 
The Language of the Fan (Learn all those secret signals you can send with a fan.)
Food and Drink etc
 
At Table: High Style in the 18th Century (Objects used to lay a table, courses of a meal, etc.)
 
Food Timeline (A fun timeline that shows when certain foods were introduced, etc, including some recipes.)
 
History of Tea (Interesting aspects of tea history from the UK Tea Council.)
Maps
 
London Maps (Lots of maps of all or parts of London, from 1553 to 1918)
 
Greenwood's Map of London 1827 (Good map of London. Start with the whole map and click on the area you want to see. Keep clicking to get a closer look.)
 
Horwood's Map of London 1792-99 (Another excellent map of London, but even better than Greenwood's as it includes every house and building, and their street numbers. This is an online version of the map represented in the book The A to Z of Regency London published by the London Topographical Society.)
 
GenMaps "Old and Interesting Maps of England, Wales, and Scotland" (Great site with maps from the 13th to the 19th centuries.)
Money
 
A History of British Currency (Good reference for learning the difference between farthings and shillings and crowns, etc)
 
How Much Is It Worth In Today's Currency? (A fun site where you can enter, for example, £500 and any year between 1264 and 1970, and it will calculate the value in today's money. For example, £500 in 1812 is the equivalent of £21,763.98 today.)
Transportation and Travel
 
Coaching Days and Road Engineers (Good article on the history of roads in England, from about 1760 to 1840.)
 
Post Boys and Mail Coaches (Informative article on the early history of the Royal Mail on the website of the British Postal Museum.)
 
Chair Transport in Bath: The Sedan Chair Era (Good article on the sedan chairs from the book Bath History.)
 
The Stage Coaches of Britain (Good article on the coaches, the coachmen, etc.)
 
Travels in England, 1782 (Complete online transcription of the letters of a young Prussian clergyman, Karl Moritz, as he traveled throughout England in 1782.)
 
William Cobbett's Rural Rides (Originally published as articles in his Politcal Register, this collection of essays on rides through rural areas of England from 1821 to 1826 gives an excellent insight into rural life, togograohy, weather, etc.)
Places of Historic Interest
  A History of Almack's (Excellent 5-chapter treatise on the famous assembly rooms.)
  A Brief History of Vauxhall Gardens (Excellent overview of the history of the famous pleasure gardens. Other pages on the same site offer detailed lists of proprietors, employees, performers, musicians, etc who worked at the Vauxhall from 1745-1849.)
  A History of Vauxhall Gardens (Good overview of the history of the famous pleasure gardens, with lots of pictures.)
  List of houses in Great Britain (Long list of houses, including the nearest town/village and the country.)
Miscellaneous Topics
 
Noire Gloire: 18th Century Mourning Customs in the Time of Revolution (Interesting article on French mourning practices -- which were pretty similar to those in England at the time -- including lots of images of fashion and jewelry).
 
History of British Gardening: Georgian and Regency Characters (Short bios on the key figures in landscape gardening)
  Rules to Period Games (Rules for old card games, board games, etc)
  British Postal History Timeline (Interesting timeline on the Postal Museum site listing key dates and events in the hsitory of mail in Britian.)
 
Two Georgian Schools of Arms (Angelo's Fencing Academy and Gentleman Jackson's Boxing Salon)
 
Code Duello (Complete set of rules established in Ireland in 1777 and used in England until the mid-19th century.)
  Culpeper's Herbal (Complete online version of The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, 1652.)
  Gambling in England (Excellent overview of gambling from the 18th century through the Regency.)
  Gazetteer of British Place Names (Comprehensive place name index.)
  History of the British Newspaper (A timeline history that shows when various newspapers began publication, when certain publication milestones were achieved, eg the inclusion of pictures, changes in the stamp tax, etc.)
  History of Contraception (Website of the History of Contraception Museum in Toronto)
  History of Dance (19th century) (Good information on dances and music. See also the section on the 18th century.)
  History of Pigments (Interesting, but somewhat esoteric, site on the development of artists' pigments over time.)
  Lord Mayors of London (1189 to present)
  Parliamentary Franking System (Brief explanation of the British franking system with lots of images showing examples.)
  UK Patent Office - Copyright History (Short article on how copyrights work, history of the laws, etc.)
   
 

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