Social Customs During The Regency Era

To learn about Regency customs and life from the people who actually lived in the era, please visit the Original Sources page. You will find many of the resources you are seeking there.

British Customs, Including Love, Courtship, and Inheritance (Also visit “British Links” in my sidebar.)

• “Addressing the Duke and Inheriting His Loot”
• Precedence: Peerage
• Correct Forms of Address
• 18th Century and Regency Documents
• Town Bronze: From A Regency Repository
• Georgian Marriages
• Regency Hero, 6 page PDF Doc
• Inside Out: Pride and Prejudice (PDF Doc)
• English Culture: British Express
• The Regency Reference Book
• The Georgian Index: Includes extensive descriptions of the Regency world
• Candace Hearn’s Regency Era
• The London Life: Great links
• Annie Grace Regency Links
• Regency England
• Firthness.com: Find a variety links on social customs
• Historical Places and Faces, a glossary
• Social Classes in England, 1814: A Chart

Art, Architecture, and Culture

• Regency Portraits
• Arts: A Regency Repository
• Arts and Entertainments
• Life in a Country House
• Neoclassicism: The Sister Arts
• Social Classes in England, 1814: A Chart
• The Art of Mourning

Cookery

• Mechanical Roasting on the Hearth
• All Manner of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France From the Middle Ages to the Present, Stephen Mennell, 1995
• Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain, John Burnett, 1999 (From the 17th century to the present.)
• Cookery links on this blog: please click on home, and look on the side bar for a list of links. Original cookery books are listed under Original Sources.
• Dining, see category below

Crime

• The Georgian Underworld
• Capital Punishment in the 18th & 19th Century

Daily Life

• Regency Daily Life
• Regency Reference Pages
• A Guide to English Culture: 1660-1830
• A Day in the Life of a Regency Lady: The Regency Townhouse
• The Fashionable Hour in Hyde Park
• The London Season
• Life in the Regency Era: Summer Resorts
• The Regency Collection
• Daily Life in the Regency Era: Eras of Elegance
• Regency Society: Pride and Prejudice
• The Cost of Living in Jane Austen’s England
• Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex

Dining (Also visit “Food and Cookery” in my sidebar and look under “Original Sources”)

• Regency Recipes, Customs and Manners: Jane Austen Centre
• Cultural Rules of Dining
• Destination: 18th Century Food
• A New System of Domestic Cookery:Maria Eliza Rundell, 1807 (American Cookbook based on British recipes.)
• A Taste of History: Georgian Food
• Merry Gourmet Miniatures: Georgian Kitchen Food

Fashion (Also visit “Fashion” in my sidebar)

• Georgian Era: Dress of Women - Hoops and Mantua Makers
• Regency Fashion
• A Regency Era Primer
• The Regency Fashion Page
• Regency Style: Year by Year

Furnishings

• Decorative Arts and Design History: Gothic Revival and Design
  
• English Period Furniture: 1800-1830
• The Regency Period (PDF Doc) 1800-1830
• Regency Era Furnishings: From Ackermann’s Repository 1809-1812
• Regency Style Decoration
• Georgian and Regency Antique Sideboards

Gentlemanly Pursuits

• A Regency Buck
• Gentleman’s Clubs
• Gentleman’s Clubs: Regency London
• Gambling in the Regency Era
• The Exploits of William Douglas - third Earl March, Fourth Duke of Queensbury 1725-1810, or Old Q as he was known
• Duels and Dueling on the Web
• Henry Angelo’s Fencing School

Ladies Endeavors

• Women’s Education and Accomplishments : The Republic of Pemberley
• Women’s Legal Position in Regency Times
• The Property Rights of Women in 19th Century England
• History of Embroidery in America: 19th Century
• Early Embroidery
• Arts and Entertainments

Landscapes and Gardens

• Vauxhall Gardens: 1661-1859
• Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early 19th Century, Heath Schenker, 25 p. PDF doc

Leisurely Pursuits

• The London Season and Leisure Pursuits of the Ton
• The London Season
• Assembly Card Party
• Whist
• Regency Games
• Gambling in Historic England
• History of Almack’s
• Street of Famous Clubs
• Then and Now: See London as it was then and how it looks now
• Regency Dances
• Dances from Pride and Prejudice
• Social Dances of the 19th Century
• The Level: A Leisure Area Since Regency Times
• The Silhouette in Georgian and Regency England
• Theatre Royal: Drury Lane
• Haymarket: Theatre Royal
• Theatrical London
• Parks and Pleasure Gardens
• Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
• Vauxhall Gardens
• The History of Ballooning
• Mother, I’m bored: Or How a Young Lady Found Amusement in the Regency Countryside, by Susan Marie Knight, PDF document,

London Pubs, Inns, Taverns, Tea Houses, and Coffee Houses

• The London Coffee House: A Social Institution, Rakehell
• The Devil’s Ordinary: Consuming Public Culture in the Coffee-House

Manners and Customs

• Posts about Manners and Etiquette on this Blog: Calling Cards, The Regency Fan, Dancing, etc.
• A Sample of Regency Manners
• Art of Mourning
• O, Tempora, O Mores!: A column of advice on manners and etiquette, by Arbiter Elegantiae
• Calling Cards and Stationery
• Instances of Ill Manners to Be Avoided by the Youth of Both Sexes
• Becoming Mannered: YouTube Video, James McAvoy
• The Laws of Etiquette by a Gentleman, 1837
• On Vulgarity and Affectation, William Haslitt, From Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners, 1822
• Peerage Basics
• Peerages in Order of Preference
• The Gentlewoman’s Companion: Or, a Guide to the Female Sex
• The Art of Mourning

Music and Songs

• Romantic Era Songs: A Site Devoted to Theatre and Popular Songs
• The Universal Songster, Jones and Co, 1834

Pets, Animals, and Husbandry

• Regency Horses
• Dogs: From the Regency Ramble Website
• Georgian England’s Top Dogs: Georgian Index
• History of the Pug
• History of the Bulldog
• The Eighteenth Century Goes to the Dogs
• Dogs in Art
• Great Modern Pictures: Dogs

Publications

• Ladies’ Pocket Magazine: 1824-39
• Newspapers and Magazines
• Ackermann’s Costume Plates: Stella Blum, 3 selected pages
• La Belle Assemblee and Ackermann’s Costume Plates
• The ‘Tuppenny Press And The Birth of English Newspaper
• Journalists: 1750-1820

Servants

• Posts about Servants on this blog: Scullery Maid, Maid of All Work, Housekeeper, Footmen, Link boys, etc.
• The 1900 House: The Scullery
• Bricks and Brass:Design of the Scullery

Shopping

• Posts about Shopping on this Blog
• Regency England: Shops and Stores
• More Regency Shopping: Regency Ramble

Sport

• Beagling in Great Britain
• Classical Fencing and Historic Sportsmanship
• History of Sports and Games: 17th-19th Century
• Fox Hunting History
• BBC News: Fox Hunting, The Issues (Includes a history of fox hunting)
• The History of Court Tennis
• Sporting and Leisure: Grosvenor Prints (Click on the images)
• Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sport, Tony Collins, 2005

Travel

• Carriages and their Parts
• Road Transport Before the Car, Pages 37-50
• Stage Travel in Britain: Georgian Index
• Transportation in the 19th Century
• Letter Writing, Road Transport, and the Mail

Vocabulary

• Regency Lexicon
• Canting Dictionary

General

• Georgian England and the Regency
• Books on Social Customs: London, Bryn Mawr College Bibliography
• Life in Regency England, White and Batsford, partial book is available
• Jane Austen and Leisure, David Selwyn, partial book available
• Georgian, Regency, and Victorian Research
• The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space, and Architecture in Regency London, Jane Rendell, partial book available
• Understanding the Society in Which Jane Austen Sets Pride and Prejudice, Pamela Whalan, JASA
• Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture, Richard Handler & Daniel Alan Segal, 1999, partial book available
• Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996
• Writer’s Resources:Includes extensive links to historical and social sites

Societies

• The Beau Monde
• We Make History

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