Social Customs During The Regency Era

Please note: The long lists of links are arranged by topic in alphabetical order. To learn about Regency customs and life from the people who actually lived in the era, please visit the Original Sources page on top of this blog. 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.)

1. British Culture

• A Guide to English Culture: 1660-1830
• English Culture: British Express
• Georgian England and the Regency
• Regency England (Also see Daily Life below)
• Regency Research: A Megasite of information
• Social Classes in England, 1814: A Chart
• Social England Under the Regency, John Ashton
• Social Season During the Edwardian Era
• The London Life: Great links
• The Regency Library
• The Regency Townhouse

2. Documents:

• 18th Century and Regency Documents

3. Peerage/Precedence

• “Addressing the Duke and Inheriting His Loot”
• Correct Forms of Address
• Order of Precedence in England and Wales
• Precedence: Peerage
• Precedence: Encyclopedia Britannica

4. The Regency Era in General:

• Annie Grace Regency Links
• Candice Hern’s Regency Era
• Firthness.com: Find a variety links on social customs
• Georgian Marriages
• Historical Places and Faces, a glossary
• Regency Hero, 6 page PDF Doc
• Regency Images
• Regency Lexicon
• Regency Links: Anne Gracie
• Resources for Readers and Writers of the Regency Era
• Inside Out: Pride and Prejudice (PDF Doc)
• The Historical and Extended Regency Period
• The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space, and Architecture in Regency London, Jane Rendell, partial book available
• The Regency Reference Book
• The Regency Style’s Debt to Napoleon
• The Regency World
• The Georgian Index: Includes extensive descriptions of the Regency world
• Town Bronze: From A Regency Repository
• Understanding the Society in Which Jane Austen Sets Pride and Prejudice, Pamela Whalan, JASA

Agriculture

• Early Modern Agriculture: PDF doc

Animals, See Pets

Art, Architecture, and Culture

• Arts: A Regency Repository
• Arts and Entertainments
• Art Encyclopedia
• British Architecture and Interior Decoration: Links
• Life in a Country House
• Neoclassicism: The Sister Arts
• Probert: Encyclopedia about architecture
• Regency Portraits
• Regency Townhouse Basics, Gaelen Foley
• Social Classes in England, 1814: A Chart
• The Cartoons of James Gillray
• The Layout of Harewood House: A Country House
• The London Life: Helpful Links
• The Shows of London, Richard D. Altick, 1978
• Timeline of Art History

Coins

• British Coins Before the Florin
• Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living: Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Historic British Coinage: Descriptions

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

Country Houses

• A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses
• From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: The English Country House from Austen to Altman
• Inside an English Country House
• Life in the English Country House, Mark Girouard, partial Google book
• The Country House, JASA

Crime

• 1800’s Rough Justice for Petty Criminals
• Bow Street Runners and the Marine Police
• Bow Street Horse Patrol: Fighting Crime During the Regency Era
• The Dangerous World of Regency London
• The Georgian Underworld
• Capital Punishment in the 18th & 19th Century
• History of Policing: The Bow Street Runners, 1748-1829
• King’s Cutters and Smugglers, 1700-1855, Project Gutenberg Book
• Shipwrecks and smuggling
• Smuggler’s Britain

Daily Life

• A Day in the Life of a Regency Lady: The Regency Townhouse
• Advertising and Satiric Culture in the Romantic Period, John Strachan, 2007, partial Google Book
• Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex
• Common Regency Errors: Regency Life Explained
• Cost of Living in Regency England
• Daily Life in the Regency Era: Eras of Elegance
• Daily Life: The Regency Townhouse
• (The) English Housewife in the 17th & 18th Century, Internet archive
• Family Life in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1913, Kertzer & Barbagli, partial Google book
• History of Taking Tea
• Life in Regency England, R.J. White, book
• Life in the Regency Era: Summer Resorts
• Life in the Regency and Early Victorian Times, Beresford Chancellor, 2007
• Regency Daily Life
• Regency Reference Pages
• The Fashionable Hour in Hyde Park
• The London Season
• The London Season and Leisure Pursuits of the Ton
• The Regency Collection
• Regency Society: Pride and Prejudice
• The Art of Mourning
• The Cost of Living in Jane Austen’s England
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, Poole, partial Google book

Dancing

• Dances from Pride and Prejudice
• Late Eighteenth Century Social Dance
• Formal Balls in Jane Austen Novels and Regency England, Sandra Causey
• From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth Century Dance, Elizabeth Aldrich, 1991
• Regency Dances
• Social Dances of the 19th Century

Dictionaries and Regency Cant (See Vocabulary)

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

• All About Coffee, (history) 1922, William H. Ukers, Project Gutenberg, with illustrations
• A New System of Domestic Cookery:Maria Eliza Rundell, 1807 (American Cookbook based on British recipes.)
• A Taste of History: Georgian Food
• A Dish of Mutton: Jane Austen Centre
• Books for Cooks: British Library
• Cultural Rules of Dining
• Destination: 18th Century Food
• Dining in the Great House: Food and Drink in the Time of Jane Austen, Eileen Sutherland
• Food for Thought: Researching the History of Nutrition, Bibliography
• Food in Jane Austen Novels
• Merry Gourmet Miniatures: Georgian Kitchen Food
• Probert: Encyclopedia about Food
• Regency Drink: Click here for my posts on the topic
• Regency Food: Click here for my posts on the topic
• Regency Recipes, Customs and Manners: Jane Austen Centre
• Social History of the Pineapple
• The Tea Caddy, A History of
• The Torments of Rice Pudding and Apple Dumplings: Jane Austen and Food, PDF Doc

Economics/Money

• Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex
• Cost of Living in Regency England
• Money is Nothing, Cheryl Craig
• Regency money
• Value of British Money Prior to Decimalisation

Fashion (Also visit “Fashion” in my sidebar)

• Accessories of Dress, By Katherine Morris Lester, Bess Viola Oerke, Helen Westermann, 2004, partial Google book
  
• Afternoon Dress, Cathy Decker
• A Regency Era Primer
• Children’s Fashions
• Costumer’s Manifesto
• Costumes of Yorkshire, 1814, New York Library, Digital Collection
• Dressed in Fiction, partial Google Book
• Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XiV to Elizabeth II, Philip Mansel, 2005 partial Google book
• Elizabeth Bennet’s Wardrobe: Undress, Half Dress, Full Dress, Headdress! Making Sense of it All, Linore Rose Burkhard
• Emma Movie Gowns
• English Women’s Clothing in the 19th Century, Cecil Willett Cunnington, 1990, partial google book
• Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and Her World, Jeffrey Nigro
• Evils of Artifice: Cosmetic Use in Europe from the Baroque Age to the Victorian Age, Jolique, 1999
• Fans, Regency
• Fashion Museum: Evening Dress 1804
• Fashion posts on this site
• Georgian Era: Dress of Women – Hoops and Mantua Makers
• Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology
• Hats: A History in Fashion in Head Wear, partial Google book
• History of English Dress in the Late 17th and 18th Centuries
• History of Fashion
• History of Saville Row
• History of Underwear
• Hull Museum Collection: Regency Fashion
• Illustrated Glossary of Victorian Sartorial Terms
• Importance of Wearing White
• Jane Austen’s Pelisse Coat
• Jewelry: Antique Jewelry Glossary
• Jewellery of the Georgian Era: J’antiques and Collectibles
• Jewelry of the Georgian and Victorian Periods: Morning Glory
• Jewelry: Georgian Era Antique Jewelry
• Men’s Clothing: 1811-1812
• Neoclassical Jewelry
• Nineteenth Century Costume and Fashion, Herbert Norris, Oswald Curtis, 1998, Partial Google Book
• Regency Era Fashion
• Regency Dress During Jane Austen’s Time
• Regency Fashion
• Regency Style: Year by Year
• Probert: Encyclopedia of Costume
• The Corset, Valerie Steele, Partial book available, Google Books
• The Culture of Clothing: Daniel Roche and Jean Birrell, 1997, partial Google book
• The Mirror of Fashion for January, 1819
• The Regency and the Rest of the High-waisted Era
• The Regency Fashion Page
• The Road to Elegance and Fashion: Men’s Cravats
• Undressing Your Hero

Food and Drink (See Dining, above, and Food tags in sidebar)

Funerals and Mourning Customs

• About Funerals in the 19th Century
• Mourning Customs
• Question regarding Regency Mourning on Ask Nancy
• Regency Manor House: Scroll to the bottom
• Regency Mourning
• Regency Mourning Clothes
• Royalty, British: Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
• The Victorian Undertaker – radically different from the Regency

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
• The Regency Style

Gardens (See Landscapes and Gardens)

Gentlemanly Pursuits

• A Regency Buck
• Clubs and Club Life in London, John Timbs, 1872, Google book
• Duels and Dueling on the Web
• Dueling: How Dueling Works
• Dueling: The Rules of Dueling
• Dylan’s Fencing Page
• Gentleman’s Clubs
• Gentleman’s Clubs: Regency London
• Gambling in the Regency Era
• Henry Angelo’s Fencing School
• Lord Byron
• Officer and a Gentleman: Education
• Pugilism (Boxing) in Georgian England
• Taking Snuff and Snuff Boxes
• The Exploits of William Douglas – third Earl March, Fourth Duke of Queensbury 1725-1810, or Old Q as he was known
• The Life of Beau Brummell, Esq, Commonly Called Beau Brummell, by William Jesse, 1886,  partial Google book
• The Society for 18th Century Gentlemen

Grand Tour

• Giusseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome, Interactive
• The Evolution of the Grand Tour, Edward Chaney, 1998, Partial Google book

Ladies Endeavors

• Arts and Entertainments
• Becoming a Regency Woman
• Bluestocking Club
• Early Embroidery
• French Hand Fans
• Healthful Sports for Young Ladies, 1822, PDF doc
• History of Embroidery in America: 19th Century
• The Property Rights of Women in 19th Century England
• The Fan Museum, Greenwich
• Regency Fans
• Regency Crafts and Pastimes
• Some Old Time Beauties, Thomas Willing, Project Gutenberg
• Vintage Lace Making
• Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House, Joanna Martin, 2004
• Women and Marriage in 19th Century England
• Women’s Education and Accomplishments : The Republic of Pemberley
• Women’s Legal Position in Regency Times
• Worshipful Company of Fan Makers

Landscapes and Gardens

• A Royal History of Windsor, Great Park
• Garden Mazes
• Parks and Pleasure Gardens of Regency London
• Pleasure Gardens in Georgian and Regency Seaside Resorts: Brighton, 1750-1840, JSTOR
• The Fashionable Hour in Hyde Park
• The London Pleasure Garden of the 18th Century, 1896
• Vauxhall Gardens: 1661-1859
• Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early 19th Century, Heath Schenker, 25 p. PDF doc

Law

• Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in 18th Century England, Lisa Zunshine, partial Google book
• Property Law in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Leisurely Pursuits

• Jane Austen and Leisure, David Selwyn, partial book available
• Entertainment for the People
• The London Season
• Assembly Card Party
• Whist
• Regency Games
• Gambling in Historic England
• History of Almack’s
• Popular 19th Century Card Games
• Street of Famous Clubs
• Then and Now: See London as it was then and how it looks now
• The Pursuit of Pleasure, Jane Rendell, 2002, partial Google book
• The Social Life of Coffee, Brian William Cowan, 2005, partial Google book
• Regency Dances
• Dances from Pride and Prejudice
• Late Eighteenth Century Social Dance
• From the Ballroom to Hell: Grace and Folly in Nineteenth Century Dance, Elizabeth Aldrich, 1991
• Social Dances of the 19th Century
• Lydia in Brighton, PDF document
• Sea Bathing: Read my posts on the topic
• Sea Bathing: Brighton and Hove
• 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,
• Christmas in ritual and tradition, Project Gutenberg

Letters

• Envelope and Letter Folding
• Letters, Letter Writing and Other Intimate Discourse
• Online History of Writing Boxes and Slopes
• Regency Letters: posts on this blog

London

• Chronology of London Bridge
• Old London Street Cries
• Sir John Soane Museum

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
• A Day in 18th Century London: Norton Anthology
• Art of Mourning
• Forms of Address and Titles in Jane Austen, Joan Austen-Leigh
• Manners and Courtesies
• 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
• Presentation at Court
• The Gentlewoman’s Companion: Or, a Guide to the Female Sex
• The Art of Mourning

Maps

• Dickens London Map
• Greenwood’s Map of London
• Images of Early Maps on the Web
• Maps: Scanned Collections Online, British Library
• Old London Maps and Views of the City from the 16th to 19th Centuries
• The Map of Early Modern London

Marriage/Marriage Mart

• Bibliography: Comments from authors on books regarding Marriage & Inheritance Laws and Customs, PDF doc
• Fleet Marriage
• From Fleet Street to Gretna Green: The Reform of Clandestine Marriage, Jennifer M. Payne
• Lord Hardwick’s Marriage Act, 1753
• Marriage Act, 1753
• Marriage Mart
• Marriage Register, An Example
• Regency Life: Marriage
• The History of the Laws of England as to the Effects of Marriage on Property, Courtney Stanhope Kenney, 1879, full book
• The Pursuit of the Heiress, A. P. W. Malcomson, Ulster Historical Foundation,2006

Medicine

• Images of Medical Instruments in the 18th Century
• Student Paper on 19th Century Medicine: Excellent resource for the medical situation in 19th century England.
• The Eighteenth Century Dentist
• The Quack Doctor (blog)
• The Regency Realm: Medicine and Health Bibliography

Money (See Economics)

Mourning (See Funerals)

Music and Songs

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

Occupations

• 18th Century Parish Books
• A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen, Agnes Porter, Joanna Martin 1998
• Directories, including those for occupations
• Handloom Weavers, Rockingham Forest
• Historical Trade Directories
• History of Work, website with images
• Servants (see category below)

Pets, Animals, and Husbandry

• Dogs: From the Regency Ramble Website
• Dogs in Art
• Great Modern Pictures: Dogs
• Georgian England’s Top Dogs: Georgian Index
• History of the Pug
• History of the Bulldog
• The Eighteenth Century Goes to the Dogs
• Picturing Animals in Britain: 1750-1850, Diana Donald, 2007 (Partial google book)
• Regency Horses
• Thoroughbred Heritage: Breeders and Breeding

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
• Ainsworth’s Magazine, 1845
• Sundries: An 18th Century Newsletter (Blog)
• The Literary Gazette, 1828
• The ‘Tuppenny Press And The Birth of English Newspaper
• Journalists: 1750-1820

Religion

• Christmas: Its Origin and Associations, Project Gutenberg
• Jane Austen’s Clergymen

Servants

• Posts about Servants on this blog: Scullery Maid, Maid of All Work, Housekeeper, Footmen, Link boys, etc.
• A Day in the Life of a Maid of All Work
• Books about Fine Households & Domestic Staff Issues
• Domestic Servants, Victorian Web
• Domestic Servants
• Guide to Servants
• Indenture Contract, 1827: Text Indenture Contract, 1827 high resolution copy of original
• The 1900 House: The Scullery
• The Domestic Servant Class in 18th Century England
• The Horror of Dirt: Virginia Woolf and Her Servants, 2008
• The Life and Times of Victorian Servants
• Bricks and Brass:Design of the Scullery
• Servants, Bridget Hill

Shopping

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

Sport

• Abraham Cann, Champion of England
• Beagling in Great Britain
• Classical Fencing and Historic Sportsmanship
• Cricket in England
• Healthful Sport for Young Ladies, PDF book, 1822
• History of Sports and Games: 17th-19th Century
• Fox Hunting History
• BBC News: Fox Hunting, The Issues (Includes a history of fox hunting)
• Race History at Newmarket, Suffolk
• The History of Court Tennis
• Sport and the Making of Britain, Derek Birley, partial Google book
• Sporting and Leisure: Grosvenor Prints (Click on the images)
• Sports, Georgian Index
• Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sport, Tony Collins, 2005

Travel

Also check the extensive travel section under the History tab.

• Archive of this blog’s posts about Regency transportation
• Carriages and their Parts
• Coaches and Carriages
• Discovering Horse Drawn Vehicles
• How Jane Austen’s Characters Got Around
• Road Transport Before the Car, Pages 37-50
• Images of Sedan Chairs
• Stage Travel in Britain: Georgian Index
• The Stage Coaches of Great Britain
• Transportation in the 19th Century
• Transports of Delight: How Jane Austen’s Characters Got Around, Ed Ratcliffe
• Letter Writing, Road Transport, and the Mail

Vocabulary

• 1736 Canting Dictionary
• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
• 18th Century Thieves’ Cant
• A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, 1890
• Age of Sail: Vocabulary Links
• Canting Dictionary
• Heyer’s Cant and Slang
• Regency Lexicon
• Regency Slang, Georgian Index

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: A Companion, Josephine Ross, Rutgers U. Press, 2003, partial book available
• 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

Women (See Ladies Endeavors)

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