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This Jane Austen blog brings Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic.

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This section, devoted to primarily the Georgian and Regency eras, is meant to dovetail with Original Resources and Social Customs. It also includes Victorian resources and a few teacher links:

Jane Austen

Biography, links updated 6-2017

  • Jane Austen: Images on Pinterest board on Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • Above Vulgar Economy: Jane Austen and Money, Sheryl Bonar Craig
  • A Structural Analysis of A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family, 1705-1806
  • A Fine Brush of Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Richard, Jenkyns, 2004, (first 96 pages)
  • A New Portrait of Jane Austen, Melissa Dring, PDF document, Jane Austen’s Regency World, The Jane Austen Center
  • Biography by Jan Fergus, Chapter One, PDF document, Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, Cambridge University Press
  • Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, 2005, Cambridge University Press, ISBN# 0-521-82644-6, click on book preview
  • Jane Austen and Her Art, Mary Lascelles, 1939. Partial Google book – click on book preview
  • Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004, partial Google book, click on book preview
  • Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, Claudia L. Johnson, 1990, partial Google book, preview
  • Jane Austen and the Wars, the Loiterer
  • Jane Austen’s Brothers, Jane Austen Centre Magazine
  • Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity,  Roger Gard, 1994, partial Google book, search inside, click on book preview
  • Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: From Aeshchyllus to Bollywood, Kathryn Sutherland, 2005, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston
  • Jane Austen and 18th Century Courtesy Books, Penelope Joan Fritzer, 1997, partial Google book XX
  • Jane Austen and Co: remaking the past in contemporary culture, Suzanne Rodin Pucci, James Thompson, 2003, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen and the Women of Her Time, What was the place of women in the early 19th century? (Written in English, scroll down)
  • Jane Austen and the French Revolution, 1995, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen in Hollywood, Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield, 2001, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen on Film and Television, Sue Parrill, 2002, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen on Screen, Gina McDonald, Andrew McDonald, 2003, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen, The Parson’s Daughter, Irene Collins, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen: Critical Assessments, Ian Littlewood, 1998, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen and Her Time, Elen and Jim Moody
  • Jane Austen and the Clergy, Irene Collins, 1996
  • Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time, Mary Waldron, 2001, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen in Context, Janet M. Todd, 2005
  • Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Meyer, 1997
  • Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Oliver MacDonagh, 1991
  • Jane Austen’s Art of Memory, Elizabeth Short, 2003, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen’s Obsession With Money, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg
  • Jane Austen’s Economics, 20 page PDF document, Financial Page Group
  • Jane Austen: A Life, David Nokes, Partial Google book
  • Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality, Christopher Brooke
  • Jane Austen & The Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996, Partial Book
  • Janeites, Deirdre Lynch, 2000, partial Google book
  • Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, Elbert Hubbard, 1916
  • Recreating Jane Austen, John Wiltshire, 2001
  • Time Lines Find a variety of time lines pertaining to Jane Austen’s novels, her life and era
  • The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster, 1997, partial Google book preview
  • The Historical Jane Austen, William H. Galperin, 2003, partial Google book
  • The Persuasive and Provincial Jane Austen, Sara Wilson
  • The Peerage.com: The Knights, Knatchbulls, and the Austens family tree
  • Those Elegant Decorums: Discussion of Propriety in Jane Austen’s Novels, Jane Nardin, partial Google book
  • Where’s Where in Jane Austen’s Novels, JASNA
  • Jane Austen at Winchester, Catherine Delors

Jane Austen’s Life

  • Going to Bath With Jane Austen
  • Inside Jane Austen’s house, Chawton
  • The Saga of the Stevenson Parsonage, Jane Austen in Vermont
  • What Men Have Said About Jane Austen
  • Winchester Cathedral and Jane Austen and Family, Catherine Delors
  • Jane Austen by Constance Hill, 1902, Google book

Jane Austen’s Places

  • Jane Austen Places, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • Cobb, Lyme Regis
  • Milsom Street, Bath

Jane Austen’s Friends and Family

  • Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004, partial Google book
  • Parents: George and Cassandra Austen
  • Cassandra Austen: sister
  • Anna Lefroy: friend
  • Rev James Austen: oldest brother
  • Edward Austen Knight: rich brother
  • Henry Austen: favorite brother
  • Henry Austen: Jane Austen’s Perpetual Sunshine, J. David Grey
  • George Austen: invisible brother
  • Francis William Austen: sailor brother
  • Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers, J.H. Hubback, free ebook

Critiques of Jane Austen’s Novels

  • Jane Austen Volume 1, 1811-1870, Edited by B.C. Southam, 1996, partial Google book
  • Jane Austen in Context, Janet Todd, 1995, partial Google book
  • The Historical Austen, William Galperin, partial Google book

The Three Eras: Georgian, Regency, & Victorian

Georgian Era

  • A Companion to 18th Century Britain, H.T. Dickinson, partial Google book
  • Art and History in 18th Century London
  • 18th Century English Music
  • Costume in England: A History of Dress Until the End of the 18th Century, Frederick William Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon, 1896, partial Google Book
  • Court Life Below Stairs, or London Under the Last Georges 1760-1830, Joseph Fitzgerald Malloy, 1882
  • Culture in 18th Century England, A Subject for Taste, Jeremy Black, Partial Google book
  • Daily Life in 18th Century England, Kirsten Olsen, 1999, partial Google book available
  • Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England, Thomas S. Henricks, 1991
  • Dr. Johnson’s London, Liza Picard, 2002, partial Google book
  • England and the English in the 18th Century, William Connor Sydney, 1891
  • Fashioning Childhood in the 18th Century: Age and Identity, Anja Muller
  • Infamous commerce: prostitution in 18th century British literature and culture, Laura Jean Rosenthal, 2006, partial Google eBook
  • Johnsonian Gleanings, full etext, 1909
  • Luxury and Pleasure in 18th Century Britain, Maxine Berg, 2005, partial Google book view
  • Noble Dames and Notable Men from the Georgian Era, John Fyvie, 1911
  • Old London Maps
  • Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal and Visual Readings of British Culture, 1750-1820, Steven J. Gores, 2000, partial Google book
  • Samuel Johnson, 1911, Full etext
  • Side-Lights on the Georgian Period, George Paston, 1901, Google book
  • The Georgian Underworld
  • The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women’s Work in Eighteenth-century Britain, By Isabelle Baudino, Jacques Carré, Marie-Cécile Révauger, Published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005, partial Google book
  • Topic One: The Georgian World, Lecture
  • The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, who Have Flourished in Great Britain, from the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth, By —— Clarke, Published by Vizetelly, Branston and co., 1834, Google book
  • The History of Ballooning
  • Timeline of Scottish History: 1740-1800
  • Travel in Georgian England
  • Little Memoirs of the 18th Century, George Paston, 1901
  • Mrs. Delaney (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, George Paston and Emily Morse Symonds, 1900
  • Survey of Householders, 1790
  • Some Old Time Beauties, Thomas Willing, Project Gutenberg
  • Three Generations of Fascinating Women: And Other Sketches of Family History, by Lady Russell, 1908
  • Wits, Beaux, and Beauties of the Georgian Era, John Fyvie, 1909, Google book
  • Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House, by Joanna Martin, 2004

Regency Era

  • A Regency Bibiography
  • Regency
  • Regency Research
  • Life in Regency England, R.J. White, 1963, some free pages
  • Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times, E. Beresford Chancellor, 1926, Partial Google Book
  • A History of the British Empire in the 19th Century: 1793-1805, Marcus R.P. Dorman, 1902
  • A History of England From the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Sir Spencer Walpole, 1913
  • England 100 Years Ago, John Ashton, 1900, Google eBook
  • The Bolles Collection on the History of London, Tufts University
  • Smuggler’s Britain
  • Sussex Seventy Years Ago: Reminiscences of Nathaniel Payne Blaker, Hove, Sussex, 1919
  • Precedence: Peerage, 1818
  • Prince of Pleasure, Saul David, 2000, Partial google book
  • France in Russia: Hermitage
  • Letter Writing, Road Transport, and the Mail in the Extended Regency Era
  • Nelson and His Navy
  • Empire and Sea Power (also see “war” below)
  • Age of Sail, Regency, and Napoleonic War Links (also see “war below)
  • The 19th Century, Robert Mackenzie, 1880
  • The Beaux of the Regency, Lewis Saul Benjamin, 1908
  • The Dawn of the XIXth Century: A Social Sketch, John Ashton, 1906
  • George IV, E.A. Smith, 2001, Partial Google Book
  • The Life of George the Fourth, including his letters and opinions, By Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, 1881, Google book
  • The Prince Regent and His Mistresses
  • The Prince of Pleasure, Saul David. 2000. Partial Google book.
  • Memoirs of Her Late Majesty Queen Caroline of Great Britain, V 1, by Robert Huish, 1821, Google Book
  • The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A Social Sketch of the Times, John Ashton, 1906, Google eBook
  • The Early Days of the Nineteenth Century in England: 1800-1820, William Connor Sydney, 1898, Google Book
  • Social England Under the Regency, John Ashton, 1898,Internet Archive
  • The Regency Library
  • The Sceptered Isle: 1803-1830 timeline
  • Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston
  • The Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count d’Orsay, Nick Foulkes, 2005

Victorian Era

  • Exquisite Victorian Links
  • Victorian Websites
  • Victorian Studies on the Web
  • Dickens Glossary
  • History in Focus: The Victorian Era
  • Welcome to 1876 Victorian England
  • A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, Herbert Tucker, 1999, Partial Google Book
  • 19th Century Art of Mourning
  • Curiosities of London Life: Phases Physiological and Social, of The Great Metropolis, Charles Manby Smith, 1972, Cass Library of Victorian Times
  • Correct Behavior on a Picnic: Victoriana
  • Daily Life in Victorian England, by Sally Mitchell, 1996. Partial Google book.
  • David Purdue’s Dicken’s Page
  • Food and Cooking in Victorian England, Andrea Broomfield, 2007, partial Google book
  • Writer’s Resources: Victorian Era
  • Queen Victoria During the Regency
  • English Victorian Society
  • Inside the Victorian home: a portrait of domestic life in Victorian England By Judith Flanders, 2004, Partial Google book
  • Victorian Dictionary: Exploring Victorian London
  • Victorian Interiors and More: Blog
  • Victorian London’s middle-class housewife: what she did all day By Yaffa Draznin, 2001, Partial Google book.
  • Victorian Respectability and Gendered Domestic Space, 16 p. PDF document
  • Victorian Servants
  • Video: A Day in the Hayfields, 1904

Mega Sites

  • Archontology: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices
  • Best of History Websites
  • British History Online
  • General Register Office of England and Wales
  • Geograph Britain and Ireland
  • Great Britain and the United Kingdom
  • Historical Autographs
  • History in Focus: University of London
  • History of Holidays
  • London Lives
  • National Archives: UK
  • The Georgian Index
  • The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
  • The Regency Page
  • The Story of London
  • UK Census Online – Incomplete

Agriculture, Plants, and Landscapes

  • 19th Century British Agriculture
  • British History Online: Agriculture
  • Early Modern Agriculture, PDF Doc
  • Enclosure
  • Estate Acts 1600-1830: A New Source for British History, PDF doc
  • Harvard University Herbaria
  • Hay in Art
  • Jarelated: Agricultural Revolution and Jane Austen

Army and Regiments – See War

Antiques from the Georgian/Regency eras

  • About Antiques
  • Chappel and McCullar
  • Georgian Jewelry
  • M. Ford Creech Antiques
  • Oaktree Antiques
  • Ruby Lane: Regency Antiques

Art and Architecture

  • 18th Century Georgian Architecture – Pinterest Board, Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • 18th Century Domestic Architecture: Robert Adam (blog post)
  • 19th Century Landscape in Art
  • Ackermann’s Aquatints
  • Ackermann Prints: Sanders of Oxford
  • Rudolph Ackermann: Town and Country in Miniature
  • Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800
  • English 18th Century Architecture
  • Furniture, scroll down to this section
  • Georgian Architecture, James Stevens Curl, 2002, partial Google Book
  • Georgian Period, a series of measured drawings, William Rotch Ware, 1900
  • Georgian, Regency, and England Today
  • Great British Architects: John Nash
  • Haymarket, Theatre Royal
  • Historic Houses in Bath and Their Associations, Robert Edward Myhill Peach, 1884
  • Bath: The House Historians, Somerset Hill, PDF 108 pages
  • Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • Lawrence (Thomas), Sir Walter Armstrong 1913, Google book
  • Regency Portraits (File on Flickr)
  • London, England, John Stoddard Lectures, 1901, with rare photographs
  • London Houses from 1660-1820: A Consideration of their Architecture and Detail, 1911
  • Modern Architecture: Nash and the Regency, PPT
  • Regency Architecture: Brighton.com
  • Regency Architecture on Flickr
  • Regency Style Architecture: New York Public Library
  • Regent’s Park, London Portrait Magazine
  • Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
  • Researching the History of Country Houses
  • Reynolds, Joshua: Paintings
  • Rose prints by Pierre-Joseph Redoute
  • Sloan’s Architecture: The Late Georgian Period, Samuel Sloan
  • Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period
  • Smith, Thomas and the English Landscape
  • Stubbs, George: paintings
  • The British Country House in the 18th Century, Christopher Christie, 2000, parial Google book
  • The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space & Architecture in Regency London, By Jane Rendell, 2002, partial Google book
  • The Traditional Buildings, Preservation Trust
  • The Works of William Hogarth in a Series of Prints, Project Gutenberg book
  • Rowlandson the Caricaturist, 1880
  • Thomas Rowlandson prints
  • Tragedy Queens of the Georgian Era, John Fyvie, 1909
  • Watercolour Painting in Britain, 1750-1850
  • Weymouth’s Georgian Seafront Architecture and the Local Architect James Hamilton
  • The Portman Estate: The Restoration to the Regency
  • The Regency Style’s Debt to Napoleon
  • The Antiques Marks.com: Find definitions and terminology pertaining to antiques
  • The Pursuit of Pleasure, Jane Rendell, Partial Google Book
  • The History of Art and Design
  • Types of Potteries
  • Vigee Le-Brun, Elizabeth: Paintings
  • Web Gallery of Art
  • Weymouth: Georgian Seafront Architecture
  • William Blake (1757-1827)
  • William Jay, Architect

Biography

  • Beau Brummel: The Ultimate Man of Style, 2006, Ian Kelly, partial Google view
  • Byron, the Years of Fame, Peter Quennell, 2006, partial Google view
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1903, full Google book
  • Emma, Lady Hamilton
  • Perdita, the Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson, Paula Byrne, 2004, partial Google book
  • The Beaux of the Regency, Vol 1, Lewis Saul Benjamin, 1908, full Google book
  • The Beaux of the Regency, Vol 2, Lewis Saul Benjamin, 1908, full Google book
  • The Life of George Brummell, esq: Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Vol 1, William Jesse, 1886, partial Google book
  • The Life of George Brummell, esq: Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Vol 2, William Jesse, 1886, partial Google book
  • The Wits and Beaux of Society, Vol 1, Grace Wharton, 1890, full Google book (Partial book with good illustrations at this link.)
  • The Wits and Beaux of Society, Vol 2, Grace Wharton, 1890, full Google book

Business and Economics

  • 18th century Provincial Tokens
  • British Farthing
  • Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living: Proceedings of the Old Bailey
  • Currency: 19th Century Britain
  • Current Value of Old Money
  • Denominations: the Worth of British Money in 1750
  • Historic British Coinage: Descriptions
  • Competition and Growth of Advertising in the U.S. and Britain 1800-1914, T.A.B. Corley, University of Reading, 14 page PDF document
  • Consumption and the World of Goods, Roy Porter, 1994
  • Her Majesties Mails, an historical and descriptive account of the British post-office, William Lewins, 1864
  • Receipt of Goods Bought at Vale’s, 1767
  • The Cost of Living in Jane Austen’s England
  • Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex
  • Root, Hilton L. The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994.
  • Old East Indiamen, Edward Kebble, Internet Library Book, 1878-1944
  • The Professions in Early Modern England: 1450-1800, Review
  • Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the city of London, John Benjamin Heath, 1869

Charity

  • The Foundling Hospital

Crime (Find more links on this topic on the Social Customs Page)

  • Crime in the Georgian Era, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • Crime and Protest in 18th Century England
  • Early 18th Century Newspaper Reports
  • English Criminal Justice: Law, Ideology and the Gallows in 18th and 19th century England
  • History of the Metropolitan Police Service, since 1829
  • Newgate [Prison] in the Early 19th Century
  • Powys Digital History Project: Crime and Punishment
  • The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913
Education
  • Education in England: A History
  • Some Aspects of Education in Chesire in the 18th Century: Manchester University Press

Entertainments

  • Amusement of Old London,being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century, Volume 2 William Biggs Boulton, 1901, Google eBook
  • English Country Dancing, Wilson, 1815, PDF document (takes a long time to download)
  • Old Colored Books, George Paston, 1905 (Project Gutenberg, with colored plates of men’s diversions)
  • Regency Leisure Activities, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • Tight rope walkers and Equilibrists
  • The Royal Circus

Food and Dining

  • Food, Drink, and Dining in the Georgian Era, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • Georgian flatware

Furniture

  • England: The Regency Style
  • Georgian Furniture and House Interiors, Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • Glossary of Furniture Terms
  • History of the Spoon
  • Miller’s Antique Encyclopedia, partial Google book
  • Neoclassicism and Romanticism – Furniture and Decor
  • Online History of Antique Boxes – includes writing boxes
  • Regency Style: Definition
  • The Regency Style

Geography and British Places (Also look up Jane Austen Places on the sidebar)

  • Alton, Hampshire (where Jane Austen lived)
  • More About Alton, Hampshire
  • Bath History and Facts
  • Bath 1680-1850, A Social History, Or, A Valley of Pleasure, Yet a Sink of Iniquity, By R. S. Neale. 1981
  • Bath, Image of Georgian Bath 1700-2000, Google Book
  • Bottesford Living History
  • British Towns and Villages Network
  • Berkshire History
  • Berkshire: Georgian and Victorian Times
  • Bygone Leicestershire, 1892
  • The Chatsworth Estate: PDF document
  • Chawton House images
  • Cheltenham Spa: Cheltonia, blog about the area
  • Cotswolds History
  • The Cotswolds History and Heritage
  • Derbyshire Records Office
  • East Sussex Through Time
  • English Counties and Parishes
  • English Lakes: A Short History of Cumbria
  • Geograph Britain and Ireland
  • Hamphire Ancestry and Genealogy
  • Hampshire Family History
  • History of Brighton
  • Images of Lambeth
  • Liverpool in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • London, Regency Pinterest Board – Vic (Jane Austen’s World
  • London in the Georgian Era: Flickr photos
  • London: Parish of St. James’s 1774-1833
  • London, Volume 1, Charles Knight, 1841
  • Norfolk: A Place in History
  • Nottinghamshire History
  • Pictures of England.com
  • Rambles Around Bath and its Neighborhood, James Tunstall, 1847
  • Somerset Parish Registers
  • Stories of the Streets of London, Henry Barton Baker, 1899
  • Survey of London, 18th Century
  • Survey of London, 19th Century
  • The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000, partial Google book
  • The Peak District Towns and Villages
  • The Weald of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex
  • UK Genealogy and Archives
  • Victoria County History
  • Village.net for Kent and East Sussex
  • Wiltshire, England
  • Yorkshire

History & Social History

  • Life in the Georgian Era, Pinterest Board, Vic (Jane Austen’s World)
  • The Oxford History of England, Kenneth O. Morgan
  • A Social History of Housing, 1815-1970, John Burnett, Chritopher Powell, 1980, partial Google book
  • Bucks and Bruisers: Pierce Egan and Regency England, John Cowie Reid, partial book
  • Britain: 1750-1900, Walter Robson, 1993, Partial Book Available
  • British History in the 19th Century, 1782-1901, George Macaulay Trevelyan, 2007
  • Child Labour
  • Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867, Christina De Bellaigue, 2007, Partial Google book
  • English Home Life, 1500-1800, Christina Hole, 1919, partial Google book
  • Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800, Anthony Fletcher
  • A Digest of the Laws of Scotland, Hugh Barclay, 1855
  • History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach, by Gayle Kassing, 2007, partial Google book
  • Inns and Taverns of Old London, Henry C. Shelley, 1909
  • The London Water Supply, G. Phillips Bevan, 1884 partial google book
  • Machine Breaking in England and France during the Age of Revolution, Jeff Horn
  • Poverty and Children in the Georgian Era
  • The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
  • Scottish History Online
  • Social History of England, By Louise von Glehn Creighton, Louise Creighton, 1887
  • The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century, Christopher Christie, 2000, Partial Google book
  • The Ordnance Survey Guide to Historic Houses in Great Britain, Peter Furtado, 1987, Partial Google book
  • The Social Life of Coffee, Brian William Cowan, 2005, partial Google book
  • Investigating England and the Slave Trade
  • The Evolution of Parliament, Albert Frederick Pollard, 1920
  • The War Times Journal
  • The Social Character of the Estate: A Survey of Householders c. 1790
  • Trends in Linguistics: The History of English in a Social Context, By Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger
  • Useful toil: autobiographies of working people from the 1820s to the 1920s, John Burnett, partial Google Book
  • Workhouses: an extensive website
  • Atlas of Plucked Instruments: Music
  • British Postal History

Homes and Houses

  • The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home, Peter Mandler, 1999, Partial Google Book

Industrial Revolution

  • Childhood and Childhood Labor in the British Industrial Revolution, Q&A with Professor Jane Humphries
  • History of Work, Information Database
  • Industrial Britain Under the Regency: 1814-1818, W.O. Henderson
  • Some aspects of the 18th Century Woollen and Worsted Trade in Halifax
  • The Industrial Revolution and the Textile Industry

London

  • A Glimpse Into London’s Early Sewers
  • Center for Metropolitan History
  • The Thames: from estuary to Cricklade
  • Westminster Bridge
  • London Archives and Record Offices
  • London Sewers
  • The History of White’s, Algernon Henry Bourke, 1892

Medicine

  • 19th Century Medicine
  • Doctors: Physicians, Surgeons, Dentists, and Apothecaries in England
  • Domestic Medicine, Harvard Digital Library
  • From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in 18th Century Britain, Fiona Haslam, Partial Google book
  • Modern Anesthesia is Developed
  • The Decline of Midwivery in 18th Century England, Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg
  • The Midwife’s Tale: Mary Ballard’s Diary Online
  • The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians in London, 1701-1800, v. 2, 1878

Napoleonic Wars – See War

Original Sources: History

  • Britannia History
  • British History Online
  • British Titles of Nobility
  • Capital Punishment in the U.K.
  • Full Text Documents by Period, Rutgers
  • Historical Autographs: British History, 1800-1950
  • History Digital Library
  • Historical Text Archive
  • Find Social and Historical Resources, such as postage and transportation on this site.
  • The London Pleasure Gardens of the 18th Century, by Arthur Edgar Wroth With sixty-two illustrations, 1896
  • The Microcosm of London: Or, London in Miniature, Vol 1., Author: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843; Combe, William, 1742-1823; Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834; Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827; Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.
  • The Microcosm of London: Or, London in Miniature, Vol 3., by Rudolph Ackermann, William Henry Pyne, William Combe, Augustus Pugin, Thomas Rowlandson, illustrated by Augustus Pugin, Thomas Rowlandson
  • National Archives of the United Kingdom
  • The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George III, Sir Erskine, May 1861
  • Rural Rides, William Cobbett, 1802
  • The Life of Lord Nelson, Robert Southey, 1813
  • A Guide to the Sources of British Military History, Robin Higham, 1971, partial book

Pictorial History

  • London in the Georgian Period: Flickr
  • Museum of London prints

Science

  • Sir Joseph Banks
  • The History of Medicine
  • The London Encyclopedia: or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge. Illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams, Volume 6  Thomas Egg, 1829

Teacher Links

  • Art and Culture: Jane Austen
  • Articles About Jane Austen: NY Times
  • Dom Nicholas’ Writing About Jane Austen: Her Clergy Men
  • In the Footsteps of Jane Austen: The Cultured Traveler
  • Jane Austen: Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources
  • Jane Austen Pathfinder
  • Jane Austen Teacher Resource File
  • Jane Austen: 86 Manually Selected Sites
  • Jane Austen: Reader Responses to Austen’s Novels
  • Jane Austen: Reading Guide
  • Jane Austen: Women’s History, King’s College
  • Literary Gothic: Jane Austen

Trade

  • Old East Indiamen, Edward Kebble, Internet Library Book, 1878-1944
  • The History of Tea in England
  • History of Work, Information Database

Travel and Transportation

  • A Brief History of Transportation in Birmingham
  • A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, Daniel Defoe, 1991, partial book
  • A Treatise on Carriages, Coachmaker William Felton, 1794, Google book
  • Regency Public Transportation: Regency Ramble
  • Carriages and Coaches, Ralph Straus, 1912 eBook
  • Coaching Days and Road Engineers
  • Coaching Days and Ways
  • Ferrybridge Coaching Days, Eric Houlder
  • Early Carriages and Roads, Sir Walter Gilbey, 1903
  • Early Roads and Modes of Traveling
  • Grand Tour
  • Highways and Horses, Athol Maudslay, 1888
  • History of the Sparrows Herne Turnpike
  • Italy and the Grand Tour, Jeremy Black, 2003, Partial Google Book
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  • History of Ballooning
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  • Wheels: A Pictorial History

War

  • Age of Sail. Regency, and Napoleonic Wars
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  • Clothing Warrant of 1768: His Majesty’s Warrant for the Regulation of the Colours, Clothing, etc of the Marching Regiments of Foot, PDF document
  • Feeding Nelson’s Navy, Janet McDonald, 2006, partial Google book
  • Field Marshall His Grace the Duke of Wellington
  • History of the Sailing War Ship in Marine Art
  • Horatio Nelson and the Royal Navy
  • Lossing’s Field Book of the War of 1812, 1869
  • Napoleon.org
  • Nelson’s Navy
  • Nelson’s Royal Navy
  • Index of Napoleonic Titles Available Through Electronic Databases
  • Joyfull Molly: Naval and Historic links and resources
  • Late 18th, 19th, and Early 20th Century Naval Records
  • Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson
  • Lord Nelson and How Raisins Helped Him Win the Battle of Trafalgar
  • Napoleon Guide
  • Napoleonic Portrait Gallery (Forum, American Military University)
  • Napoleon’s Symbols of Power
  • Nelson’s 1805 Battle Plan
  • Royal Engineers Museum
  • The British Navy During Napoleonic Times
  • The Trafalgar Captains: Their Lives and Memorials, Colin White, 1805 Club, partial Google book
  • Website about Admiral Lord Nelson
  • Timeline: War Against Napoleon: 1793-1815

Working Classes

  • History of the Workhouse
  • New Discoveries at Jamestown: This Project Gutenberg book shows how skillful ordinary rural people had to be in order to live in a small community.
  • Obscure Old English Occupations

Additional and Miscellaneous Resources

  • 17th Century Women
  • Jane Austen in Hollywood, by Linda Troost (Editor) and Sayre Greenfield (Editor). University Press of Kentucky, 82 pages on view.
  • Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen, Barbara Britton Wenner (Partial pages available.)
  • Jane Austen and the History of Landscape, by Mavis Batey, Review
  • Jane Austen and the Women of Her Time, translated from Dutch
  • The Talk in Jane Austen, Edited by Bruce Stovel and Lynn Weinloss Gregg, 1999
  • Channel 4 History
  • Andrew Cusack: The History Archives
  • Historic Glass Bottle Identification
  • Brewery History
  • Costume of Yorkshire, 1814: New York Public Library, Digital Library
  • Late 17th Century Clothing History

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