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Life in the Regency Era is fascinating research. This page is devoted to key sites dealing with life in this period.
With very few exceptions, descriptions are not my opinions but excerpts pulled from the sites. Each link will open in a new page. 
Regency Life
- 19th Century Etiquette
- An 1890s guide to Etiquette for English Gentlemen or, how to keep yourself from looking like an ass if you happen to go back in time.
- Social Changes Before 1815
- Topics are:
- Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions,
- The Loss of the Peasantry,
- New Inventions - The Spinning Jenny,
- The Poor Law,
- 1812 Bad Harvest,
- The Results of the Industrial Revolution,
- Steam Power,
- Factory Towns,
- Factory Conditions Pre 1815,
- The Emergence of a New Social Class,
- The Fashion for Smocks,
- Smocking.
- Going to Bath
- 8PM - Leaves GPO, Arrives at Gloucester Coffee House on Piccadilly to pick up passengers, 11 miles to Brentford at 9:20pm
- Gas Lighting
- Gas was a new and exciting at the start of the nineteenth century. It was barely known anywhere outside London.
- Regency Art
- Arts, antiquities, architecture, music, composers, singers, theater.
- Regency Education
- Education in Regency England was in nowise equal - not between the sexes, and not between the classes. Gentlemen would be educated at home by a governess or tutor until they were old enough to attend a public school.
- Country Home Life
- Here are a few samples of cookery and housekeeping books covering roughly the period of Georgette Heyer's novels, and also some information on the "Fox and Geese" board game.
- Regency Christmas Recipes
- Listing includes: Christmas Puddings, Christmas Cakes, Ginger Bread/biscuits, Vinegar Pies as well as Georgian Recipes.
- Medication and Drugs
- Good drugs, medication and modern surgical techniques mean that we are able to deaden much of what would make us uncomfortable, or plainly put us in agony. This was not the expectation 200 years ago.
- London Clubs
- In 1800 there were only a few gentleman's clubs functioning in London: Whites, Brookes's, Boodles, the Cocoa-Tree, and Grahams. There were also a number of other clubs that operated without premises …
- The Dandy
- The Dandies were no prissy class of gentlemen, or mincing walkers as their elegant forebears, the Macaroni's, had been. They were the well dressed, witty and elegant men of a new generation. Led by George 'Beau' Brummell.
- Whig or Tory
- Politics in the late eighteenth century England could be broadly divided into two diametrically opposed camps - Whigs and Tories. What separated them?
- Timeline of the Kings and Queens of England
- Timeline and facts about the Kings and Queens who have ruled England, Wales and (from the time of James I) Scotland.
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Horses and Carriages
- A selection of Georgian Coaches
- Four Wheelers: Phaeton, Barouche, Landau, Landaulet.
Two Wheelers: Curricle, Cabriolet, Stanhope, Tilbury, The Dennet, the Coaching Life.
- Transportation in the 19th Century
- In the beginning of the 19th century, the main mode of transportation was the horse and carriage. It wasn't until the latter part of the century that railways changed people's lives and habits. But even after the advent of the railway, remote areas still relied on the horse for local transport. Following is a brief summary of the types of vehicles used to get around.
- Traveling Carriages
- Four-Wheeled Carriages - Early open carriage - Chaise, Calash, Phaeton - Carosse, Carosse-Coupé - Landau - Four-Seater Closed Berlin, Berlin-Coupé, Berlin-Calash, Berlin-Phaeton, Berlin-Chaise - English Coach, English Coupé - German Travelling Carriage - Stage-Wagons and Stage-Coaches - Steel Springs. (Part V: The English Coupé or Post Chariot).
- The Mail Coach
- The mail coaches were quite specific about what was allowed and what wasn't as far as passengers and parcels.
- Turnpike Trusts
- The 18th Century saw more than 1,007 turnpike acts were passed. The main means of improving the road system was to tax the people who used the roads. So what were these acts? Why were they necessary? And what did they do?
- Coaching Stories
- Inside. Crammed full of passengers — three fat, fusty, old men — a young mother and sick child — a cross old maid — a poll parrot — a bag of red herrings …
- Coaching History
- The Regency period marked the beginning of the great age of coaching. From around 1810 to the 1830's, coaches ruled the newly sealed roads and reached fantastic speeds of around 12 miles per hour …
- Driving Tips
- How to Hold the Reins - Start with the reins in the left hand and the whip in the right. Reins shouldn't be held in both hands and up around the nose with and the hands 8-12 inches apart.
- Gentlemen Coachmen
- Coach driving had a romantic and adventurous tinge to it for young gentlemen of the Regency. There had long been clubs such as the Bensinton Driving Club and the Four Horse Club to which gentlemen of the ton would hone their skills.
- Postillions
- … the whole thing is being driven by two postillions. One on each pair of horses. The pair of horses nearest the carriage are called the 'wheelers' and the other pair are the leaders …
- The Coaches - Methods of Traveling
- Informative page about coaches and coachmen. How they were used and hired for use.
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Regency Weddings & Marriage
- Regency Weddings
- Many of today's traditional wedding customs saw the light at the beginning of the 19th century and the first known fashion plate representing a bride wearing a white dress and a veil appears in 'Le Journal des Dames et Des Modes' of 1813.
- Entails, Marriage Settlements, & Dower
- This site is still under construction, but Laura Wallace has put together a wonderful Regency resource site. Keep coming back to this one. The information that is there already is quite good.
- Marriages
- Regency marriage licenses, fleet marriages, Scottish marriages, Gretna Green, marriage to deceased wife's sister …
- The White Wedding Dress
- Today the traditional bride wears white but how was it in Regency times? Did women wear white back then and if they didn't, what did they wear? When was the white wedding dress introduced?
- Regency Weddings, Hanover Square
- In Regency times weddings were mostly private affairs. Even fashionable weddings at the church of choice for that day were but sparingly attended. Today's lavish weddings seem to be a product of the Victorian rather than the Regency era.
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