The Regency History blog is five years old!

I can’t believe that it is five years since I started this blog! I wrote my first post – What is the Regency? – back in October 2011 and there are now 270 posts on the Regency History blog. My husband, Andrew, has been contributing posts since 2014 and this blog is now very much a joint venture.

According to Google analytics, there have been over 800,000 page views with around 80% of visitors coming to the site through organic search - that is, people have searched for a subject and clicked through to a page on the Regency History blog from the search results.

The all-time top ten posts on the Regency History blog (per Google analytics) are:

1. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire 

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
by Thomas Gainsborough
in South Sketch Gallery, Chatsworth

2. When is the Regency era?
 

Ball dress
from La Belle Assemblée (1816)

3. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Queen Victoria's father)

HRH Edward, Duke of Kent
from A Biographical Memoir of Frederick,
 Duke of York and Albany by John Watkins (1827

4. Lady Elizabeth Foster

Lady Elizabeth Foster, later Duchess of Devonshire,
in South Sketch Gallery, Chatsworth

5. Queen Charlotte

Queen Charlotte from Memoirs of HM Sophia
 Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz
  by William Marshall Craig (1818)

6. The rise and fall of Beau Brummell

George Brummell
from The History of White's
 by Hon Algernon Bourke (1892)

7. When was the London season?

The first quadrille at Almack's
from The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow (1889)

8. Headdresses and hairstyles for Regency evenings

9. Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland

HRH Ernest, Duke of Cumberland
from A Biographical Memoir of Frederick,
 Duke of York and Albany by J Watkins (1827)

10. George IV

George IV
from La Belle Assemblée (1830)