Top 30 posts from 10 years of blogging on the Regency History blog

Me (Rachel Knowles) with my husband Andrew
at White Nothe, Dorset (2021)

This month I’m celebrating 10 years of the Regency History blog. I started this blog to record and share the research I was doing into the Regency period (1811-20) as background for The Merry Romances. I became distracted by the history and expanded my research to cover what I call the long Regency – from about 1780-1830. 

 

You can read what I mean by this in my all-time top post: When is the Regency era? 

 

As a result of my research, I decided to set the first book, A Perfect Match, in 1788-9, some 20 years before the start of the Regency. The five sequels tell the stories of the children from the couple who got together in the first book. A Reason for Romance is set in 1810 and A Single Obsession (due to be published in 2022) is set in 1811. 

 

My first post went up on this blog on 1 October 2011 and this is my 357th blog post (not including pages). I’ve researched lots of different areas of Regency era life as well as some of the people who lived in late Georgian Britain and the places they lived in and visited. I’ve blogged about exhibitions and events and posted reviews of historical non-fiction and clean Regency era romance as well as cheat guides to some of the classic novels of the period. 

 

You may have read lots of these posts or perhaps you have only recently discovered my blog. You will find a list of what I’ve blogged about here or in the index tab, except for my Regency romance reviews which have got their own index under Regency reviews. 

 

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My all-time top 30 posts (clickable links)

 

#1: When is the Regency era?

 

 

#2: When was the London season?

 

#3: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

 

#4: A Regency History guide to dukes, marquesses and other titles

 

 #5: Hair powder and pomatum

 

 

#6: The Grand Tour 

 

 

#7: Curricles, gigs and phaetons in the Regency 

 

 

#8: What is the haut ton? 

 

 

#9: Lady Elizabeth Foster, later Duchess of Devonshire 

 

 

#10: Headdresses and hairstyles for Regency evenings 

 

#11: A genuine Almack's voucher 

 

 

#12: 30 Beau Brummell quotes and anecdotes 

 

#13: The Bachelor Duke - William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire

 

#14: Where Mr Darcy walked - film locations used in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice 

 

 

#15: Who was 'Silly Billy'? 

 

 

#16: 25 quotes from Pride and Prejudice 

 

 

#17: Vauxhall Gardens in the Regency 

 

 

#18: Marriage of minors in Regency England 

 

 

#19: How to behave in a Regency ballroom 

 

 

#20: Carlton House - a Regency History guide 

 

 

#21: Regency History's guide to Almack's Assembly Rooms 

 

 

#22: Georgian architecture - a Regency History guide 

 

 

#23: The rise and fall of Beau Brummell 

 

 

#24: Finding your way around Vauxhall Gardens in Regency London 

 

 

#25: A Regency History guide to titles for married daughters of dukes, marquesses and other peers 

 

 

#26: The Gold State Coach at the Royal Mew, Buckingham Palace 

 

 

#27: Georgian watchmen - security on the night-time streets 

 

 

#28: Mrs Fitzherbert – the future George IV’s secret wife

 

 

#29: Regency introductions - a Regency History guide 

 

 

#30: The Whigs and the Tories

 

 

Rachel Knowles writes clean/Christian historical romance set in the time of Jane Austen. She has been sharing her research on this blog since 2011. Rachel lives in the beautiful Georgian seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset, on the south coast of England, with her husband, Andrew.

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