Category Archives: Regency Events

Pre-Regency Events: The Paving and Lighting Act of 1766

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New Picture of London, 1820 In the Georgian era, ahead of the industrial revolution and after over 50 years of “obsession with the paving of Westminster’s Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Corsets for the Country

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Appearing in the 1817 Ackermann’s Repository, this ad for corsets promises even those languishing provincially may have a London corset fitted to form: The image Continue →

Regency Mystery: The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathhurst

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The disappearance of a British Diplomat in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars is perhaps not so mysterious to today’s reader.  But imagine its November 1809, Continue →