Regency Events: Luddite Uprisings

We wrote a bit about Luddites before, but wanted to focus today on a significant date in this trajectory: the first Luddite “attack” on textile Continue

We wrote a bit about Luddites before, but wanted to focus today on a significant date in this trajectory: the first Luddite “attack” on textile Continue

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

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
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