Regency Reader Questions: Animals at the Tower in 1815

Royal Menagerie c. 1816

Regency Reader Question What animals were on display at the Tower of London in 1815? How much did it cost to go see them? Was Continue

Regency Reader Questions: Illegitimacy in the Church Records

Regency Reader Question How common was it for the paternity of illegitimate children to be acknowledged in church records in this period? Source of Question Continue

Regency Reader Question: Turnip as an Insult

Regency Reader Question In Georgette Heyer’s novel, “The Grand Sophy”, the heroine goes to a backstreet, crooked moneylender, Goldhanger by name, and recovers Hubert’s pledge Continue