William Wilberforce is featured on The Beau Monde Chapter’s Regency Promenade.
Article written by Nancy Mayer. William Wilberforce is now well -known for leading the parliamentary fight for abolition of slavery in England.
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: And why should you care? Well, it was everywhere during the Regency, and the word actually referred to more than one material, each of which could be put to a different purpose, though all were somewhat similar in appearance. The uses for shagreen ranged from carpentry to scientific instruments…
In today’s article, Cheryl Bolen gives us a glimpse of the extent of the rage for all forms of gambling in the late Georgian era, which includes the Regency. Some of the tales she tells would probably be rejected by today’s Regency romance editors as completely unbelievable and yet, they are all true. How the…
Regency Glossary by Donna Hatch ( Part 2) Carriages. People in Regency England depended upon either horseback or carriage to get around.
Regency Glossary by Donna Hatch Part 1. Lots of Regency authors, especially the members of The Beau Monde Regency Romance Chapter, use glossaries to explain words no longer in common use. The Beau Monde will post some of these, bit by bit, and then combine them to make a larger glossary.
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: Over the years, I have read a number of biographies of George IV, as well as biographies of some of those who made up his circle. There were always brief, sometimes vague, references to one shadowy member of that circle, Sir William Knighton. But the substance of the man…
The Origins of the Modern Look Men’s Clothing 18th Century – 21st Century by Maggi Andersen. I don’t pretend to be an expert on fashion. I wanted to show some of the changes which have taken place over the last few hundred years to men’s clothing, as well as the styles which have remained constant.
Regency Dueling Protocol by Donna Hatch
Regency Duelling Pistols – In England, dueling was part of a long-standing code of honor, far beyond a mere tradition. Gentlemen took their dueling very seriously; they would rather die than be dishonored.
In our Regency Promenade today, Nancy Mayer looks at Beau Brummell. Beau Brummell (1778 – 1840) I do not like Beau Brummell and think he has been credited with more than he accomplished. George Brummell was born in 1778. His father is said to have been a private secretary to Lord North, who was prime Minister of England from 1770- 1782….
A cross-post from The Regency Redingote: Truth or fiction? Essentially, true. Though mathematics confounded him and he was by no stretch of the imagination a computer programmer himself, Lord Byron was the father of the very first computer programmer, his daughter, Augusta Ada Byron. Impossible? Computers are a twentieth-century invention, right? Not so.