It appears certain fashion trends were cause for much derision—high shirt points, choking cravats, baggy pants… Have people changed or just trends?
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…
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
A Quick Look at the Academe classes coming up next month.
The Beau Monde proudly presents a round-up fo the best historical blog posts over the last couple of weeks. Our Assembly Room is going to be a regular feature, so we hope to encounter you at our next Regency Assembly.
Many thanks to Beau Monde member, Angelyn Schmid, for finding these.
June 18 is the 208th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the epic 1815 encounter that put an end once and for all to Napoleon’s dream of conquering Europe.
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.
