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The articles posted here are dedicated to the memory of Georgette Heyer in gratitude for the many hours of enjoyment her books have given me. She was an artist with words whose meticulously researched novels never fail to transport me to the Georgian or Regency eras.
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Tag Archives: Regency Bicentennial
A Regency Bicentennial: Byron Hides Authorship of The Waltz
This coming Sunday marks the two hundredth anniversary of the writing of a letter by Lord Byron in which he directed his publisher to deny any claims that he was the author of a satirical poem entitled The Waltz. Byron … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: Prinny and the Head of Charles I
At about two o’clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday, 30 January 1649, King Charles I stepped through the northern-most second-storey window of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, from which the window frame had been removed, onto a scaffold which had … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: Pride and Prejudice Published
This coming Monday, 28 January 2013, marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of one of the best-loved novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Most scholars believe that the original version of Pride and Prejudice was … Continue reading
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Cary’s London Map of 1818
Recently, I came across a wonderful Regency resource in a most unexpected place. It is an online copy of John Cary’s 1818 map of the London metropolitan era. Remarkably, it is hosted on the web site of the UCLA School … Continue reading
1812: The Year in Review
This year marks the bicentennial of the second year of the English Regency. It was a momentous year for both the Regent and the country over which he ruled for his ailing father, King George III. Though there were some … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: The Francillon Memo
Two hundred years ago, this coming Wednesday, a London jeweller signed and dated a memo which included a hand-colored drawing and a description he had just completed of a large blue diamond never before seen in England, certainly not publicly. … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: Wellington Whoops with Delight and Turns the French Tide
This coming Sunday marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the decisive battle in the Peninsula by which was broken the iron grip that Napoleon had held on Spain. Known as the Battle of Salamanca, though it did not completely rout the … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: Napoleon Crosses the Niemen
This coming Sunday marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the day Napoloen Bonaparte took the step that would break his Grande Armée and lead to his ultimate defeat in Belgium, almost exactly three years later. It was on Wednesday, 24 June … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: American Declares War on Britain
Two hundred years ago, this coming Monday, the American President, James Madison, signed a document which brought his country into conflict with the same country against which America had successfully rebelled only three decades previously. This war, unlike many curiously … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: The Trial and Execution of John Bellingham
Last week, we left John Bellingham in government custody, confined in Newgate Gaol on the night of 11 May 1812. Earlier that afternoon, in Westminster Hall, he had publicly shot and killed the British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, just as … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: The Assasination of Spencer Perceval
Two hundred years ago, today, the de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain was assassinated at Westminster, by a man who did not even know him. But the assassin blamed the British government for most of his business problems and … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: A Baron Gets the Boot — Part Three
Last week, I left Ferdinand, Baron de Géramb, once again on board ship, this one sailing from the English port of Dover, bound for Denmark. He had so annoyed the British authorities that they had used the Aliens Act of … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: A Baron Gets the Boot — Part Two
Last week, I began the curious tale of the largely unknown, but quite fascinating, nineteenth-century Slovakian aristocrat and adventurer, Ferdinand, Baron de Géramb. When we left him last week, he had sailed aboard an English frigate out of the Spanish … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: A Baron Gets the Boot — Part One
Two hundred years ago this month, a mustachioed and eccentric Slovakian Baron was ordered out of England under the so-called Aliens Act. Already having had a number of adventures on the Continent, in less than two years, Baron Ferdinand de … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: The Luddites & the Ides of March
Next Thursday, which also happens to be the Ides of March, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the first large-scale Luddite attack in Yorkshire. This was not the first Luddite attack in England, but it was the largest and most destructive … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: Lord Byron’s Maiden Speech
This coming Monday, 27 February 2012, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the first speech that Lord Byron made in Parliament. Though Byron had first taken his seat in the House of Lords in March of 1809, a few weeks after … Continue reading
A Regency Bicentennial: Prinny Takes All!
But what did he do with it? This coming Monday, 6 February, marks the bicentennial of the first anniversary of the inauguration of the Regency. But, for the Prince Regent, that day was not just a simple anniversary. It was … Continue reading
