What Life Was Like (Regency Research)

Everyday items and facts about life during England's Regency and late Georgian period--from dueling pistols to dinner menus, playbills to pianofortes.
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Early 19th Century White Opaline Perfume Bottle with Desvignes Decoration
For Sale on 1stDibs - White, opaline crystal flask and its flattened stopper, decorated with a gilded, radiant flower on top. Gilded stripes surround the collar, and a ring
Victorian Etched Glass Perfume Bottle. Provenance. For Sale on Ruby Lane
Victorian Etched Glass Perfume Bottle. Provenance. : Antiquesilverboxes | Ruby Lane
Illustration of Astley's Amphitheatre | The British Library
Illustration of Astley's Amphitheatre from 1808-10. Astley’s Amphitheatre is often considered to be the first genuine British ‘circus’ owing to its many features that are still familiar today. Horses travelled at speed around a ring while acrobats and clowns also topped the bill. The Amphitheatre, however, combined other elements of performance more akin to traditional theatres, such as drama and song. (From British Library)
Press Release - New Exhibition Examines British Regency Period in Commemoration of its 200th Anniversary
A genuine ladies voucher to Almack's from April 1817. This one was issued to Anna Elizabeth Grenville, Marchioness of Buckingham. [Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens]
Image gallery: The mistletoe or christmas gambols
Interior of a hall with couples dancing, a man in centre holding a girl off the ground under a bunch of mistletoe; appears to be trimmed above publication line Stipple
Waltzing
An early-1800s print depicting the scandalous nature of waltzing during the Regency (from NY Public Library).
Voucher to Almack's
A voucher to a ball at Almack’s assembly rooms in London. Only society’s elite were granted these coveted passes. To be stricken from the list was social disaster. This voucher was issued in 1817 to Anna Elizabeth Grenville, Marchioness of Buckingham—who obviously cherished it enough to safeguard it for posterity. Seen in the exhibition Revisiting the Regency: England, 1811–1821. © The Huntington Library, All Rights Reserved
A REGENCY SILVER-GILT SNUFF-BOX , MARK OF THOMAS PEMBERTON AND ROBERT MITCHELL, LONDON, 1819 | Christie's
A REGENCY SILVER-GILT SNUFF-BOX - MARK OF THOMAS PEMBERTON AND ROBERT MITCHELL, LONDON
The Phaeton is a 19th-century sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body; it was fast and dangerous. It usually had no sidepieces in front of the seats. The most spectacular phaeton was the English four-wheeled high flyer.