Best Guides to the Regency Period and English Peerage

maggie b. · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 2252

So what are your favorite guides to this historical time period? Favorite books on the subject?

I have two on my TBR - Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool

What others would you recommend?

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Mark · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 1242

IIRC, the Pool book covers a whole century in which there were many changes without clearly marking specific periods.
I highly recommend this site: Laura's British Titles of Nobility:
http://laura.chinet.com/html/titles01.html

Eliza · Joined: 21 Aug 2011 Posts: 718

Most of my history books are packed away and the only boxes I can get at for now are on the English Middle Ages, so how about this...

Candice Hern's fabulous web site has a wonderful Regency World section, which includes things like history, bios, glosssary, slang, timeline, fashion, people, places, photos, etc.; links for research on crime, food and drink, money, nobility, fashion, transportation, military, maps, etc.; her personal collections page of items, fashion plates, etc.; and a Regency discussion page. In other words, a treasure trove of things. It's really worth the time to find just how many layers of info she has there; just when I think I've seen it all, more pops up.

http://www.candicehern.com/
http://www.candicehern.com/regency.htm
http://www.candicehern.com/links.htm
http://www.candicehern.com/links.htm#historical-links

Loretta Chase also has a wonderful blog called Two Nerdy History Girls, which also includes many other very useful links:
http://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/

Susan/DC · Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1598

The two links below are to a couple of references right here at AAR.

http://likesbooks.com/regencyspeak.html

http://likesbooks.com/history.html

veasleyd1 · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 2064

Joseph Ballard, England in 1815 as seen by a young Boston merchant; being the reflections and comments of Joseph Ballard on a trip through Great Britain in the year of Waterloo (1913)

Élie Halévy, Histoire de peuple anglais aux dix-neuvième siècle (in English: Halévy's History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century. Translated by E. I. Watkin. London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1931-32.) (in 6 volumes)

England in 1815 (1913)
The Liberal Awakening (1815-1830) (1923)
The Triumph of Reform (1830-1841)
Victorian Years (1841-1895)
Imperialism and the Rise of Labour (1895-1905)
The Rule of Democracy (1905-1914)