Bonnets, bayonets and brilliant sunshine 9 September 2023—officially the hottest day of the year in England. It’s early and the sun’s al...

This book sits on the very edge of the time period I usually write about, which is late Georgian through the Regency. William Schaw Lindsay ...

Athelhampton House Athelhampton House, in Dorset, was a 326-year-old pigsty at the start of the Regency period. The ground floor of the Tudo...

On 9 November 1769, William Dighton was shot and killed in Halifax, Yorkshire. It was a planned assassination of a Supervisor of Excise—an o...

A Captain in the Navy from A book explaining the ranks and dignities of British Society by C Lamb (1809) You knew your place in Regency soc...