'''Late Georgian and Regency Britain'''

Here you'll find snippets of research I've done into life in this era, stemming from my passion for Regency Romance novels, and text quoted directly from contempory sources.

For ease of navigation, I have ''very loosly'' divided the content into two sections: primary sources; and original research/comment.

<table/hidden a, b> a: Primary sources b: Original research based on primary sources, and historical romances of today a: music:

• airs
• songs
  • [[military and seafaring songs|military and seafaring]]
  • [[drinking songs|drinking]]
  • [[patriotic songs|patriotic]]
  • [[songs about matters of the heart|matters of the heart]]
  • [[rude and crude songs|rude and crude]]
  • [[songs about town and country|town and country]]
  • [[miscellaneous songs|miscellaneous]]
  • all songs: [[list of all songs|list]], or [[all songs|all displayed on one page]]

love and marriage:

• [[love and marriage cultural commentary|cultural commentary]]
• [[parish law on husbands and wives|law on marriage]] from ''A Library of Parish Law'' and ecclesiastical law on marriage
• songs about matters of the heart

children:

• children's games
• alphabets
• school rules for ''Ackworth School''
  • a description of Ackworth School by Sarah Grubb; morals for children at ''Ackworth School''

Christmas season:

• Christmas Hymns
• Christmas carols
• Scottish New Year--a poem

dancing:

• country dancing
  • dancing etiquette
  • country dances by year: [[country dances of 1769|1769]], [[country dances of 1780|1780]], [[country dances of 1787|1787]], [[country dances of 1789-a|1789-a]], [[country dances of 1789-b|1789-b]], [[country dances of 1792|1792]], [[country dances of 1793|1793]], [[country dances of 1797|1797]], [[country dances of 1799|1799]]
  • all country dances in alphabetical order

law:

• From ''A Library of Parish Law''
  • [[parish law on husbands and wives|husbands and wives]]; [[parish law on adultery|adultery]]; [[parish law on alimony|alimony]]; [[parish law on bastards|bastards]]; [[parish law on bigamy|bigamy]]; [[parish law on infants|infants]]; [[parish law on rape|rape]]; [[parish law on women|women]]
• ecclesiastical law
  • [[ecclesiastical law on marriage|marriage and separation]], [[ecclesiastical law on testaments|wills and testaments]]

the written word:

• abbreviations in use during the era
• the long s
• alphabets for children to learn

b: common first names:

• names people were actually called
  • analysis of [[men's names in Bedfordshire|men's]] or women's names in Bedfordshire
  • analysis of women's names in London
  • analysis of men's names in Caernarvonshire
  • [[names from local records|small study]] from various local records
• [[names listed in glossaries|names]] found in contemporary guides and dictionaries

the rules of romance novels, as they are written today ----