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This Jane Austen blog brings Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic.

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English Culture, 1660-1830

The outline of this page comes from Catherine H. Decker’s old site (2006), which can no longer be found. I have taken the liberty of updating dead links, finding new links, and adding a few new topics. The original list is Ms. Decker’s and I can take no credit for the topics. Last edited 06/2017

Business, Clubs, Societies, Periodicals

English East India Company, founded 1599
Coffee Houses, first opened 1652
Chocolate Shops, first opened 1657
The Royal Society, founded 1660
Vauxhall Gardens, opened 1661
Drury Lane Theater, founded 1663
Chelsea Hospital, founded 1692
Bank of England, founded 1694
Bank of Scotland, founded 1695
London Stock Exchange, founded 1698
Society for the Promoting of Christian Knowledge, founded 1698
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, founded 1701
Royal Ascot, begun 1711
Boxing Champion of England, begun 1719
The Racing Calendar, started 1727
Covent Garden, Royal Opera House, opened 1732
Ranelagh Gardens, opened 1742
Sotheby’s Auction House, founded 1744
Bow Street Runners, founded 1748
The British Museum, founded 1753
Broadwood Piano Makers, founded 1753. Technical History of the Piano
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, founded 1754
Axminster Carpet Company, founded 1755 [See also The History of Carpet page]
Wedgwood China Company, founded 1760
Brooks’s Club, founded 1764
Almack’s Assembly Rooms, first opened 1765
Tattersall’s Horse Auction Yard, opened 1766
Christies’ Auction House, founded 1766
The Royal Academy, founded 1768
Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre, begun as a riding school 1768
Bass Ale, founded 1777
Royal Society of Edinburgh, founded 1783
The Royal Mail Coach System, begun 1784
Photos of Royal Mail Coach
The Times, founded 1785
Belfast Royal Academy, founded 1785
Phillips Auctioneers, founded 1796
Cadbury Limited, founded 1824
The History of Pubs in the Windsor Area

Customs/Games/New Plants/Foods

Inoculation for small pox
Gibbetting: A London Hanging, 1726
Indentured or bonded servants
Boxing Day
The origins of ballet: Dance in the 17th century
Opera/Vaudeville 1790s
Tea drinking
Boxing
Bear-baiting
Cock-fighting
Gaming hells
Fox hunting
Horse racing
Tooth-drawer/Dentist
History and Culture of Dueling
Coaching inns
History of Scottish Inns
Georgian gardens 1714-1830
18th C. Masquerades
History of microscopes, including Hooke’s Micrographia
British/Regency Food
Plum pudding
Bubble and squeak
Syllabub
Wigs – The Hair at the 18th Century
Women’s hairstyles and cosmetics of the 18th c: France and England
Corsets and Drawers: A Look at Regency Underwear
A brief history of the pineapple in London
Wassailing: Also, Regency Christmas Traditions
History of Morris Dancing
The Importance of Ladies Day in the Regency Calendar
Plough Monday and Molly Dancing
Jane Austen Easter
Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day
Swan Upping

People

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), chemist
Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723),architect
Claude Duval (1643-70), highwayman
William Hogarth, artist (1679-1764), painter
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759), composer
Antonio “Canaletto” Canal (1697-1768), painter
Dick Turpin, Highwayman (1706-39), highwayman [see this site]
Thomas Arne, composer (1710-1778), songwriter
David Garrick  (1717-1779), actor
Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), furniture maker
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), painter
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), scientist
George Romney (1734-1802), painter
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), musician
Angelica Kauffman (1740-1807), painter
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), writer
James Gillray (1757-1815), caricaturist
Auguste Vestris (1760-1842), dancer
Sir Edmund Hoyle (d. 1769), card player and gamester
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), painter

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  1. on August 12, 2011 at 12:38 carol vicente

    Can you please advise me on the flowers arrangements popular at this time and the flowers held by elizabeth at her wedding?



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