Regency Living and History

beidermeier

Simplifying Regency Style

an excerpt from Period Design and Furnishing

Afternoon Tea

Host a Regency Tea Party

An excerpt from our own Jane Austen cookbook

banbury cakes

Banbury cakes

Make delicious "cakes" from this 1615 recipe...

Fine herbes

Fine Herbes in April: Adding Flavor to your Pot

one way of adding delicate, fresh flavor to Georgian cooking

blanc mange

Blanc-Manger: A dainty dish, fit for Kings

First made from meat, it transformed from a savory dish to the sweet pudding it is now

1816

Furnishing Fashionably: Ackermann's Repository, 1816

What was Ackermann's Repository? Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated, British periodical published from 1809-1829 by Rudolph Ackermann. Although commonly called Ackermann's Repository...

children

Martha Lloyd's Whooping Cough Cure

Martha Lloyd's Whooping Cough Cure With Whooping Cough (Pertussis) reaching epidemic levels in recent years, a push to promote vaccination against it has received renewed publicity. As part of the ...

Ackerman Repository

Rural Residences: Designs for Cottages, Small Villas and Other Buildings 1817

One of the services Ackerman's Repository of the Arts provided for it's readers (both at the time of publication and today) was the inclusion of colored fashion plates depicting not only the styles...