Regency DIY

Host your own Jane Austen Festival - at home!

Not able to join us in Bath for the 2025 Jane Austen festival? Here's how you can experience the fun from home. 

Trim your own Regency Bonnet

Ideas for trimming a plain straw bonnet.

Possets, or How to Learn from Your Bad Haircuts

Claire Carroll discusses the history of posset

Mr. Darcy’s Favourite Beef-Steak Dinner

A delicious steak dinner in 10 minutes or less!

The Regency Spa: Create Your Own Bath Salts

Make your own Bath Salts from Epsom Salts

The Regency Pastime of Paper Crafting and Quilling

Instructions for two paper projects

The Legend of the Mistletoe

From Parasitic Plant to Pucker Procurer

Christmas Tea: A History

As we begin to approach the holiday season, many of you (like us) will be starting to think about what you might gift your loved ones this year, or how you can get into the festive spirit.

Regency Hobbies for staying home

With many of us hunkering down for the Winter season and new Covid restrictions coming in left, right and centre, it might be time for us to re-embrace the at-home lifestyle once more. There is ple...

Making Home with Jane Austen

We have all spent more time at home over the past two years, but what did Jane Austen think about finding a home?

Gin Austen - An Exclusive Mr Darcy Recipe!

The marvelous Colleen Mullaney, author of the run-away success 'Gin Austen: 50 Cocktails to Celebrate the Novels of Jane Austen', has created an exclusive bonus recipe just for us at the Jane Auste...

Botanical Embroidery - The Next Big Sewing Trend?

We know that, like Jane Austen herself, a lot of our readers enjoy sewing. As such, when we came across the work of artist Olga Prinku this week and discovered botanical embroidery, we knew that we...