Regency History

The Work of the Type Founder

A look at Regency Fonts and Font making

Locked In: Regency Prisons, Gaols and Hulks

Life inside a Regency prison

18th Century Cookery Books and the British Housewife

Cookbooks and the Regency Housewife by Vic Sanborn

The Baker

I suppose, you will be going to Streatham, to see quiet Mr. Hill and eat very bad baker's bread. Jane Austen to Cassandra, November 3, 1813

The Mail Guard

A look at the Regency Postal System and the men who kept it running.

The Pleasure of Walking

A Chance to See and be Seen

Sedan Chairs

Before there were taxies. Before there were cabs...

Ferry Service on the Thames

Crossing over in a Bridgeless London

Barges and Ferries

Getting from Here to There. A History of Regency Transportation.

Going by Coach

Getting from here to there in Regency England.

The Assistance of Servants

The unseen force behind Georgian Ease

Developments in Childbirth in Regency and Victorian England

The many dangers that awaited women in Austen's time