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Tomorrow marks the 220 th anniversary of the end of the Peace of Amiens, that strange interlude in the nearly twenty-five years of war betw...

My dear nephew (thanks, Ian!) sent me the following item, which first appeared in the Northampton Mercury on July 23, 1808, and again on t...

This post was inspired by a social media post I recently ran across that I found fascinating, and had to share with you. It’s about a soup t...

I’m researching smuggling along the Dorset coast of England in the early 1800s. (Lovely, lovely research!) My next self-published series w...

It's a busy couple of weeks here in NineteenTeen East, what with winding down the summer and helping assorted offspring launch new ventu...

I'm off wandering the wilds of Iceland with my DH and will be back next week to report on our travels. In the meanwhile, here's a Bl...

True crime fans, take note. This post is for you...and is probably the strangest of the events of 1810 we’ll be looking at. Ready? G...

So I was all set with another post in my 1810 series when I ran across three awesome historical news stories that I just had to share...so i...

It’s 1802. Great Britain and France have been at war since 1793, when the brand new French republic went on the warpath as surrounding Eur...

Just in case you think that media having a profound effect on popular culture is a modern phenomenon, I have five words for you: The ...

I promised you a new series, didn’t I? Well, today it begins...but first, a little background. I’ve had an idea for an adult Regency sto...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that historical research is probably the most fun you can have with your corset on. I was doing r...

As our 19th century young lady tourists meandered about the country, guidebooks in hand as they visited scenic vistas and stately homes surr...

As Regina mentioned in Part 3 , a popular vacation pastime for 18th and early 19th century people was the visiting of the large country esta...

When we last left our Prinny, he was happily settled with Mrs. Fitzherbert…but as I hinted, this happy state of affairs did not last long. G...

Now in his early 20s, George was ripe for…for something . He’d tried partying, drag-racing…er, phaeton-racing, partying, womanizing, partyin...

As you could probably guess from the title, poor Princess Charlotte’s story does not have a happily-ever-after ending. But I’m getting ahea...

Back before our birthday celebrations we had left Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent and second in line to the British thro...

So you’ve probably figured out by now that I’m a just a little obsessed with Queen Victoria (and no, I’m not done with her yet—another inst...