ENGLISH REGENCY

The 'Regency period' in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811 and 1820, when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, later George IV, was instated to be his proxy as Prince Regent. The term is often expanded to apply to the years between 1795 and 1837, a time characterised by distinctive fashions, politics and culture. In this sense it can be considered to be a transitional period between "Georgian" and "Victorian". The era was distinctive for its architecture, literature, fashions, politics, and snuffboxes. It was a period of excess for the aristocracy: for example, it was during this time that the Prince Regent built the Brighton Pavilion. However, it was also an era of uncertainty caused by, among other things, the Napoleonic wars, periodic riots, and a perceived threat of the English lower classes imitating the upheavals of the French Revolution.

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Artistic trends

Famous places

Famous people

See also

Artistic trends

★ Regency architecture

★ Regency fashions

★ Regency dance

★ Regency novels

★ Regency Silver Snuffboxes

Famous places

★ Almack's

★ Brighton Pavilion

★ Carlton House

★ Brooks's

★ Watier's

★ White's

★ Vauxhall Gardens

★ Ranelagh Gardens

★ The Pantheon

★ Tattersalls

★ Her Majesty's Theatre

★ Little Theatre, Haymarket

★ Drury Lane

★ Covent Garden

★ St George Hanover Square

★ Astley's Ampitheatre

Famous people

★ Jane Austen

★ Beau Brummell

★ George Gordon, Lord Byron

★ Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

★ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

★ Sarah, Countess of Jersey

★ Lady Caroline Lamb

★ Princess Lieven

★ Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

★ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

★ Walter Scott

★ William Wordsworth

★ Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA

★ J.M.W. Turner

★ Thomas Raikes

★ John Nash

See also

★ Régence (French parallel)