updated 5-1-07

  The following links specialize in various aspects of the English Regency period (c1800-1820).

General Regency sites:
	Anne Woodley's Regency Collection (Good general site for articles on specific subjects, lots of links.)
	The Georgian Index (Comprehensive site on all aspects of Georgian/Regency life.)
	The Jane Austen Magazine (Many useful articles on fashion, accessories, history, book reviews, etc.)
	A Regency Repository (Good general site with brief overviews of art, literature, science, etc. with lots of links.)
Regency Fashion:
	Bissonette on Costume: 1800-1829 (Anne Bissoneete, curator of the Kent State Univeristy Art Museum, presents some of their Regency dresses in lovely, detailed photographs.)
	Bissonette on Costume: The Lingerie Collection 1800 - 1899 (Anne Bissoneete, curator of the Kent State Univeristy Art Museum, presents some of their 19th century undergarments in lovely, detailed photographs. Great pictures of corsets.)
	Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion (This site is primarily for costumers and re-enactors but has lots of useful historical information.)
	Regency Clothing Styles (Notes and illustrations, an excellent overview at the Republic of Pemberley site.)
	Regency Fashion History (Good overview at Fashion-era.com.)
	Regency Fashion Page (Cathy Decker's excellent site with tons of info and images on fashion of fashion magazines of the Regency.)
	Regency Garderobe (Excellent resource for Regency fashion.)
	The Age of Nudity 1780-1825 (Website documenting a fabulous exhibit of fashion from the collection of the Kent State University Art Museum. Excellent photos and text.)
Military Topics:
	NEW! Broadside: Life in the Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (An excellent resource for all things naval, including all aspects of life aboard ship, pay and prize money, press gangs, tactics and strategies, detailed information on the Battle of Trafalgar, and more.)
	NEW! Nelson and His Navy (Good collection of articles on life in Nelson's navy during the Napoleonic wars, sponsored by the Historical Maritime Society.)
	NEW! SHIPS OF THE OLD NAVY : A History of the Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy (A comprehensive list of Royal Navy ships from the mid-18th through the mid-19th century, with anaecdotal histories of each ships voyages, actions, and crew.)
	Letters from the Peninsular Wars (Letters to and from 3 brothers in Wellington's Army 1807-1814.)
	The Napoleonic Guide (Articles on the Napoleonic Wars, primarily from a French perspective, but good bits about the British as well.)
	Napoleonic Wars Series (Articles, correspondence, dispatches, etc.)
	Wellington's Dispatches (Complete dispatches from 1808-12, and 1815.)
Miscellaneous:
	NEW! Percents and Sensibility: What did early 19th century literary characters live on? (Excellent article in the Economist on personal finance in Jane Austen, providing an overview of Regency investments, etc.)
	The Aldelphi Theatre 1806-1900 (Season by season calendar, summary, and commentary.)
	Hierarchy of the Church of England in 1820 (General info on the hierarch of bishops and vicars and curates, etc)
	A History of British Gardening: Georgian and Regency periods (Brief bios of the most important landscape gardeners of the era, eg Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton.)
	Food and Drink in Regency England (Recipes for popular drinks and foods of the Regency.)
	Leigh's new Picture of London 1819 (Excellent guide to London from 1819.
	Montreal in 1816: Reminiscences of J.H. Dorwin (Excellent insight into what Montreal was like in the early 19th century.)
	Regency Taste (brief overview of Regency architecture styles)

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updated 5-1-07

  The following links address various aspects of (primarily) British history and society.

General History
	NEW! 19th Century Timeline of the British Empire (Good general cross-reference of important events in the arts and sciences along with political and social hisotry of the Empire and the World for e ey year of the 19th century.)
	Age of George III (Good encyclopedic collection of short articles on political and social history 1760-1830.)
	British History Online (Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, including the excellent series The Victoria History of the Counties of England.)
	The British East India Company (Good overview of the history of the EIC.)
	Encyclopedia of British History (Just what it says.)
	Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Good reference for all aspects of social and political history, with an excellent index to more in-depth articles.)
British Nobility
	British Titles of Nobility (Excellent explanation of British titles.)
	College of Arms (History, records, how it works, etc.)
	Correct Forms of Address (Excellent explanation of the correct forms of address for British nobility.)
Crime, Criminals, Courts
	The Complete Newgate Calendar (A collection of stories about the most infamous crimes and criminals throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.)
	History of the (UK) Metropolitan Police Service (Excellent site with historical timelines and articles on specific crimes, etc)
	Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674-1834 (Contains the complete proceedings of 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834.)
Fashion, Accessories, etc
	NEW! Court Dress and Uniform (Good overview on Wikipedia.)
	Costumer's Manifesto (Comprehensive collections of links for all aspects of fashion and fashion history.)
	Corsets (An excellent overview with illustrations by author Kalen Huges)
	Fashion-Era (A comprehensive site of all aspects of fashion history.)
	Museum of Costume, Bath (Website for one of the best costume museums in the world.)
	The Language of the Fan (Learn all those secret signals you can send with a fan.)
Food and Drink etc
	At Table: High Style in the 18th Century (Objects used to lay a table, courses of a meal, etc.)
	Food Timeline (A fun timeline that shows when certain foods were introduced, etc, including some recipes.)
	History of Tea (General overview of the history of tea in England and America.)
Maps
	NEW! London Maps (Lots of maps of all or parts of London, from 1553 to 1918)
	Greenwood's Map of London 1827 (Good map of London. Start with the whole map and click on the area you want to see. Keep clicking to get a closer look.)
	Horwood's Map of London 1792-99 (Another excellent map of London, but even better than Greenwood's as it includes every house and building, and their street numbers. This is an online version of the map represented in the book The A to Z of Regency London published by the London Topographical Society.)
	Old Maps of England (Great site with maps from the 13th to the 19th centuries.)
Money
	A History of British Currency (Good reference for learning the difference between farthings and shillings and crowns, etc)
	How Much Is It Worth In Today's Currency? (A fun site where you can enter, for example, £500 and any year between 1264 and 1970, and it will calculate the value in today's money. For example, £500 in 1812 is the equivalent of £21,763.98 today.)
Transportation
	Chair Transport in Bath: The Sedan Chair Era (Good article on the sedan chairs from the book Bath History.)
	The Stage Coaches of Britain (Good article on the coaches, the coachmen, etc.)
Miscellaneous Sites of Interest
	Two Georgian Schools of Arms (Angelo's Fencing Academy and Gentleman Jackson's Boxing Salon)
	Code Duello (Complete set of rules established in Ireland in 1777 and used in England until the mid-19th century.)
	Culpeper's Herbal (Complete online version of The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, 1652.)
	Gambling in England (Excellent overview of gambling from the 18th century through the Regency.)
	Gazetteer of British Place Names (Comprehensive place name index.)
	History of the British Newspaper (A timeline history that shows when various newspapers began publication, when certain publication milestones were achieved, eg the inclusion of pictures, changes in the stamp tax, etc.)
	History of Contraception (Website of the History of Contraception Museum in Toronto)
	History of Dance (19th century) (Good information on dances and music. See also the section on the 18th century.)
	History of Pigments (Interesting, but somewhat esoteric, site on the development of artists' pigments over time.)
	A History of Vauxhall Gardens (Good overview of the history of the famous pleasure gardens, with lots of pictures.)
	List of houses in Great Britain (Long list of houses, including the nearest town/village and the country.)
	Lord Mayors of London (1189 to present)
	Parliamentary Franking System (Brief explanation of the British franking system with lots of images showing examples.)
	UK Patent Office - Copyright History (Short article on how copyrights work, history of the laws, etc.)

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  The following links include reviews, chat groups, bulletin boards, and all sorts of other offerings of interest to readers of Romance:

New and Previously Owned Books (Good site to buy romance novels, new and used copies. Reviews and articles as well.)

Historical Romance Writers (Book reviews, author interviews, etc.)

All About Romance (Reviews, articles, message boards, etc. Don't miss At the Back Fence.)

Mystic Castle (Reviews and message boards for readers of historical romance.)

The Romance Reader (Good review site.)

Romance Reviews Today (Good review site.)

Romantic Times Magazine (Reviews from the magazine, plus message board etc.)

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updated 2-1-05

  Miscellaneous fun stuff:

The Fog City Divas
Website and blog of Candice and nine other San Francisco romance writers.

Panda Cams at:
San Diego Zoo
Atlanta Zoo
National Zoo, Washington DC
24-hour live video cams from three zoos that are homes to giant pandas. These critters are so much fun to watch! And there is usually at least one cub on hand. Last year, pandas at both the San Diego and National zoos gave birth, and this year there is a new panda cub in Atlanta. It's hard to find anything cuter than a baby panda.

Romance Writers of America

RWA's image campaign
"Have we got a story for you!" is the tagline for an RWA-sponsored marketing campaign to improve the image of romance novels.

The Beau Monde (RWA Regency chapter)

San Francisco RWA chapter

The Bay Area English Regency Society

Friends of the English Regency

updated 5-1-07

Dishing with the Divas
This is where Candice blogs with her fellow Fog City Divas. Books, reading, writing, movies, TV, food, lingerie, and pop culture in all its forms are dished here. Lots of guests and cool contests!

Running With Quills
A group of bestselling authors from the Seattle area (Jayne Anne Krentz, Stella Cameron, Elizabeth Lowell, Lori Foster, Susan Andersen, and Suzanne Simmons) blog about writerly topics and other important stuff.

Word Wenches
Seven historical romance authors, plotting in the present, writing about the past ... and improvising the rest. WW authors include Jo Beverley, Edith Layton, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Loretta Chase, Sarah Gabriel, and Susan Holloway Scott.

Literary Chicks
Six authors of chick lit -- Michelle Cunnah, Whitney Gaskell, Alesia Holliday, Beth Kendrick, Eileen Rendahl, and Lani Diane Rich -- band together to blog with fun results.

Risky Regencies
Regency writers Ammanda McCabe, Megan Frampton, Diane Perkins, Laurie Bishop, Janet Mullaney, Cara King, and Elena Green discuss all things Regency.

Romance By the Blog
A companion blog to Michelle Buonfiglio's nationally-syndicated Romance Novel Review column, "Romance: B(u)y the Book". Michelle invites your to "dish about the Best Romance Novels, the Hottest Heroes, the Cheesiest Covers, and anything else we can think of."

Romancing the Blog
A long list of writers contribute articles to this blog where they talk about "what's hip, what's now, what's tomorrow in the romance world."

Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels
"A website that reviews romance novels from a couple of smart bitches who will always give it to you straight. No bullshit. No gushing -- unless the author really deserves it. "

Teach Me Tonight
"Musings on romance ficiton from an academic perspective." A very interesting blog with serious, scholarly topics penned by several contributing academics.

NEW! History Hoydens
"Historical Romance Writers Dishing the Dirt on Research."

NEW! Romance Vagabonds
"Just a ragtag band of writers, traveling from WIP to WIP…looking to finally finish one."

NEW! Romantic Inks
A group of aspiring romance writers talk about writing, with frequent guest lecturers.

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