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Post by SonjaMarie » Fri January 4th, 2013, 4:22 am

[quote=""Amanda""]
A couple of other NF:

Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
(Haven't read it yet but this was presented as a radio series on BBC radio 4 and I enjoyed it a lot).

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank. (Haven't read it yet)

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I've read both and they're very good.

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Post by J.D. Oswald » Fri January 4th, 2013, 6:07 pm

When researching for Henrietta Street, I found Roy Porter's English Society in the 18th Century (Penguin, 1991) quite useful.

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Post by J.D. Oswald » Sun January 6th, 2013, 4:45 pm

Also High Society in the Regency Period, 1788-1830 by Venetia Murray (Penguin) has all sorts of titbits about the details of life.

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Post by Antoine Vanner » Sat January 19th, 2013, 5:25 pm

[quote=""J.D. Oswald""]Also High Society in the Regency Period, 1788-1830 by Venetia Murray (Penguin) has all sorts of titbits about the details of life.[/quote]

Try also "The Age of Elegance" by Arthur Bryant, the last of his trilogy on English History 1792-1825. These are some of the most readable and accessible narrative histories I know of and "the Age of Elegance" deals with the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Regency Period then and thereafter, with a strong emphasis on societal aspects.

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