Regency era

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historical period

The Regency era was a period in early 19th-century Britain marked by distinctive social elegance, political unrest, and cultural flourishing in literature, fashion, and the arts under the regency of the future King George IV.

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Label	Occurrences
Regency era canonical	40
Regency literature	3
Regency style	2
Regency	1
Regency Britain	1
Regency England	1
Regency era England	1
Regency period	1
Regency-era England	1
RegencyEra	1
late Georgian era	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical period ⓘ
capital	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
country	Great Britain ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
endTime	1820 ⓘ
followedBy	Victorian era ⓘ
follows	Georgian era ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	African exploration beginnings ⓘ Anglican evangelicalism ⓘ Arctic exploration ⓘ Beau Brummell-inspired menswear ⓘ Bible societies growth ⓘ Catholic emancipation debate ⓘ Chinese and Egyptian decorative motifs ⓘ East India Company dominance ⓘ Gothic revival beginnings ⓘ Grand Tour adaptations ⓘ Italian opera vogue ⓘ Luddite disturbances ⓘ surface form: Luddite unrest Martello towers ⓘ Masonic lodges ⓘ Methodist expansion ⓘ Napoleonic Wars context ⓘ Newgate narratives ⓘ Pacific exploration ⓘ Peterloo-era radicalism ⓘ Regency architecture ⓘ Regency interior design ⓘ Royal Institution Christmas Lectures ⓘ surface form: Royal Institution lectures Royal Society activity ⓘ Scottish Highlands tourism ⓘ Sunday schools movement ⓘ West Indian plantation economy ⓘ abolition of the slave trade ⓘ agricultural improvement ⓘ agricultural shows ⓘ amateur science ⓘ anthropological curiosity ⓘ antiquarianism ⓘ architectural innovation ⓘ argument from design ⓘ art exhibitions ⓘ artistic circles ⓘ astronomical observations ⓘ asylums for the insane ⓘ automata displays ⓘ ball culture and assemblies ⓘ ballooning spectacles ⓘ benevolent associations ⓘ biblical chronology discussions ⓘ biblical scholarship debates ⓘ botanic gardens ⓘ botanical collecting ⓘ bow windows ⓘ boxing and prizefighting ⓘ bridge between Enlightenment and Victorian culture ⓘ bright color schemes in interiors ⓘ broadsides ⓘ cabinet of curiosities ⓘ campaigns against cruelty to animals ⓘ campaigns against vice ⓘ canal and early railway development ⓘ canal network expansion ⓘ caricature prints ⓘ celebrity culture around actors ⓘ celebrity culture around authors ⓘ celebrity culture around criminals ⓘ censorship and press control ⓘ chapbooks ⓘ chaperonage for young women ⓘ charitable societies ⓘ charitable visiting societies ⓘ charity hospitals ⓘ charity schools ⓘ chemical demonstrations ⓘ child labor in industry ⓘ children's literature growth ⓘ china and porcelain collecting ⓘ chronometer use ⓘ circulating libraries ⓘ circulating library novels ⓘ circulation of political pamphlets ⓘ circuses ⓘ clubs for gentlemen ⓘ coal mining expansion ⓘ coastal defenses ⓘ coffee house culture ⓘ collecting of curiosities ⓘ comet sightings ⓘ concern about French revolutionary ideas ⓘ concern about moral reform ⓘ concern about prostitution ⓘ concerts and musical evenings ⓘ conduct literature for women ⓘ consumer culture expansion ⓘ continental travel for elites ⓘ cookery books ⓘ corn laws controversy ⓘ country house visiting ⓘ cricket as a gentlemanly sport ⓘ crime reporting fascination ⓘ criticism of court extravagance ⓘ crop rotation ⓘ crowded housing ⓘ cultural flourishing ⓘ debate over church establishment ⓘ debate over education reform ⓘ debate over human origins ⓘ debate over mental illness treatment ⓘ debate over parliamentary reform ⓘ debate over public morality ⓘ debate over slavery ⓘ debtor's prisons ⓘ demobilization after Napoleonic Wars ⓘ development of Regent Street and Regent's Park ⓘ didactic fiction ⓘ dispensaries ⓘ distinctive fashion ⓘ district visiting ⓘ dog and horse breeding ⓘ domestic ideology development ⓘ domestic manuals ⓘ domestic service as major employment ⓘ drainage schemes ⓘ dueling culture ⓘ early animal welfare movement ⓘ early geological studies ⓘ early steamships ⓘ elaborate etiquette ⓘ electrical experiments ⓘ emphasis on reputation and scandal ⓘ empire waistline fashion ⓘ enclosure of common lands ⓘ estate landscaping ⓘ ethnographic collecting ⓘ evangelical religious influence ⓘ exotic plant cultivation ⓘ expanding middle class ⓘ expansion of the British Empire ⓘ exploration voyages ⓘ fairy tales circulation ⓘ fashion for picturesque travel ⓘ fashion plates in magazines ⓘ fashionable promenading ⓘ floriculture ⓘ flower shows ⓘ folk customs persistence ⓘ food riots ⓘ fossil collecting ⓘ founding of the SPCA precursor ⓘ freak shows ⓘ gallows literature ⓘ gambling and high society clubs ⓘ gambling at clubs ⓘ gentleman scientists ⓘ geological time debates ⓘ gothic fiction popularity ⓘ growth of London as a metropolis ⓘ growth of insurance and banking ⓘ growth of newspapers ⓘ growth of philanthropy ⓘ growth of policing in London ⓘ growth of print culture ⓘ growth of professional middle class ⓘ growth of public parks ⓘ growth of schooling ⓘ growth of seaside resorts ⓘ high church revival beginnings ⓘ historical novels ⓘ home missions ⓘ home museums ⓘ hot houses and greenhouses ⓘ hunting and racing culture ⓘ hydrographic surveying ⓘ illuminations and fireworks ⓘ improved bridges ⓘ improvement in livestock breeds ⓘ improvement of roads and coaching ⓘ improvement societies ⓘ improvements in printing technology ⓘ improving tales for children ⓘ increasing Irish unrest ⓘ increasing emphasis on childhood ⓘ increasing global trade ⓘ increasing literacy ⓘ increasing role of women readers ⓘ infant mortality ⓘ infectious disease outbreaks ⓘ interest in India and the East ⓘ interest in domestic pets ⓘ interest in medievalism ⓘ interest in natural history ⓘ iron balconies ⓘ ironworks growth ⓘ joint-stock companies ⓘ kitchen gardens ⓘ lampooning of the Prince Regent ⓘ landscape painting ⓘ learned societies ⓘ literary reviews ⓘ luxury goods consumption ⓘ lying-in hospitals ⓘ magic lantern shows ⓘ mail coach system ⓘ marriage as economic alliance ⓘ mechanical exhibitions ⓘ mechanized textile production ⓘ menageries and zoos ⓘ mesmerism beginnings ⓘ midwifery and man-midwives ⓘ militia service ⓘ missionary societies expansion ⓘ missionary work in colonies ⓘ missionary-explorer overlap ⓘ model farms ⓘ monuments to war heroes ⓘ museum and gallery visiting ⓘ natural theology ⓘ naval and military art ⓘ naval impressment issues ⓘ naval memorials ⓘ naval supremacy ⓘ navigation improvements ⓘ neoclassical influences ⓘ new prison designs ⓘ orientalism in art and design ⓘ ornamental gardening ⓘ ornate furniture ⓘ panoramas and dioramas ⓘ patriotism and anti-French sentiment ⓘ periodical essays ⓘ phrenology interest ⓘ picturesque landscape gardening ⓘ political cartoons ⓘ political unrest ⓘ poor relief under the Old Poor Law ⓘ popular astronomy ⓘ popular interest in chemistry and electricity ⓘ popular theatre and melodrama ⓘ portrait miniatures ⓘ post-war economic depression ⓘ poverty and social inequality ⓘ press coverage of the royal family ⓘ press gangs legacy ⓘ prison reform debates ⓘ public celebrations of victories ⓘ public executions ⓘ public interest in royal marriages ⓘ public scientific demonstrations ⓘ quack medicine trade ⓘ racial theories development ⓘ reading societies ⓘ refined manners ⓘ reform of criminal law ⓘ regimental traditions ⓘ religious tracts ⓘ repressive government measures ⓘ rise of caricature and satirical prints ⓘ rise of romantic literature ⓘ rise of the dandy ⓘ rise of the novel ⓘ romanticism in the arts ⓘ royal scandals ⓘ rural festivals and fairs ⓘ salon culture ⓘ salon literary culture ⓘ scientific and technological innovation ⓘ scientific clubs ⓘ scientific societies and lectures ⓘ scriptural geology ⓘ secret societies and radical clubs ⓘ selective breeding ⓘ sensation over murders ⓘ separate spheres ideology beginnings ⓘ servant-managed households ⓘ shell collecting ⓘ signal stations ⓘ silver fork novel precursors ⓘ silverware and plate display ⓘ slavery abolition movement ⓘ slums ⓘ smallpox inoculation decline ⓘ smuggling on coasts ⓘ social elegance ⓘ spa town culture ⓘ spying on political radicals ⓘ stagecoach services ⓘ steam engines in industry ⓘ stock market speculation ⓘ street ballads ⓘ strict class hierarchy ⓘ stuccoed facades ⓘ subscription concerts ⓘ subscription libraries ⓘ tea drinking rituals ⓘ temperance beginnings ⓘ terraced housing developments ⓘ tithes controversies ⓘ tourism in the Lake District ⓘ toy theatres ⓘ tract distribution ⓘ transportation as punishment ⓘ transportation of convicts to Australia ⓘ travel writing ⓘ turnpike trusts ⓘ typhus and typhoid ⓘ unitarian and dissenting growth ⓘ urban smoke and pollution ⓘ urbanization ⓘ use of gas lighting in cities ⓘ vaccination adoption ⓘ venereal disease fears ⓘ veterans' issues after war ⓘ volunteer corps ⓘ waterloo commemorations ⓘ women's magazines emergence ⓘ
hasMonarch	George III of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: George III
hasPart	Georgian era ⓘ surface form: late Georgian era
hasRegent	George IV of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: George IV
namedAfter	George IV of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: George IV
startTime	1811 ⓘ

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