Regency era

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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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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical period ⓘ
capital London ⓘ
linked to: London, England
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 unrest ⓘ
Martello towers ⓘ
Masonic lodges ⓘ
Methodist expansion ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars context ⓘ
Newgate narratives ⓘ
Pacific exploration ⓘ
Peterloo-era radicalism ⓘ
Regency architecture ⓘ
Regency interior design ⓘ
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 ⓘ
hasPart late Georgian era ⓘ
linked to: Georgian era
hasRegent George IV ⓘ
namedAfter George IV ⓘ
startTime 1811 ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Seizure of Arms Act 1819 → era → Regency era ⓘ
Sir William Hotham → era → Regency era ⓘ
Jane Bennet – Susannah Harker → settingPeriod → RegencyEra ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Mr. Bennet (Benjamin Whitrow) → settingPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
subject linked to: Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow
Coronation of George IV → period → Regency era ⓘ
Fitzwilliam Darcy → setIn → Regency era ⓘ
Fitzwilliam Darcy → literaryPeriod → Regency literature ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Empire style → influenced → Regency style ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
John Nash → architecturalStyle → Regency style ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Pell Wall Hall → era → Regency era ⓘ
Chawton → heritageTheme → Regency period ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Princess Charlotte of Wales → era → Regency era ⓘ
Marianne Dashwood → settingPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Margaret Dashwood → literaryMovementOfWork → Regency literature ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Emma (1996 film) → settingTime → Regency era ⓘ
Miss Bates → setting → Regency England ⓘ
subject linked to: Miss Bates in Emma
linked to: Regency era
Pride and Prejudice → literaryMovement → Regency literature ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Mr. Turner → portraysHistoricalPeriod → late Georgian era ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Emma (novel) → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
subject linked to: Emma (novel by Jane Austen)
Sir Edmund Blackadder → setInPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
subject linked to: Edmund Blackadder
Baldrick → timePeriodSetting → Regency era ⓘ
Lady Susan → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
George Augustus Frederick → era → Regency era ⓘ
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven → historicalContext → Regency Britain ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Elizabeth Bennet → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Longbourn → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Charles Philip Yorke → era → Regency era ⓘ
Mr Bennet → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
George Wickham → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Mr. Bingley → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Mr. Collins → literaryPeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Georgiana Darcy → timePeriod → Regency era ⓘ
Becky Sharp → setIn → Regency era England ⓘ
linked to: Regency era
Glenarvon → timePeriodOfWork → Regency era ⓘ
Quality Street → setting → Regency-era England ⓘ
linked to: Regency era