House and Home in the English Regency

This talk will walk its audience through a Regency House, explaining each room’s purpose from the basement to the attic and everything in-between.

Beginning in the early years of the Industrial Revolution, the English Regency (1811 to 1820) was a period of enormous change for hearth and home. London was growing, with many former estates and grand houses making way for new dwellings and an upwardly-mobile professional class finding their way to the fringes of Mayfair.

The house itself was an intriguing reflection of society: its class system, social hierarchy, attitudes to wealth, birth and culture. Whether one lived in an elegant townhouse in Grosvenor Square, a bachelor’s apartment in Albany, or on a great estate in the country, the house was a vital factor in determining how people lived, their attitudes and ideas.