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Regency and period
Blackadder the Third is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency.
Regency dance is the term for historical dances of the period ranging roughly from 1790 to 1825.
However, the term " Regency " has been used to refer to a much broader period than the historical Regency for a very long time, particularly in areas such as the history of art and architecture, literature, and clothing.
Today, there are many groups around the world which perform a variety of English period dances, including many of the types of dance which were popular during the English Regency.
The era was preceded by the Regency era and succeeded by the Edwardian period.
It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered " riotous and indecent " as late as 1825.
* January 29 – George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the throne on the death at Windsor Castle of his father George III ( after 59 years on the throne ), ending the period known as the British Regency.
* June 20 – The Regency period of Sweden ends with the election of Karl Knutsson Bonde as King Charles VIII of Sweden.
This period is known as the British Regency, or just the Regency.
More recently, gentrification of much of Brighton has seen a return of the fashionable image which characterised the growth of the Regency period.
Although Protestants ceased to be kept in the Bastille, the political uncertainties and plots of the period kept the prison busy and 1, 459 were imprisoned there under the Regency, an average of around 182 a year.
It incorporates many of the elements of both mediæval castles and Regency period stately homes, though in practice it operates like a small city-state.
This may be as narrow as a specific moment from a battle, such as the reenactment of Pickett's Charge at the Great Reunion of 1913, or as broad as an entire period, such as Regency reenactment or The 1920s Berlin Project.
Poke bonnets, which had been worn during the late Regency period, had high, small crowns and brims that grew larger until the 1830s, when the face of a woman wearing a poke bonnet could only be seen directly from the front.
The Regency era in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811 — when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, the Prince of Wales, ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent — and 1820, when the Prince Regent became George IV on the death of his father.
If Regency era is being used to describe the transition between Georgian and Victorian eras, the focus is on the pre-Victorian period from 1811, when the formal Regency began, through 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.
If, however, Regency era is being contrasted with the Eighteenth century, then the period includes the later French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Despite the bloodshed and warfare the Regency was also a period of great refinement and cultural achievement, shaping and altering the societal structure of Britain as a whole.
It tells the true story of George III's deteriorating mental health, and his equally declining relationship with his son, the Prince of Wales, particularly focusing on the period around the Regency Crisis of 1788.
Its stock of Regency and Classical Revival buildings, considered the best in the country from the post-war of 1812 period, led the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to recommend that the town's historic district be designated a National Historic Site of Canada, a designation which was approved in 2003.
These weapons even appear when the two men face off for the role of ' Mr Parcy ', the cad in a period drama-with Rickman referring to his gun as a ' Regency Bazookoid Blaster '.

Regency and was
English Country Dance ( ECD ) was popular well into the Baroque and Regency eras.
The Fujiwara Regency was the main feature of government of the entire Heian era.
The siege was unsuccessful and the Duke was admonished by the Regency and forced to pay a fee to the town.
John Nash was one of the most prolific architects of the late Georgian era known as The Regency style, he was responsible for designing large areas of London.
Somerset, disliked by the Regency Council for his autocratic methods, was removed from power by John Dudley, who is known as Lord President Northumberland.
Under the protocol signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.
The Hyatt Regency walkway collapse was a major disaster that occurred on July 17, 1981 killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others during a tea dance.
He was the leading figure in the Albany Regency, a group of politicians who for more than a generation dominated much of the politics of New York and powerfully influenced the politics of the nation.
The first major revival of English Country Dance, one of the major types of Regency dance, was by Englishman Cecil Sharp in the early 20th century.
The end of the Kamakura shogunate came when Kamakura fell in 1333 and the Hōjō Regency was destroyed.
Unfortunately, the young King's kingdom was usually in turmoil between nobles who were trying to strengthen their own position in the kingdom by using the Regency in their favour.
However, it was George who understood the complexities of English politics and constitutional law, which required further acts in 1705 to naturalise Sophia and her heirs as English subjects, and to detail arrangements for the transfer of power through a Regency Council.
He swiftly revised the membership of the Regency Council that would take power after Anne's death, as it was known that Anne's health was failing and politicians in Britain were jostling for power.
After the Duke of Bedford died in 1435, the Duke of Gloucester claimed the Regency himself, but was contested in this by the other members of the council.
The title was conferred by the Regency Act on February 5, 1811.
The precedent of the Regency Crisis of 1788 ( from which George III recovered before it was necessary to appoint a Regent ) was followed.
The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

Regency and seen
Good illustrations of the Regency style can also be seen in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, particularly in parts of The Parade, Clarendon Square and Landsdowne Circus.
One was a " Page Six " item in the New York Post about Israel's forthcoming book noting that employees of the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, the place where Dorothy Kilgallen was last seen alive, were instructed not to talk to Israel.
The Council of Regency of Cadiz was not seen as a successor of the Spanish resistance but as an attempt to restore absolutism in Spain.
* Sash windows but with larger panes of glass, from the 1850s, than the characteristic 6 plus 6 smaller panes seen in Georgian and Regency architecture.

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