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A blog dedicated to the awesomeness of the Regency period and the dudes who lived in it.

George, Caroline, Charlotte, Beau, Napoleon - this is your space.


andshealmostdeservedit:

King George IV and Queen Caroline by Lewis Marks, 1821.  Engraving.  

thefantasticdrowse:

“Like many military men in Europe, and like very few in clean-shaven England, the Duke of Brunswick had a huge moustache. Charlotte adored it. After their first meeting in Blackheath, according to George Keppel, she went back to Warwick House,  painted a black moustache on her face and marched up and down in a military manner  barking guttural expletives, which she hoped very much sounded like German swearwords.”

Leopold grew a moustache for her after they were married because she was so impressed with her uncle, the Duke of Brunswick’s. 

The girl knew what she liked.



That's just the Cyberman attacking Roosevelt: The Beggar's Benison and the Wig Club

tinywaitress:

The wedding of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick.

Neither of them look very impressed, which is an accurate depiction I suppose. 


fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Lord Byron.
He’s been featured before, because what horny teenager hasn’t happened across his portrait and been like, “DAMN,” but you’re missing THE picture that rocked my teenage world.



fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Dr. Sir William Beatty (1773 - 1842)
Best remembered for being ship’s surgeon on the HMS Victory, flagship of Vice-Admiral and all-round BAMF Horatio Nelson, William Beatty was quite a badass himself. He was a bloody good surgeon, and didn’t take any crap, not even from his superiors. Early on in his career, he got into an argument with his then-commander, Captain Fitzroy, which led to Beatty (before the entire crew, no less!) defending himself and his professional reputation from completely unjust accusations of incompetence. This didn’t go down well with Fitzroy, who promptly had Beatty arrested to await court-martial for, essentially, being a sarcastic bastard! When it came to trial, however, the charges were thrown out as “frivolous”, and Beatty was fully acquitted and set free to snark another day.
He got on better in subsequent postings, and was eventually appointed to the Victory in 1804, a posting he seems to have earned largely on his own merit. At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, Beatty BAMFed it up belowdecks, performing eleven amputations on wounded sailors, nine of whom survived - no mean feat! Although sadly unable to save the life of Nelson, Beatty attended to the admiral as he lay dying. It was Beatty’s idea to preserve Nelson’s body in the famous barrel of brandy for the voyage home, and he was later able to perform a full autopsy and subsequently remove the fatal musket ball from Nelson’s body. And it was Beatty who wrote the account of Nelson’s death which has gone down in history.
After Trafalgar, Beatty became (amongst other things) Physician of Greenwich Hospital, a member of the Royal Society, a board member of the London and Greenwich Railway, as well as a strong advocate for a certain new-fangled practice known as vaccination. He was also something of a bookworm, and seems to have spent most of his money on a huge private book collection. 
Just for a bit of added coolness, his surgical kit survives, and appears to be unique, put together according to his own specifications - no generic, common-or-garden set for William Beatty!
In sum, he was just a complete boss! 

princess-of-whales:

rolypoly-dandy:

I was going to say TOTAL STUD, FABULOUS BABE AND NEMESIS OF NAPOLEON

Or git. Git seems accurate.

princess-of-whales:

OMG U MAD?


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