This is by no means a complete list of all reference works available on the Regency Period. It is a list of the works I enjoy using and reading. Many of these books are out of print and some are difficult to get such as the letters of Harriet Granville. I would advise a trip to Bookfinder or ABE to track down what you are looking for.

NEW RELEASES RECOMMENDED

JANE AUSTEN; Illusion and Reality - by Christoper Brooke, Published in 1999 by DS Brewer, Cambridge.

General
A short list of those books I believe give the best introduction in general to the Regency age.
Prince of Pleasure - J B Priestly
Georgette Heyer's Regency England - Therese Chris
Regency London - Stella Margetson
Years of Victory (1802-1812) - Arthur Bryant
The Age of Elegance (1812-1822) - Arthur Bryant
Tactics and the experience of battle in the age of Napoleon - Rory Muir
Britons : Forging the Nation 1707-1837 - Linda Colley
Our Tempestuous Day - Carrolly Erickson

You can also read some of the works available for Austen fans on my website at Janeite Books

The Gentleman's Daughters; Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery	Prince of Pleasure : The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency by Saul David	Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Unsuitable for Ladies : An Anthology of Women Travellers by Jane Robinson(Editor)	George III : A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert	The Napoleon of Crime: The Extraordinary Story of Adam Worth, the World's Greatest Modern Criminal by Ben Macintyre
Britons : Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley	Classic Georgian Style by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, et al	Glenarvon (Everyman Paperback Classic) by Caroline Lamb, et al

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Slang, sport and manners
1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue
The Language of Sport - C Hare
The Mail Coach Men - Edmund Vale
A History of Courting - E S Turner
Bucks and Bruisers Pierce Egan and Regency England - J.C. Reid
The progress of human life; fashionably displayed, illustrating Shakespeare's ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements and field sports of the English people - Henry Alken (1948 reprint of 1820 book)
The Analysis of the Hunting Field - Henry Alken
The Private World of Georgette Heyer Jane Aiken Hodge
Georgette Heyer's Regency England Theresa Chris
The Regency Realm, A Continuing Compendium of References on Regency England Beau Monde (an organistation)

Coach and Carriage
English Pleasure Carriages By W. Bridges Adams Facsimile edition of an 1837 publication Published by Adams and Dart, Bath, 1971
The Brighton Road - by Charles G Harper - part of a series of books he wrote covering all the major post roads.
The Mail Coach Men - Edmund Vale
Travel in England - by Thomas Burke - Batsford, London 1949. Good general history of public transport and roads
British Transport - an economic Survey from the Seventeenth century to the Twentieth - H J Dyos and D H Aldcroft. Penguin, Great Britian, 1969.
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways - by Tristram Outram, Macmillan, London 1901
- by Charles G Harper in 2 vols.
The Coaching Age David Mountfield
The Romance of the Road - by Cecil Aldin Bracken Books, 1986
Driving Horse-Drawn Carriages for Pleasure, - Francis T. Underhill. Dover, 1989.
QUICKSILVER: A Hundred Years of Coaching 1750-1850 - R C & J M Anderson (1973)

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Diaries, autobiographies and letters
A Second Self, The letters of Harriet Granville Edited by Virginia Surtees
The Creevey Papers-Various people had edited these in the past -
The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson - by Hariette Wilson
The Capel Letters - Edited by Marquess of Anglesey
Celebrities I have known William Pitt Lennox
Lord Granville Leveson Gower - Private Correspondence Edited by Castalia, Countess Granville
Lieven Palmerston Correspondence Edited by Lord Sudley
Captain Gronow - His books edited by Christopher Hibbert
Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi & Penelope Pennington - ed. Oswald G. Knapp
There are numerous other volumes that could be mentioned here - Mrs Arbuthnots diaries, the letters of Lady Holland, or the collected letters of the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Elizabeth Foster, or the Greville Papers to name but a few more. The ones mentioned in my list are my favourites.

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Biographies
Rebel Heart - Biography of Jane Digby - Mary Lovell
Jane Austen - Claire Tomalin
The loves of Florizel - Phillip Lindsay. (on Prince of Wales affairs and wives)
The Cecil's of Hatfield House - David Cecil
Georgiana - Brian Masters - a biogpraphy of the Duchess of Devonshire
Gerogiana - Amanda Foreman's biography of the Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Caroline Lamb - Elizabeth Jenkins
The Aristocrats - Stella Tillyard
The life of Edward Fitzgerald - Stella Tillyard
Lives of the Rakes - E Beresford Chancellor - in 6 Volumes
Beau Brummell - Captain Jesse
Beau Brummell - Hubert Cole
Beau Brummell - Roger Boutet de Monvel
Beau Brummell - Lewis Melville
Star of Picadilly - Lewis Melville, a biography of the Duke of Queensberry

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Waterloo diaries/autobiographies
Adventures of a Soldier - Edward Costello (reprinted 1972)
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade - by Captain Sir John Kincaid
Random Shots Captain Sir John Kincaid
Wellington's Men - W H Fitchett, (1901)
A Week in Waterloo - Lady Delancey
The autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith - GC Moore-Smith editor, 2 volumes, (1901)
A British Rifleman - George Simmons
The Waterloo Letters H T Siborne
The Campaign of 1815- W H Morris
The Journal of an Army Surgeon - Charles Boutflower 1997
Rough Notes of Seven Campaigns - John Spencer Cooper
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Anonymous - as told to Henry Curling
General Wilson's Journal - 1812-1814 Edited by Anthony Brett-James
A Gentleman Volunteer the Letters of George Hennell- ed. by Michael Glover
Adventures with the Connaught Rangers - William Grattan
One-Leg The life and letters of the first Marquess of Anglesey - by the 7th Marquess
Long Forgotten Days - Ethel M Richardson
Again - these books proliferate - these are the ones I tend to use over and again.

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Wellington Biographies
Wellington, A Personal Biography - Christopher Hibbert
The Great Duke - W H Fitchett
Years of the Sword Elizabeth Longford
The Duke - Phillip Guedala
Life of Wellington - WH Maxwell(1891)

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Military The Napoleonic Source Book - Philip J. Haythornthwaite 1990
The Face of Battle - John Keegan
British Military Spectacle, - from the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea - Scott Hughes Myerley
Secret Service, British Agents in France 1792 - 1815 - Elizabeth Sparrow
Waterloo, a near run thing - David Howarth(1968)
Cavalry Uniformsof Britain and commonwealth including other mounted troops - by R and C Wilkinson-Latham
Infantry UniformsIncluding Artilllery and Other supporting Corps of Britain and the Commonwealth 1742-1855 - by R and C Wilkinson-Latham
Jackets of Green - By Arthur Bryant
An Encyclopaedia of Napolean's Europe - Alan Palmer
Wellington - Sir Charles Paston 1956
The Thin Red Line - DSV and BK Fosten 1989
An Encyclpaedia of Napoleon's Europe - Alan Palmer. 1984
Corunna - Christopher Hibbert
Tactics and the experience of battle in the age of Napoleon - Rory Muir
The Princes Dolls - John Mollo

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