Is BRIDGERTON historically accurate? In this week’s episode of History Calling I’m going to share with you 10 things Bridgerton gets right and 10 things Bridgerton gets wrong about history and teach you about the real Regency era in which the Netflix show, created by Shonda Rimes is set. As part of this Hollywood vs history approach we’ll look at topics like the costumes of Bridgerton, the real Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and her place within British society, the importance of chaperones for young ladies to protect their reputations, the double standard of behaviour for men and women, the ways in which aristocratic titles worked and who could inherit them, the Regency marriage market, whether gossip columns like Lady Whistledown’s really existed (and how likely it is that Penelope Featherington could get away with her side hustle), the Grand Tour of Europe which Colin Bridgerton has just returned from at the start of season 3 and the place of black people within British society in the nineteenth century, including how likely it is that the Duke of Hastings would be black, or any of the other aristocratic characters. I’ll ask if corsets really were torture devices for women, what shape were undergarments for ladies in this period, what happened to all the bonnets, did people really talk like that in the early 1800s and what kind of education did women have in reality? Could they really sing, dance, speak four languages, do needlework and be widely read too, or has Bridgerton invented its clever female characters?

I hope you enjoy this review of Bridgerton and its historical (in)accuracies.

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