19th Century Archives – The Historical Dance Society https://historicaldance.org.uk/product-tag/19th-century celebrating dance from the 12th to the 20th century Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:17:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historicaldance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-ms-icon-310x310-1-32x32.png 19th Century Archives – The Historical Dance Society https://historicaldance.org.uk/product-tag/19th-century 32 32 Dances for Queen Victoria – book with 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-for-queen-victoria-book-with-2-cds Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:46:04 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=6050 Dances for Queen Victoria Music and instructions for country dances, quadrilles, polka, schottische and reels by Joseph Lowe, dancing master to the royal family   This publication makes available to dancers today a collection of dances that were taught to Queen Victoria’s children, accompanied with new recordings of the music and new essays that shed […]

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]]> Excellent New Dances: dances of court and country c.1699 – Downloadable book and 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/excellent-new-dances-dances-of-court-and-country-c-1699-downloadable-book-and-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/excellent-new-dances-dances-of-court-and-country-c-1699-downloadable-book-and-2-cds#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:28:42 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=5023 Available as a digital download only. Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. Book contents The book was researched from original sources for the DHDS Summmer School in 1999. It contains 106 pages in two sections, each section including introductions, step descriptions, dance descriptions […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/excellent-new-dances-dances-of-court-and-country-c-1699-downloadable-book-and-2-cds/feed 0 For the Further Improvement of Dancing (1680-1725) – Downloadable book and 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/for-the-further-improvement-of-dancing-1680-1725-downloadable-book-and-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/for-the-further-improvement-of-dancing-1680-1725-downloadable-book-and-2-cds#respond Sat, 14 Oct 2023 12:42:29 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=4971 Available as a digital download only. Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. The book of 122 pages is in three sections, researched and prepared by Anne Daye, Jørgen Schou-Pedersen and Dorothée Wortelboer respectively, for the DHDS summer school in 2002. The first section […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/for-the-further-improvement-of-dancing-1680-1725-downloadable-book-and-2-cds/feed 0 From Rout to Regency – Downloadable book and 2 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/from-rout-to-regency-dances-for-the-fashionable-assembly-in-britain-and-europe-downloadable-book-and-2-cds https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/from-rout-to-regency-dances-for-the-fashionable-assembly-in-britain-and-europe-downloadable-book-and-2-cds#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:51:14 +0000 https://historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=3850 From Rout to Regency: Dances for the Fashionable Assembly in Britain and Europe Available as a digital download only. Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. The 122 page book is in three sections. Section 1 (dances 1-15) contains late eighteenth-century ballroom dances researched […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/from-rout-to-regency-dances-for-the-fashionable-assembly-in-britain-and-europe-downloadable-book-and-2-cds/feed 0 The First Refinement – Downloadable book and 3 CDs https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/the-first-refinement https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/the-first-refinement#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:59:55 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=2519 Available as digital download only.  Note that the book is supplied in PDF format and the CD tracks are supplied in MP3 format. The book is in three sections, each containing an introduction, step descriptions, dance descriptions and music notation. The French Connection by Ellis and Christine Rogers  (CD1  and CD2 tracks 16-18 accompanies this […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/the-first-refinement/feed 0 Dances for Jane Austen – Book with CD https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-for-jane-austen https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-for-jane-austen#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:16:47 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=504 Jane Austen’s brother Henry recorded that ‘Jane was fond of dancing, and excelled in it’. The ballroom and assembly scenes in her novels were based on first-hand experience, but she rarely specified the dances. The selection given here goes a little closer to the dances she knew, particularly by making fuller use of the Austen […]

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]]> https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/dances-for-jane-austen/feed 0 More Dances for Jane Austen – Book with CD https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/more-dances-for-jane-austen https://historicaldance.org.uk/product/more-dances-for-jane-austen#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:15:56 +0000 https://development.historicaldance.org.uk/?post_type=product&p=503 More Dances for Jane Austen is a sequel to Dances for Jane Austen. This collection continues in the same spirit, offering a typical repertoire from the Regency age. There are several direct connections to Jane Austen herself in the country dances, and some in the cotillons, which are identified in the Contextual Information on Dances. The book, […]

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