RETURN TO "A WARM WELCOME" - WE BAT A THOUSAND

If you’ve arrived at this page, you must share our interest in all things Georgian, Regency and Victorian, as well as our passion for the England of today. How many of the 999 previous blog posts we've published have you read?  Have you been with us from the start in March 2010?

When Kristine and Victoria started this blog, we had no idea how central it would become to our lives...almost everything that happens to either of us is considered possible fodder for a post.   Articles in magazines, tweets, newspapers, art exhibitions, books, dinners, plays, concerts, movies...would it work for Number One London???  A London connection -- anything vaguely British will do.  But we've also learned a lot from our wanderings on the web and elsewhere. Geography and history foremost among them.  Eccentricities are our favorite -- or wait!  Maybe posts on actors from the old days.  Or do we really prefer some of the new actors like Benedict or Jude or Orlando.  Double wait -- what about Colin and Sean and Alan?

But let's get back to the basics.  We like to research, write, and dream about the Duke of Wellington.
And now we're planning and leading the Duke of Wellington Tour next September.  You are cordially invited to accompany us, meeting up on the 4th of September in London, and visiting around Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire until we depart on September 14 from Windsor, with transfers to Heathrow included. For all the details, click here.


Highclere Castle, aka Downton Abbey

Among the highlights of the Duke of Wellington Tour will be a visit to Highclere Castle, where the popular series Downton Abbey is filmed. We can't wait to see the grounds and the elegant interiors with their fine paintings and antiques.

Counting our shared 2010 trip to Britain and the Battlefield of Waterloo in Belgium, we've reported on six trips to England...sharing our pictures and experiences with our readers. 


At the site of the Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 2010

Here's how we started:

Having written The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, Kristine Hughes has spent the last several years researching her next book, a true opus that will focus on fashionable daily life as experienced by the ladies of London 1700 – 1900.  Victoria Hinshaw has published eight Regency-set novels and three novellas with Kensington Zebra. She is working on several more projects associated with the Georgian era but she admits to a real delight in the Victorian period, since it is hers. Whatever motivated her parents to choose the name Victoria, she has always believed that there exists a mystical tie between the Great Queen and her.

Victoria and Kristine originally named this blog Research England, for that is our vocation and avocation. But we are not deeply academic, and our mischievous senses of humor crept into our posts. So we decided to start over as Number One London (found at onelondonone.blogspot.com). We originally promised lots of research oriented material, considerable travel  reporting, and amusing incidents, all accompanied by occasional asides, nonsense and bon mots.

 Have we succeeded?  Let us know!




Victoria and Kristine look forward to continuing our acquaintance. Please visit often!