I’m still pecking away at the Morland Dynasty books by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles and still recommend them! If you like Regency romances, or anything Napoleonic War related, Master & Commander, or whatever, you might like this series a lot. It has solid historical research behind it, which I find very satisfying and also alluring (It leads me to fall into giant Wikipedia sinkholes.) I’m on #16, The Devil’s Horse, which is very exciting as railways (tramways really) are just starting to be a Thing. There are more scenes in Manchester & some mention of Castlereagh (and his wife Emily or Lady Castlereagh, who you may recall from your Regencies was a Lady Patroness of Almack’s who could get you vouchers) and Canning. Lady C: “Her own parties were considered dull, and her manner was somewhat eccentric: guests described her conversation as an endless flow of trivial information delivered in an oddly detached manner.” I like her already. I hope she had a lot to say about trains.
There are lots of scandalous and miserable events – affairs, deaths (maybe murders – I have THOUGHTS about Flaminia).
Also reading How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, which is great! More details when I finish it.
I also re-read Archivist Wasp and the sequel to it, and T. Kingfisher’s Swordheart. Not reading quite as much as usual lately because I’m thinking about Inform7 so much.
The Morland Dynasty books are available super-cheap on Kobo, to my surprise! I will at least try the first.
The beginning ones are interesting but they warm up quite a lot by book 9 and 10 (french revolution and then napoleon) So I am recommending starting there if you are a Regency fan and then go back and read the others as prequels.
One content warning, some of the earlier ones are heavy on the incest themes but somehow people quit it by 1800 (thankfully as I thought it a bit squicky)