Today's bon bon: How to get a job in Regency Britain? Post an advert!

 If you wanted a position in Britain in the Regency period, you might apply to a registry in your home town. Registries took applications from those who wished to work as servants, companions, groomsmen or more. Any kind of servant in a household might register with the firm, the owners of which examined the applicant for references for good character and experience.

But another way to find a job was to take out an advertisement touting your capabilities. In these, you could declare how prim, proper, educated and eager you were for such a position.

Advertisements cost little. They also worked well because newspapers had wide circulations and they too cost as little as three pennies per copy.

Here is a sample of two ads, one taken by a lady and another by a man!