The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain

Ian Mortimer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:21st Oct '21

£12.99

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The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain cover

'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times

A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England.

This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo. It was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality.

And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions - where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion.

This is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience. This is Ian Mortimer at the height of his time-travelling prowess.

'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality' Daily Mail

Mortimer's accessible guidebook format brings...[Regency Britain] vividly to life * History Revealed *
Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality. * Daily Mail *
[An] excellent book... Mortimer's erudition is formidable, and he rarely writes a dull sentence * Andrew Taylor, The Times, *Book of the Week* *
An entertaining and enlightening read * Choice Magazine *
[Mortimer] succeeds, rather brilliantly, in making a mass of information accessible and entertaining * Kate Hubbard, Oldie *

ISBN: 9781784705961

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm

Weight: 321g

432 pages