The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer

'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 *

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

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ISBN 13	9781784705961
ISBN 10	1784705969
Title	The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain
Author	Ian Mortimer
Series	Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2021-10-21
Number of pages	432
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