The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency...

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Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain

Ian Mortimer

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Vintage
21 October 2021

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history

Series: Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides

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

'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

By: Ian Mortimer
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 321g
ISBN: 9781784705961
ISBN 10: 1784705969
Series: Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 21 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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, and numerous scholarly books and articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2015. 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 in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

Reviews for The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain

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 *