The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain

Mortimer, Ian

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A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour, the Regency period was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic and political change; it was dominated by population growth, urbanisation and industrialisation, fear of social unrest and demands for political reform. Here, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in and what they were afraid of.

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Publish Date: 21/10/2021

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‘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

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Weight 321 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 26 mm
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Paperback

Pages

x, 416 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

941.073 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K