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

Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 October 2021
Pages
432
ISBN
9781784705961

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

Ian Mortimer

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

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

In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller’s Guides, 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; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain’s military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre.

A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour, it 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. 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.

Once more, 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. Conveying the sights, sounds and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.

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