The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:21st Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
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 MailIn 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.
What it was really like to live in the age of Austen, Byron and Waterloo?
Covering the years from the French Revolution to the death of George IV, this immersive guide asks what it actually felt like to travel through Regency Britain. What would you wear? What would you eat? How quickly could you travel? Where would you stay, and what happened if you became ill or fell foul of the law?
Behind the thrills and frills of the Regency age lay rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, population growth and political upheaval .New roads, canals and the early railways changed travel; consumer culture reshaped homes and clothing; policing and medicine transformed public life.
Allowing us a close look at street level, Ian Mortimer combines the practical details of everyday life with the larger social changes driving them. The result is a Regency Britain that is exuberant, unequal, inventive and already much closer to the modern world than its costumes suggest.
‘Excellent… Mortimer’s erudition is formidable’ The Times
‘Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his specialty’ 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 *
Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about criminals, disease, beggars and other late Georgian delights if you ever find yourself visiting the 1790s * Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year* *
[Mortimer] has already written guides to the medieval, Elizabethan and Restoration periods, and now he's bringing that same mix of telling anecdote and pithy research to Regency Britain, that funny wedge of time squeezed between the Georgians and the Victorians * Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday *
Thrilling...when you read it, you imagine yourself among your ancestors, and they are as awful and ingenious as we are * Tanya Gold, Daily Telegraph *
Excellent ... Mortimer's erudition is formidable, and he rarely writes a dull sentence ... Georgette Heyer's research for her novels would have been so much easier with this book on her shelf. As for Jane Austen, she would have found in its pages not only her own world, but other Regency worlds she probably never knew existed. And now, two hundred years later, so can we * The Times *
Every page of The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain is crammed with enlightening information * Daily Mail *
ISBN: 9781784705961
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
Weight: 327g
432 pages