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The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain
- The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain
- Narrated by: Ian Mortimer
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
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In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides - after the Middle Ages, Elizabethan England and Restoration Britain - Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most loved period in British history: the Regency (a.k.a. Georgian England). Bookended by the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the death of George IV in 1830, 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 and 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; it was dominated by population growth, urbanisation and industrialisation, fear of social unrest and demands for political reform. 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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- Ally Rice-Finlayson
- 02-02-2022
Such a great book
Amazing! I’ve been listening to this book in bits and pieces for months and it’s so easy to listen to. I haven’t listened to the others in the series, but I’ll definitely be getting them.
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- Vanessa Young
- 26-11-2020
Fascinating social history
If you love social history, this a must read/ listen. I have rarely had as much enjoyment from a book of this type and will be buying the author's other works.
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- Philippa
- 10-03-2024
Interesting and relevant
Loved every minute. Well narrated and fascinating presentation of history. Going to read the remaining books in the series
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- Jennifer Shoesmith
- 13-05-2024
Excellent and very enjoyable
If you haven’t listened to the previous titles in this series, I recommend that you do. I’ve enjoyed all of them.
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