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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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- Campesque
- 15-12-20
Pure pleasure from beginning to end.
This is the fourth century I have travelled in with Ian Mortimer and it is the best so far. Fascinating and thought provoking from beginning to end, with laugh out loud moments thrown in.
It's always a treat to listen to an author narrating their own book and Ian was a delight to listen to.
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- Robert Molloy
- 20-09-22
informative and entertaining
well read lots of interesting anecdotes that bring the history to life. Worth listening to.
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- Inna Barneva
- 02-04-22
A brilliant book
Very interesting and engaging book, full of interesting facts! I found it very captivating
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- cause-way
- 06-02-21
As always: sweeping coverage and compelling detail
I just hope he's been working away at the next one, instead of running around Dartmoor all day. An Anglo Saxon guide would be wonderful
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- p m wootton-davies
- 23-01-22
Time traveling
As usual Ian Mortimer’s time traveling is fascinating and so well narrated. A delight to be educated without effort
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- Miss A. M. Pinks
- 24-03-23
10 stars if I could
The amount of research this book must have taken is outstanding and it couldn't have been put together better. In the epilogue Ian advised it was over 4 years and his dedication in that time really shows. I loved it, very sad it's over, you spoke on behalf of everyone, rich, poor, animals, royalty and ladies of the night. I'd be very happy to read other books Ian has put together, thank you! I feel a loss that its now over.
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- Avt49
- 18-03-21
Brillant!
Loved this installment of Ian Mortimer's series as he narrates it himself and his passion for his subject really comes across.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-21
wonderful
what a beautiful , entertaining and informative book of an era gone. Thank you Ian Mortimer!
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- Steven Waite
- 25-04-22
Brilliant!
Incredible insight into how society once was.
I would highly recommend this audio book.
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- IsaacJolliffe
- 27-02-24
Enlightening
Clear info about the everyday details of life presented in and interesting and personal way
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