The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830 - Hardcover

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<b>A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington.</b><br><br>This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the&#160;sartorial elegance of&#160;Beau Brummell and the poetic license of Lord Byron; Britain&#39;s military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the&#160;threat of revolution and the Peterloo&#160;massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of&#160;<i>Time Traveler&#39;s Guides,&#160;</i>Ian&#160;Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British&#160;history: the Regency, or Georgian England.<br> <br> A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of&#160;the stifling world of&#160;Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods&#160;in history, it was an age of many contradictions&#8212;where Beethoven&#39;s thundering Fifth&#160;Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen&#160;craft the delicate sensitivities of&#160;<i>Persuasion</i>.<br> <br> Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they&#160;shopped and how they&#160;amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they feared. Conveying the sights, sounds, and&#160;smells of the Regency period, this is history&#160;at its most exciting, physical, visceral&#8212;the past not as something to be studied but as&#160;lived experience.

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