Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

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