The time traveller's guide to Regency Britain
Mortimer, Ian2020
Book
In this 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 (aka Georgian England). 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. 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.
Main title:
The time traveller's guide to Regency Britain / Ian Mortimer.
Author:
Mortimer, Ian, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2020.
Collation:
360 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781847924568 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.073
Language:
English
Related title:
The time traveller's guide to Regency Britain : a handbook for visitors to the years 1789-1830
Subject:
Great Britain -- History -- Regency, 1811-1820Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th centuryGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryGreat Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th centuryHistoryUnited Kingdom, Great BritainEuropean historyHistorySocial & cultural history
BRN:
493401