'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times A time of exuberance thrills
frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved
period in British history - the Regency or Georgian England. This is the age of Jane Austen
and the Romantic poets the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton
Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo. It was perhaps the last age of true
freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. 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. This is history at its most exciting physical visceral - the past not as
something to be studied but as lived experience. This is Ian Mortimer at the height of his
time-travelling prowess. 'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his
speciality' Daily Mail
