The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

Mortimer's accessible guidebook format brings...[Regency Britain] vividly to life

History Revealed

Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality.

Daily Mail

[An] excellent book... Mortimer's erudition is formidable, and he rarely writes a dull sentence

Andrew Taylor, The Times, *Book of the Week*

An entertaining and enlightening read

Choice Magazine

[Mortimer] succeeds, rather brilliantly, in making a mass of information accessible and entertaining

Kate Hubbard, Oldie

Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about criminals, disease, beggars and other late Georgian delights if you ever find yourself visiting the 1790s

Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*

[Mortimer] has already written guides to the medieval, Elizabethan and Restoration periods, and now he's bringing that same mix of telling anecdote and pithy research to Regency Britain, that funny wedge of time squeezed between the Georgians and the Victorians

Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

Thrilling...when you read it, you imagine yourself among your ancestors, and they are as awful and ingenious as we are

Tanya Gold, Daily Telegraph

Excellent ... Mortimer's erudition is formidable, and he rarely writes a dull sentence ... Georgette Heyer's research for her novels would have been so much easier with this book on her shelf. As for Jane Austen, she would have found in its pages not only her own world, but other Regency worlds she probably never knew existed. And now, two hundred years later, so can we

The Times

Every page of The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain is crammed with enlightening information

Daily Mail

As entertaining as it is inventive

Harry Adams, York

Put away your Austen: this eye-popping microhistory spares no detail of the slums, squalor and bad dentistry of Regency Britain; a lost world springs from the page

Daily Telegraph