“The Time Traveller’s Guide To Regency Britain” by Ian Mortimer (2020)

“As your ship approaches the south coast of England, you’ll be looking out for land.”

Ian Mortimer is unlike other historians. To him, the Regency Period is not just about Jane Austen, Anne Lister, or Lord Byron. It’s about how much a Jane Austen novel would cost you, what Anne Lister did for underwear, or how Lord Byron would cut his toenails. This is history through the eyes of the people, not through dates, wars and coronations. His premise is thus: you’ve just travelled back in time, and thi...