Masha asked Ian Mortimer:

I've just started reading the TTG books (fascinating beyond measure, could say a lot more, but really would need the space of a couple of volumes for synonyms), but are there any plans for post-Regency guides? Victorian, etc.... By no means to rush anything (as the last one only came out last autumn, but I am a bit curious... Thank you so much for the excellent pieces of literature!

Ian Mortimer Dear Masha, thanks for your question and for your kind comment. The specific answer is that I am not planning any 'post-Regency'' TTGs. I wrote in the first and last vols about how the project was designed to make people try to understand our own time by coming to terms 'with at least two others'. I've now presented 4 periods. But as we approach the modern world, the contrasts are smaller, the surprises are fewer, the diversity of society is greater and the writing as well as the research is inevitably more complex (30 million people are harder to write about - as well as to know about - than 3 million). However, I do have plans for the TTG series in the future. Just don't hold your breath - I have other ideas that I will be turning into books over thenext 3-4 years. All the best, Ian

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