Author:Tristram Hunt
'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. Wilson
This is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain's greatest civic renaissance.
Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance - commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.
Mortimer's accessible guidebook format brings...[Regency Britain] vividly to life
—— History RevealedIan 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, OldieIan 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 SundayThrilling...when you read it, you imagine yourself among your ancestors, and they are as awful and ingenious as we are
—— Tanya Gold, Daily TelegraphExcellent ... 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 TimesEvery page of The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain is crammed with enlightening information
—— Daily MailAs entertaining as it is inventive
—— Harry Adams , YorkPut 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
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