Excellent... Mortimers erudition is formidable The TimesA time of exuberance thrills frills and unchecked bad behaviour...Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the mostloved 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 Britains 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 Beethovens 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 timetravelling prowess.Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his speciality Daily Mail