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    Jan 21, 2021 2 minutes

    The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain

    By Ian Mortimer

    Bodley Head, £20, hardback, 432 pages

    Following previous stops in the medieval, Elizabethan and Restoration periods, Ian Mortimer’s book series reaches the Regency era – the late-Georgian period here defined as stretching from 1789 to 1830. From the Industrial Revolution to the death of George IV

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