Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's

best-selling History Magazine.

I'm Ellie Corporn.

In today's episode, you'll be hearing from the historian Ian Mortimer.

He's the author of a series of time-travelers guides that take readers into the streets,

smells and experiences of different eras.

And his latest is a guide to Regency Britain.

Though popular depictions of the era often focus on the middle and upper-class worlds, such

as those depicted by Jane Austen.

But the chasm between rich and poor at this time was hugely significant and can't be ignored.

Pushing the questions to Ian was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans.

So your time-travelers guide to Regency Britain tells readers everything they need to know

about many elements of the Georgian era, such as criminals to seize beggars, hardship

and inequality, for example.

But perhaps that isn't the first thing we think about when we think about this era.

Perhaps thanks to Austin, thanks to Regency architecture and so on.

Can you introduce listeners to your book and your approach to the era?

Yeah.

Now, the idea of a time-travelers guide is that you actually can go there and see it

for yourself.

So if you could go to Regency Britain, what you can see, what you can eat, what you can

smell, and how people are going to treat you, which diseases might affect you, which doctors

...