Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine,

Britain's best-selling history magazine. I'm Ellic Hawthorne. In today's episode you'll be hearing from the historian and author Emily Brandt who's speaking about the Regency era for the latest episode in our

Everything You Wanted to Know series. Putting your questions on the topic to Emily, along

with some of the most popular online searches, was our deputy

digital editor, Eleanor Evans.

Thanks so much for joining us today, Emily.

Thank you for having me back.

It's great to be here.

Fantastic. So as usual today, we'll cover the top questions put to Google along with some really excellent listener questions that have come in over the past few weeks.

And perhaps we could just start with the

most obvious question really the one most often put to Google on this topic what and

when was the Regency era okay so in our strict legal sense we're talking about the period from

1811 to 1820 when George the Prince of Wales who's the eldest son of George the third acts as the Prince of Wales, who's the eldest son of George the third, acts as the Prince

Regent when his father is incapacitated, really. He's declared mentally unfit to rule due to so-called

madness. So it's almost a decade there. And it's until

King George III dies in 1820 and the Prince Regent finally becomes King as

George the 4th. So that's where this name comes from, the

Regency, more properly probably the Regency period. But culturally

speaking, this label encompasses a lot more than that.

It's got much wider cultural reach and meaning.

And here the dates are a bit hazier.

They often stretches back to 1789.

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