Hi everybody and welcome to Dan Snow's History. I'm thrilled we got Ian Mortimer on the podcast. He's an absolute legend.

He's an independent scholar. He's his historian and he's written several best-selling books here in the UK and have done well all around the world as well.

He's got a Time Traveler's Guide series where he takes them at Evil England, other periods as well, and he's written his most recent one on Regency.

When the long 18th century now folks, this is my favourite period so I'm very very excited.

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Ian, thank you very much for coming on the podcast.

Well thank you very much for having me. This is Long Over Jew, one of Britain's best-selling, most famous historians.

I'm a apologies not having on you before. But you're a generous, you know everything about everything.

But we're going to talk about the Regency too. I never had you down as a Regency kind of guy.

This is really pushing me to the extremes of where I'm comfortable. I'm going to love the Regency.

I've always loved the Regency having grown up in a household in which sat at a Regency table on Regency chairs.

So it was part of our life and it was where my family's consciousness sort of started.

So we still had discussions around the dinner table when I was small about what we did in 1817

or what we did in 1825. And so it was very present with me. So I really wanted this to be the most

modern probably I could write of a time traveller's guide. But even so, the thing about a time traveller's

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