Our Tempestuous Day
A History of Regency England

On the one hand, this is a fascinating look at what you could call the "other side" of the Regency era (taking Georgette Heyer as popularizer of its bright, fashionable, elevated side). Erickson tells a story, and it reads like a story, spanning the years of the Regency, 1811 to 1820, touching on so......more

This is not your Jane Austen "Regency." It was a period marked by resentment among the working class, who saw their standard of living drop and hated Parliament and the rich who they saw as ignoring their sufferings. The "Luddites" were a lot more organized than I realized and the upper classes were......more

A really enjoyable book detailing the decade of English cultural history known as the Regency, for the time the future George IV ruled in place of the incapacitated George III. It saw great political upheaval (the Napoleonic Wars and Waterloo, the Peterloo Massacre, the Corn Laws, even the assassina......more

After reading many books about the particulars of life in the Regency, this book was an appreciated overview of the politics and major events that were actually happening during the period. I would have liked some descriptive chapter headings to help orient me, but, really, that's the ONLY problem I......more

A fun, breezy popular history of a thoroughly demented era with information and anecdotes about life amongst the downtrodden, the royals, and the Napoleonic wars.......more