The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer
Travelling to Restoration Britain encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life and this unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world.
Ian Mortimer is among the best: a conjuror who is always bright, engaging and well-informed… Any tour of late 17th-century Britain is guaranteed to be exhilaratingAnd with Mortimer in charge, one always travels first class -- John Adamson * Mail on Sunday *
Ian Mortimer is a historical truffle hound… The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain is just such fun to read… Mortimer writes with real freshness and enthusiasm,... His book is a delightful read. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *
This entertaining tourist guide brings the late 17th century alive…The latest Time Traveller’s Guide will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this extraordinary period -- Andrew Taylor * The Times *
Thoroughly entertaining… It is crammed with insights, facts and enjoyable anecdotes, which create a sense of the experience of living in Britain between 1660 and 1700… This is a compelling book and one of considerable erudition… This is the book that will provide the most richly colourful account of Britain in this period -- William Gibson * History Today *
Everything you wanted to know about these fair isles between 1660 and 1700... Exciting times. -- John Lewis-Stempel * Sunday Express *
Mortimer composes his vivid mosaic of life between 1660 and 1700 through the fancied experience of a time traveller -- Christopher Howse - summer read * Telegraph *
Entertaining and demotic rather than a work of scholarly nitpicking -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
When it comes to (armchair-based) time travel, he’s your man. If you have yet to experience his in-the-now approach to history, I envy you. What strange words and weird customs you will learn… Our guide’s treatment of the past is, as ever, a case of great knowledge worn lightly. He is by turns funny, scholarly, poignant and almost always fascinating… As a way of meeting our ancestors almost face to face, there is something magical about his writing -- Rebecca Armstrong * i *
Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure -- Sue Baker * Bookseller *
Enthralling and detailed -- Roger Lewis * Mail *
A fascinating and involving angle on history * Choice *
Words of contemporaries including Pepys, Mariner Edward Barlow and Celia Fiennes bring to life the changes of the period -- Kirsty Woods * Who Do You Think You Are? *
Irreverent, witty and beautifully democratic, this is a delight. -- Rebecca Armstrong * i *
A superb period to read about… Mortimer describes London brilliantly with its old walls and teeming streets. -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
History at its most entertaining. -- PD Smith * Guardian *
Ian Mortimer is a historical truffle hound… The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain is just such fun to read… Mortimer writes with real freshness and enthusiasm,... His book is a delightful read. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *
This entertaining tourist guide brings the late 17th century alive…The latest Time Traveller’s Guide will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this extraordinary period -- Andrew Taylor * The Times *
Thoroughly entertaining… It is crammed with insights, facts and enjoyable anecdotes, which create a sense of the experience of living in Britain between 1660 and 1700… This is a compelling book and one of considerable erudition… This is the book that will provide the most richly colourful account of Britain in this period -- William Gibson * History Today *
Everything you wanted to know about these fair isles between 1660 and 1700... Exciting times. -- John Lewis-Stempel * Sunday Express *
Mortimer composes his vivid mosaic of life between 1660 and 1700 through the fancied experience of a time traveller -- Christopher Howse - summer read * Telegraph *
Entertaining and demotic rather than a work of scholarly nitpicking -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
When it comes to (armchair-based) time travel, he’s your man. If you have yet to experience his in-the-now approach to history, I envy you. What strange words and weird customs you will learn… Our guide’s treatment of the past is, as ever, a case of great knowledge worn lightly. He is by turns funny, scholarly, poignant and almost always fascinating… As a way of meeting our ancestors almost face to face, there is something magical about his writing -- Rebecca Armstrong * i *
Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure -- Sue Baker * Bookseller *
Enthralling and detailed -- Roger Lewis * Mail *
A fascinating and involving angle on history * Choice *
Words of contemporaries including Pepys, Mariner Edward Barlow and Celia Fiennes bring to life the changes of the period -- Kirsty Woods * Who Do You Think You Are? *
Irreverent, witty and beautifully democratic, this is a delight. -- Rebecca Armstrong * i *
A superb period to read about… Mortimer describes London brilliantly with its old walls and teeming streets. -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
History at its most entertaining. -- PD Smith * Guardian *
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. His work on the social history of medicine was published by the Royal Historical Society and won the Alexander Prize.
Mortimer is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He also writes historical novels. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847923042 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847923046 |
| Title | The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain |
| Author | Ian Mortimer |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-04-06 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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