The Time Travellers Guide to Restoration Britain

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Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys s diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares How would you find your way around Where would you stay What would you wear Where might you be suspected of witchcraft Where would you be welcome This is an up close and personal look at Britain between the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and the end of the century The last witch is sentenced to death just two years before Isaac Newton s Principia Mathematica, the bedrock of modern science, is published Religion still has a severe grip on society and yet some including the king flout every moral convention they can find There are great fires in London and Edinburgh the plague disappears a global trading empire develops.Over these four dynamic decades, the last vestiges of medievalism are swept away and replaced by a tremendous cultural flowering Why are half the people you meet under the age of twenty one What is considered rude And why is dueling so popular Mortimer delves into the nuances of daily life to paint a vibrant and detailed picture of society at the dawn of the modern world as only he can. Read The Time Travellers Guide to Restoration Britain – kino-fada.fr With this book, Dr Mortimer once again takes his readers into a fascinating era of English history In doing so he relates things most readers would not see in a normal history book In this entry into his Time Travelers Guide series, the author looks at Restoration England The time covered in this narrative is 1662 to roughly 1700 As with the other books in this series, the format is a literally a travel guide to the period The author looks at almost every aspect of everyday life that a re With this book, Dr Mortimer once again takes his readers into a fascinating era of English history In doing so he relates things most readers would not see in a normal history book In this entry into his Time Travelers Guide series, the author looks at Restoration England The time covered in this narrative is 1662 to roughly 1700 As with the other books in this series, the format is a literally a travel guide to the period The author looks at almost every aspec...Sadly, even with all of our modern technologies, amenities, and comforts we still have not created a time machine to travel back to the past Luckily, we have historian Ian Mortimer to help us out with his Time Traveler s Guides Having already journeyed into Medieval and Elizabethan times Mortimer now turns to the seventeenth century in, The Time Traveler s Guide to Restoration Britain.Those readers whom have previously donned their cloaks and have already t...I m lost in admiration for Ian Mortimer His third Time Traveller s guide, this time to Restoration Britain, and it is superb.The Handbook style works perfectly we get advice on everything we d need to know if we were to find ourselves back in time His writing is vivid, often funny and always accessible you are so thoroughly entertained that you don t realise how much you are learning.I can t begin to imagine the research and scholarship that has gone into writing a book like this Warn eve I m lost in admiration for Ian Mortimer His third Time Traveller s guide, this time to Restoration Britain, and it is superb.The Handbook style works perfectly we get advice on everything we d need to know if we were to find ourselves back in time His writing is vivid, often ...Not as dry as I d feared I m not that interested in this period of history, but the author did make it come alive.Absolutely brilliant I listened to the audiobook and the narration was really good I felt like I had visited this era in time The author made history come alive for me Very highly recommended.The next best thing to a Tardis is without doubt Ian Mortimer s Time Travellers series The third book in the series focuses on the Restoration period 1660 1700, a period of such importance to British history but sadly given very little attention.Mortimer travels throughout the country, into the homes of the rich and the poor, discussing the everyday life of various people Everything from the social hierarchy of the period along with crime and punishment, entertainment, medicine and theatre are The next best thing to a Tardis is without doubt Ian Mortimer s Time Travellers series The third book in the series focuses on the Restoration period 1660 1700, a period of such importance to British history but sadly given very little attention.Mortimer travels throughout the country, into the homes of the rich and the poor, discussing the everyday life of various people Everything from the social hierarchy of the period along with crime and punishment, entertainment, medicine and theatre are discussed And major events such as the Great Fire are explores through detail and how i...This is a highly enjoyable portrayal of life in Britain in the 17th century While not fully comprehensive, it ranges widely over all aspects of daily life, including housing, clothing, food, medical care, justice, entertainment, and that quintessential feature of British culture, social class.The style is very much that of a personal lecture, of Ian Mortimer talking to you with all his dry mannerisms, one on one It is personal, close, and often very confrontational It was a harsh time, and as This is a highly enjoyable portrayal of life in Britain in the 17th century While not fully comprehensive, it ranges widely over all aspects of daily life, including housing, clothing, food, medical care, justice, entertainment, and that quintessential feature of British culture, social class.The style is very much that of a personal lecture, of Ian Mortimer talking to you with all his dry mannerisms, one on one It is personal, close, and...Done in the style of a travel guide, this is an informative and entertaining look at life in post Interregnum Britain Mortimer s writing brings the era to life and provides lots of intriguing little titbits about folk from all levels of society.Excellent Love this series So interesting1113 notes highlights As you can probably tell, I LOVED THIS BOOK A really comprehensive, interesting and actually quite gripping look at a fascinating period in history One of those force it on random strangers while grinning inanely type books.Man, Mortim...

The Time Travellers Guide to Restoration Britain
  • 20 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 464 pages
  • 1847923046
  • Ian Mortimer
  • The Time Travellers Guide to Restoration Britain